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LIGHTS & MUSIC: Off Broadway
Presented at: The 45th Street Theatre, 354 West 45th Street, NYC
Dates: Opening Night - Tuesday, July 22 and EXTENDED thru AUGUST 10, 2008
Executive Producers: John MacDonald & Maggie Maes
Director: JEREMY QUINN
Set Designer: Eleanor Taylor Bye
Costume Designer: Alex Argenti
Lighting Designer: Erich Bussing
Sound Designer: William Neal
Production Stage Manager: Stephanie Suski
Stage Manager: Vikki De Meo
Live Music and Sound Effects: Alex Kerpel
Starring: Patrick Letterii, Haley Rawson, John MacDonald, Lindsay Teed & Nicholas Bonnar
JOHN MACDONALD & MAGGIE MAES
proudly present
LIGHTS & MUSIC
written by Patrick C. Letterii
ABOUT THE PLAY...
Emotionally exciting and genuinely passionate, LIGHTS and MUSIC written by Patrick C. Letterii, tests the resilience of a post 9/11 generation. The entangled lives of four disenfranchised youths play out through the humorous, surprising and shocking cirumstances that draw them together and pull them apart.
LIGHTS and MUSIC is about a lost generation growing up in a chaotic and sometimes hopeless world; struggling with love, friendship & the absurdity of life in their small apartment microcosm. The only thing protecting them from the outside world IS their apartment; but when the world comes to them, they are forced to make a difficult decision in order to discover their place in all of this.
With rapid-fire, intelligent dialogue that poses the eternal question, "Are the choices we're making, the right choices?";the play caters to the plight of struggling "20 somethings" at a time in their lives where everything is uncertain, but decisiveness is paramount. In a labyrinth of choices and illusions; crisp and seductive language draws us in, exposing the truth and its evasions - keeping us guessing from start to finish, how this story of love, sex, friendship and betrayal will finally reach the end.
Originally workshopped at The Producers Club in NYC in January of 2008, "L & M" was OTB's first producing venture before it was picked up for an OFF BROADWAY run in the summer of 2008. After some rewrites, a couple cast changes and a whole lot of fundraising, LIGHTS and MUSIC opened on July 22, 2008 at the 45th Street Theatre in NYC.
With articles in Time Out New York and on BroadwayWorld.com, LIGHTS and MUSIC enjoyed an extremely successful three-week limited engagement with very favorable audience reaction:
"Lights & Music is an innovative and mesmerizing piece."
"...so enjoyable to watch, you never want it to end!"
"...the show was great...It's very raw....raw in it's emotion, raw in it's staging....yet with a lot of heart and warmth."
"...a play with a meaningful message and a lot of fun."
"...with a twist you never saw coming!"
"...intimate, intriguing and exciting!"
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