Lynda Gravatt to Lead Cast of FOLLOW ME TO NELLIE'S at Premiere Stages, 7/14 - 31
By: Caryn Robbins
Examiner.com reports that Premiere Stages, which is celebrating its seventh year as the professional theatre in residence at Kean University, will premiere FOLLOW ME TO NELLIE'S by Dominique Morisseau this July.
The play opens Thursday, July 14th, in the Zella Fry Theatre and continues through Sunday, July 31st. The exceptional cast features veterans of Broadway, off-Broadway, television and film, including Lynda Gravatt in the title role. The play takes place in 1955 Mississippi, during the reign of segregation.
FOLLOW ME TO NELLIE'S is the winner of the 2011 Premiere Stages Play Festival and was selected from more than 300 submissions. The Festival features "a uniquely accelerated process" in which the region's most promising new plays are developed and fully produced within a year of submission. Playwrights are also afforded the opportunity to retain the coveted "world premiere" brand."In many professional theatres the time span between meeting a writer, staging a reading and producing the play can be years," notes artistic director John Wooten. "When we discover a dramatist we believe in, our play festival process allows Premiere Stages to fully commit the time, talent, and resources necessary to share that writer's work with a broad regional audience." Standard tickets are $25 with special rates for seniors, students, Kean alumni, groups and patrons with disabilities. The Premiere Package (a new subscription series) saves patrons up to $30.00 and includes discounts on restaurants and free admission to staged readings and other special events. For reservations (highly recommended) or to receive a brochure, please call the Kean University Box Office at (908)-737-SHOW (7469), or visit Premiere Stages online at www.kean.edu/premierestages
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