Uptown Players' SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD Begins Tonight

Uptown Players continues its 2013 season with its version of the musical Songs for a New World, written by Tony Award winning Composer and Lyricist, Jason Robert Brown. The production runs tonight, June 21 through July 7, 2013, at the Kalita Humphreys Theater.

Songs for a New World is a musical exploration of life's emotions: risk, fear, hope, dreams and love. As composer Jason Robert Brown said, "It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back." It's about those moments in life when everything seems perfect and then suddenly disaster strikes. But it's even more about surviving those moments. It's about the way we regroup and figure out how to survive in a new set of circumstances - a new world - even against seemingly overwhelming odds.

These are songs about that new world, a world in which the definitions of family, distance, money, technology, the very nature of human contact is changing every day, a world in which the rules don't apply as often as they do, a world in which the solutions our parents found don't work for us, and a world in which today's answers probably won't apply tomorrow. For someone who has lost his job or lost a spouse, our everyday world becomes just as frightening, just as dangerous, just as uncharted as the New World was to Columbus.

The cast includes Feleceia Benton, Jonathan Bragg, John Campione, Peter DiCesare, Danielle Estes, Walter Lee, Laura Lites, and Sara Shelby-Martin. The production is directed by Coy Covington, with music direction by Kevin Gunter.

The production runs tonight, June 21 through July 7, 2013, with shows at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays (no performances June 23 or July 4). Performances take place at the Kalita Humphreys Theatre, 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd (at Blackburn), Dallas, TX 75219. Tickets are $30-$40 and can be purchased online at www.uptownplayers.org or by phone at (214) 219-2718.