Kleban's SAVING THE MuSE Plays 6:00 Musical Theatre Lab, 6/28-29

This month, the Amas Six O'Clock Musical Theatre Lab will present SAVING THE MuSE (based on GALLERY), music and lyrics by the late Edward Kleban (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner for lyrics for A CHORUS LINE) and book by Linda Kline (Tony-nominated co-bookwriter of A CLASS ACT), developed and directed by Michael Bush. The Producing Artistic Director is Donna Trinkoff and the Music Director is Paul Wolfson.

The cast includes Cindy Cheung, Dee Hoty, Harris Duran, Andre Garner, Marcus Neville, Asa Nisenson, Destin Owens, Lois Robbins, and Jonathan Root.

The performances will be held on Monday, June 28 at 6PM and Tuesday, June 29 at 3PM and 7PM at Ripley-Grier Studios, 10th Floor (520 Eighth Avenue). For reservations, please call 212.563.2565 or e-mail amas@amasmusical.org. For more information, please visit www.amasmusical.org.

Passions run high at a museum tottering on the brink of financial disaster when the distinguished museum director, the powerful chairman of the board and an ambitious curator clash in a daring battle of wits.

Stirred into the mix are an avant-garde performance artist, a disgraced corporate executive, a museum guard with an unusual past, and a treasure trove of art, including masterpieces by Gauguin, Breugel, Lichtenstein, and Warhol. You'll never look at a painting in the same way again.

The Amas Six O'Clock Musical Theatre Lab is a development series for writers, lyricists and composers to mount staged readings of their new musicals.

SAVING THE MuSE is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and by the ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund, the BMI Foundation, the Barbara Bell Cummings Foundation, the Dramatists Guild, the Edith Meiser Fund, the Shubert Foundation, and through the generous support of many individuals.