‘Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess’ Makes its World Premiere

‘Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess’ Makes its World Premiere
The New Colony’s Inaugural Production from Award-Winning Creative Team

The New Colony, Chicago’s new theater company dedicated entirely to World Premieres, will start its inaugural season with Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess, the next project from the award-winning creative team of James Asmus and Andrew Hobgood. Written by Asmus and directed by Hobgood, Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess is, “an escapist adventure fantasy, with a thoughtful underbelly,” says Asmus.

Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess unfolds the possible history of the expedition that actually found the legendary pilot living as a semi-amnesiatic jungle-woman. Shifting between wild jungle encounters and dangerous showdowns of business and politics, the story extrapolates the two sides of the Earhart mythos - as a daring pioneer and divisive feminist icon.

Asmus and Hobgood recently won the FringeNYC award for Outstanding Music & Lyrics with their critical and box office hit Love is Dead: A NecRomantic Musical Comedy. Hobgood won the Outstanding Musical award at FringeNYC in 2006 with 58! A Comedy about Bike Messengessengering which he co-created and produced.

“We founded The New Colony to create new theater that would matter to American audiences, as well as attract new, typically non-theater-going audiences,” explained Hobgood. “James and I saw Amelia as a great way to provide the exciting, visceral experience of live theater while intellectually exploring feminism and turn-of-the-century politics.”

Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess  is directed by Andrew Hobgood and Written by James Asmus. Featuring Nicole Pellegrino, Daniel Jessup, Kevin Stangler, Josh Odor, Michael Peters, Evan Linder, Benny Oyama and Nick Hernon.

Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess is produced in association with Nate Gardner, and Karen Davidov, fresh from the producing team behind Chicago’s Gutenberg! The Musical which recently enjoyed an extended run at the Royal George Theatre.

Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess will have previews September 26th & 27th at 8:00PM and will officially open on Monday September 29th at 8:00PM.  The Press Opening will be Thursday October 2nd at 8:00PM. The show will run Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00PM and Sundays at 7:00PM at The National Pastime Theater at 4139 N Broadway St. Closes November 2nd. 

Show Passes are $28 and $15 for Preview Passes. Industry/Student Show Passes are $15 and $8 for Preview Passes. Passes go on sale September 15th at www.thenewcolony.org or by calling 800.838.3006. All Passes to New Colony productions allow the purchaser to see the show for which the Pass was purchased an unlimited number of times.

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