Hot Mess in Manhattan: The Musical, featuring music by 12 of today's musical theatre composers, will perform a limited run August 30-September 8 at The American Theatre of Actors (314 W. 54th Street NYC) as a part of the second annual Araca Project. Check out photos of the cast in rehearsal below!
Hot Mess in Manhattan: The Musical is a high-heeled, low-brow musical comedy following one 20-something woman trying to conquer the big city the only way she knows how: the Way of Carrie Bradshaw. Armed with one worn-out pair of Blahniks and a score featuring a dozen of musical theater's hottest new composers, she is met with her greatest fear: if 'Sex and the City' LIED, then what's to become of a Hot Mess in Manhattan?The score features songs by some of New York's hottest emerging musical theatre writers, including Kait Kerrigan & Brian Lowdermilk (Henry & Mudge, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown), Adam Gwon (2008 Fred Ebb Award Winner, Ordinary Days, The Boy Detective Fails), Ryan Scott Oliver (Richard Rodgers Award, Playwrights Horizons' Mrs. Sharp, 35MM), Julianne Wick Davis (2012 Larson Award Winner;Southern Comfort, Wood), Gaby Alter (Nobody Loves You, Band Geeks, 2008 Larson Award Winner), Nick Blaemire (Glory Days), Sam Carner & Derek Gregor (Richard Rodgers Award, Unlock'd), Ryan Cunningham & Joshua Salzman (I Love You Because), Drew Gasparini (Crazy, Just Like Me), Michael Mahler (Hero, How Can You Run with a Shell on Your Back?), and Keith Varney (I Got Fired!). Oliver, Gwon and Alter each received MAC Award nominations for Best Song for their contributions to previous incarnations of Hot Mess In Manhattan.
Jared Zirilli and Cait Doyle
Jared Zirilli and Cait Doyle
Jared Zirilli, Cait Doyle, and DJ Bucciarelli
DJ Bucciarelli, Cait Doyle and Jared Zirilli
Choreography Rehearsal! Cait Doyle, DJ Bucciarelli, and Jared Zirilli
Jared Zirilli, DJ Bucciarelli, Cait Doyle and James Cunningham (Hot Mess Musical Director)
Cait Doyle, Jared Zirilli and James Cunningham with Sam Carner (half of the duo behind "Sleep Song" written for "The Mess")
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