A THOUSAND FACES: THE LON CHANEY MUSICAL & More Set for Skyline Theatre Company 2023 Season

The season will also feature A NIGHTMARE ON BROADWAY in October, and more.

By: Mar. 17, 2023

A THOUSAND FACES: THE LON CHANEY MUSICAL & More Set for Skyline Theatre Company 2023 Season

Skyline Theatre Company, a 20-year-old professional theatre company previously calling Bergen County its home, will present its 2023 season in Bloomfield at the Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center, 240 Belleville Avenue.

The first special event of Skyline's 2023 season in Bloomfield, BROADWAY IN THE WORKS, will be a one-night-only staged reading of a new musical in development: "A Thousand Faces: The Lon Chaney Musical" on Friday, April 21 at 7:00pm. This event is part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's 2023 Stages festival, a state-wide spring festival of free and low-cost theatre events for all ages. Thanks to the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, of which Skyline Theatre Company is a long-time member, admission for BROADWAY IN THE WORKS is free. Reservations are recommended and can be made in advance at Skyline's online box office: Click Here

"A Thousand Faces: The Lon Chaney Musical" -- developed with the cooperation and participation of the subject's own great-grandson Ron Chaney -- tells the incredible true and heart-warming biographical story of the pioneering silent movie star who changed the face of film. Born to deaf parents who didn't speak, Lon learns at an early age to communicate through facial expressions and pantomime. With their son in tow, Lon performs with his charismatic first wife as a song and dance man in vaudeville houses across the country. When a family scandal destroys his theater career and results in a bitter divorce, Lon must quickly find work and establish a stable home or lose his son. He turns to the budding silent film industry transforming himself with incredible depth and humanity into characters living on the fringe. Lon shoots to international fame as the star of over 150 films, including the original Hunchback of Notre Dame and Phantom of the Opera. He struggles to meet the demands of career, along with those as a father, as talking pictures sweep the nation.

Sam Scalamoni, Skyline Theatre Company's co-founder and artistic director, directs the staged reading. "A Thousand Faces: The Lon Chaney Musical" has a book by Eric Lane, music by Rachel Devore Fogarty, and lyrics by Kevin Fogarty.

"All of us at Skyline Theatre Company are thrilled to bring live professional theatre back to Bloomfield!" says Artistic Director Sam Scalamoni. "Our 2023 season at Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center in partnership with the Township of Bloomfield promises to be an exciting one and we look forward to welcoming area theatre lovers to Oakeside to see professional theatre right in their own backyard."

BROADWAY IN THE WORKS is made possible by support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey; OceanFirst Foundation; Fund for the New Jersey Blind; and Customers Bank. For more information on New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Stages Festival, visit njtheatrealliance.org/stages.

The rest of Skyline Theatre Company's 2023 season in Bloomfield kicks off this fall with BROADWAY IN CONCERT: WORKING THE MUSICAL, a NYC Encores-style concert of Broadway's musical celebration of the American worker featuring music by Stephen Schwartz, James Taylor, Lin-Manuel Miranda and others. The performance is Saturday, September 16 at 7:00pm.

The season continues in A NIGHTMARE ON BROADWAY on Sunday, October 29 at 4:00pm for a fa-BOO-lous afternoon with the family for a ghoulishly fun musical revue recognizing Broadway's most thrilling and chilling showtunes and wickedly fun tales of the Halloween season.

The final season event is HOLIDAY CAROLS & STORIES, a jolly fun and musical afternoon of sing-alongs, carols, and holiday stories suitable for kids from 1 to 92, on Sunday, December 10 at 4:00pm.

Tickets are available to reserve in advance through Skyline's website and online box office at SkylineTheatreCompany.org. Tickets range from $15 to $25.

About Skyline Theatre Company

Founded in 1995, Skyline Theatre Company's mission is to bring together professional artists to create quality theatre that entertains and inspires an audience. We make commitments to the education of young people in all aspects of the arts and to cultivating and nurturing new artists and their works.




RELATED STORIES - New Jersey

1
3rd Annual DINING OUT JERSEY FOODIE EXPO Will Feature North Jerseys Best Food And Entertai Photo
3rd Annual DINING OUT JERSEY FOODIE EXPO Will Feature North Jersey's Best Food And Entertainment

Dining Out Media LLC will be hosting the 3rd Annual Dining Out Jersey Foodie Expo on Monday July 10, 2023, from 6 - 10 p.m. at The Terrace at Biagio's in Paramus, N.J. The event will feature North Jersey's best restaurants, gourmet food shops, craft beer, wine, spirits, entertainment, as well as celebrity guests, including NBC's 'Produce Pete' Napolitano and Celebrity Chef David Burke.

2
SELLING KABUL, SATELLITES & More Set for Premiere Stages at Kean Universitys 2023 Seas Photo
SELLING KABUL, SATELLITES & More Set for Premiere Stages at Kean University's 2023 Season

Premiere Stages at Kean University has revealed its 2023 season, featuring multiple new plays that explore the need for human connection.

3
HAND TO GOD Opens This Week At Nutley Little Theatre Photo
HAND TO GOD Opens This Week At Nutley Little Theatre

Nutley Little Theatre presents the hysterically irreverent twisted comedy, HAND TO GOD, opening this Friday, June 9th, and continuing through June 24th.

4
Exclusive Edward Albee Series Continues with MARRIAGE PLAY and FINDING THE SUN Photo
Exclusive Edward Albee Series Continues with MARRIAGE PLAY and FINDING THE SUN

The Black Box, Northern NJ's incubator for new and under produced works from world-class artists, is proud to announce that EDWARD ALBEE: FROM A TO ZOO will continue on Wednesday June 28th at 7:30PM with FINDING THE SUN (1987) and MARRIAGE PLAY (1987).

More Hot Stories For You

Videos


#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# The Rose Tattoo
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (5/31-6/18)Tracker
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Round and Round the Garden
duCret Center of Art (6/22-6/25)Tracker
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Icons: A Tribute To Frankie Valli & Johnny Maestro
Sieminski Theater (6/10-6/10)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Mike Burdick's Stages of Madness
CDC Theatre (6/15-6/17)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# And A Nightingale Sang...
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (7/12-7/30)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Broadway's Lillias White in Concert
Axelrod Performing Arts Center (8/20-8/20)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# TROUBADOURS: A CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR TRIBUTE
Sieminski Theater (6/24-6/24)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Blithe Spirit
The Lord Stirling Theater Company (6/02-6/11)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Boyd Meets Girl
Trinity Church (6/15-6/15)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Jesus Christ Superstar
State Theatre New Jersey (6/09-6/11)
VIEW ALL SHOWS  ADD A SHOW  

Recommended For You