John Fico News

Prospect Theater Company's critically-acclaimed Off Broadway production of Iron Curtain, originally scheduled to run through November 27, 2011, will instead play through December 4. A post-performance talkback with members of the creative team and cast will be held at the theater following the Wednesday, November 30 matinee.

Known primarily for their excellent work with the Prospect Theatre Company (of which she is Producing Artistic Director and he is Resident Writer), the husband and wife team of director/bookwriter Cara Reichel and composer/lyricist/bookwriter Peter Mills are responsible for some of the most exciting and innovative musical theatre New York has seen since the company was founded in 1998.  And I daresay that with Iron Curtain, they and their inspired cohorts fully succeed in presenting one of their most difficult and risk-taking concepts yet; a fast, loud and funny 1950s-style musical comedy.

Just like Pope Paul VI figured when The Vatican told followers to go ahead and celebrate mass in the vernacular, John-Michael Tebelak figured that if the musical he penned with Stephen Schwartz, based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew, was going to connect with young people, it had to be done in their language.  So when Godspell premiered Off-Broadway forty years ago, the son of God and his disciples were depicted as soft pop and folk singing flower children who were too busy learning how to spread love to be bothered with sex, drugs and burning their draft cards.  Arriving on Broadway after Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, it was the first major rock musical that didn't scare the hell out of parents.

Prospect Theater Company will present by special arrangement with Fireboat Productions a new Off Broadway production of the 2006 hit musical Iron Curtain, winner of the Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical.

Todd Alan Johnson, whose credits include Broadway's Aida, Off Broadway's NEWSical and the national tour of Les Miserables, will join the cast of Prospect Theater Company's upcoming Off Broadway production of Iron Curtain. He replaces Marcus Neville, who has withdrawn from the production due to a scheduling conflict.

Prospect Theater Company will present by special arrangement with Fireboat Productions a new Off Broadway production of the 2006 hit musical Iron Curtain, winner of the Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical.

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director/Melissa Huber, Managing Director), one of New York's leading not-for-profit producers of new musicals, will present by special arrangement with Fireboat Productions a new Off Broadway production of the 2006 hit musical Iron Curtain, winner of the Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical.

Rosebud Baker, one of the stars of the upcoming Sundance Channel original series "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys" will star in a staged reading of Monica Bauer's The Maternal Instinct on Monday, December 6th at 7pm at the WorkShop Theater's Main Stage (Baker also won the Best Actress in One Act Play Award in this past summer's Planet Connections Theatre Festivity).

A marriage between two plays about marriage, one gay, and one straight, BALLS! The Testosterone Plays of Monica Bauer will have a limited run at the WorkShop Theater's Main Stage from November 19th thru December 5th.

Rosebud Baker, one of the stars of the upcoming Sundance Channel original series "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys" will star in a staged reading of Monica Bauer's The Maternal Instinct on Monday, December 6th at 7pm at the WorkShop Theater's Main Stage (Baker also won the Best Actress in One Act Play Award in this past summer's Planet Connections Theatre Festivity).

A marriage between two plays about marriage, one gay, and one straight, BALLS! The Testosterone Plays of Monica Bauer will have a limited run at the WorkShop Theater's Main Stage from November 19th thru December 5th.

A marriage between two plays about marriage, one gay, and one straight, BALLS! The Testosterone Plays of Monica Bauer will have a limited run at the WorkShop Theater's Main Stage from November 19th thru December 5th.

A marriage between two plays about marriage, one gay, and one straight, BALLS! The Testosterone Plays of Monica Bauer will have a limited run at the WorkShop Theater's Main Stage from November 19th thru December 5th.

Karen Tortora-Lee & The Happiest Medium are pleased to announce their first anniversary party THE HAPPIEST MEDIUM (In 3-D), hosted by Franca Vercelloni of the 2010 FringeNYC hit Classically Trained Practically Broke.

Karen Tortora-Lee & The Happiest Medium are pleased to announce their first anniversary party THE HAPPIEST MEDIUM (In 3-D), hosted by Franca Vercelloni of the 2010 FringeNYC hit Classically Trained Practically Broke.

A marriage between two plays about marriage, one gay, and one straight, BALLS! The Testosterone Plays of Monica Bauer will have a limited run at the WorkShop Theater's Main Stage from November 19th thru December 5th.

A marriage between two plays about marriage, one gay, and one straight, BALLS! The Testosterone Plays of Monica Bauer will have a limited run at the WorkShop Theater's Main Stage from November 19th thru December 5th.

Erik Liberman (LoveMusik on Broadway, Reefer Madness in LA - Ovation Award-winner) and Michelle Pruiett (The Little Mermaid) are set to star in the 2010 New York Musical Theater Festival production of THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING YOU EVER HOID, a satirical Marx Brothers musical romp which will run at Urban Stages from September 30th thru October 12th.

Erik Liberman (LoveMusik on Broadway, Reefer Madness in LA - Ovation Award-winner) and Michelle Pruiett (The Little Mermaid) are set to star in the 2010 New York Musical Theater Festival production of THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING YOU EVER HOID, a satirical Marx Brothers musical romp which will run at Urban Stages from September 30th thru October 12th.

The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially-conscious theatre festival, invites you to celebrate the great talents and achievements of our amazing 2010 artists! You are invited to attend The Planet Connections Awards Ceremony, Sunday, August 1st at 7:00pm at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street?A, C, E, B, D, F, V to West 4th Street ).