An industry reading of CAFÉ BERLIN, a new musical set amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, will feature Broadway veterans Kim Onah, Danny Rutigliano, and Diva LaMarr, directed by Matthew Couvillon.
Café Berlin, will receive an industry presentation. Featuring music by Joseph J. Simeone, with a book and lyrics by Simeone, Ethan Kanfer, and Annaliese Jakimides, the piece is set in East Berlin as the Berlin Wall falls.
MasterVoices begins its 2019-20 season on Thursday, November 21 at Carnegie Hall with the concert staging of George and Ira Gershwins' 1933 musical Let 'Em Eat Cake, with a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, a comic satire about a populist U.S. President who is voted out of office and stages a coup to regain power. Artistic Director Ted Sperling will direct and conduct MasterVoices, soloists, and Orchestra of St. Luke's in this timely musical which has not been heard in New York since 1987. Updated casting details are included below.