Tony Nominee Ann Crumb Appears in Triangle on June 19

All Seasons Theatre Company will present a reading of Triangle, a new musical by Mark Barkan and June Rachelson-Ospa at Manhattan Theatre Club Studios on June 19, 2006 at 7:00pm. The reading will be directed by Robert W. McMaster with musical direction by David Shenton.

Triangle is a pointed musical comedy about two married shrinks who can't stand each other and their patients who develop triangular relationships in the waiting room. They include a woman who takes the urn of her dead husband everywhere, her dead husband's undertaker, a cross-dresser, a guy who's fresh out of the closet, and a sexy young unmarried woman.

The reading marks the second "pilot" for ASTC's Musicals in the Making Festival, which presented a reading of the rock-opera thriller Perfume, based on the cult novel by Patrick Suskind in the fall of 2004 at The Hackensack Cultural Arts Center. "Our goal is to present a yearly festival featuring three new musicals – two presented as readings and the other as a workshop," said Founder and Artistic Director Patrick Riviere. "We would like to present the festival for one week in Manhattan and one week in New Jersey." The reading of Triangle is supported, in part, by a small grant from The Independence Community Foundation.

Featured in the reading are Tony nominated actress Ann Crumb (Anna Karenina, Aspects of Love, Les Miz) as Rebecca; Grant Norman (Beauty and the Beast, Phantom) as Randy; and Shonn Wiley (42nd Street, Dracula, the Musical) as Guy. Rounding out the cast are Bridget Barkan, Gilbert Brady, Lisa Clayton and Kenneth Garner.

Composer Mark Barkan has written or co-written over 500 recorded songs and has had hits by such diversified artists as Nat King Cole, Connie Francis, ManfrEd Mann, Leslie Gore and Dusty Springfield. His one Broadway credit is the song "Weddings and Funerals", for Melvin Van Peebles' Waltz of the Stork. As a lyricist June Rachelson-Ospa is a Globe winner for Gone to Texas which just enjoyed a reading at The York Theatre and she has won the VSarts Playwright Discovery Award for the musical Tourettaville, which was co-written with her son Jonny and Daniel Neiden and performed for Congress at the Kennedy Center.

For more information visit www.allseasonstheatre.org or call 201-927-1799.