On this new episode of Backstage with New York Broadway Tours, Amada had the pleasure to interview her school friend Lynne Abeles who is currently on Broadway as the Spanish Lady/Carlotta understudy. After seeing the show Amada meets with her backstage and then they enjoy tea and snacks at the famous Broadway cookie joint Schmackary’s. Hear what she shares about her experience working on Broadway as Carlotta and how she trained for the part. Also, the footage stopped taping but a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Lynne and her soon to be married bliss!!!! We caught the engagement ring on the video and she didn’t announce it yet. We wish you all the BEST Lynne! XOXOX
Snow Orchid is playing?FEBRUARY 3-28 at?THEATRE ROW. Meet the director Valentina Fratti!!!
ABOUT THE PLAY
It’s 1964 Brooklyn and Rocco Lazarra is returning home to face his family after having suffered a nervous breakdown. His fiery wife, Filumena, longs for her native Sicily, while their two sons hope for a better life. As secrets are revealed, everyone is forced to re-examine their relationships, fears and dreams in this explosive family drama. Don’t miss this new version of Pintauro’s play starring Robert Cuccioli and Angelina Fiordellisi, and directed by Valentina Fratti.
VALENTINA FRATTI
(Director) is co-founder and Artistic Director of the Miranda Theatre Company, where her directing credits include Jeff Daniels’Apartment 3A, The Book of Wren, Innocent Thoughts, Prostitutki and Near Normal. Most recently, she directed Resonance Ensemble’s R.U.R. at the Clurman Theatre; Two Brothers at Theater for the New City, The Green Manifesto by Anne Berlin and Andy Cohen at the New York International Fringe Festival. Other credits include Revolution, Love Stinks (SPF Abridged Festival, Public Theatre), Little Drummer, Rocky’s First Christmas, Pocket Change, Charles Duncombe’s Patriot Act at the Castillo Theatre and Young Playwrights Festivals at the Cherry Lane Alternative and the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons. Readings includeHowling Hilda with Mary Testa, Ginna Carter’s Traffic School with Elaine Stritch and Carla Cook’s The War with Lynn Cohen. As a playwright, her works include Unearthed, The Male Appetite, Jerusalem Mountain and Shooting Medea. She works with commercial producer Jane Harmon and was the Associate Producer on the Broadway production of Alfred Uhry’s Tony Award-winning Best Play The Last Night of Ballyhoo.
New York Broadway Tours CEO/Tour Guide, Amada Anderson, interviews Valentina Fratti on her work as a Director and Producer in New York City and her new OFF-Broadway show “Snow Orchid”.
ACCIDENTAL PERVERT is the true accounting of one boy?s odyssey to manhood via a childhood dominated by pornography, an addiction accumulated after the boy happens upon his father?s collection of XXX-Rated video tapes in a bedroom closet, just to the right of his golf clubs, above the cowboy boots, behind the sweatshirts, all the way up in the top left hand corner.? Andrew Goffman takes his audience on a hilarious and self-deprecating journey into a world of video vixens, X-Rated fantasies, and really DIRTY movies with no redeeming value whatsoever.?? He found the tapes at 11 years-of-age.? The addiction controlled him until he was 26.??? THE YEAR HE MET HIS WIFE.
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Algonquin Arts Theatre’s annual gala is our single biggest fundraising event of the year featuring a high-profile headliner and honoring members of their community for the support of our mission.?All proceeds from ticket sales, raffles, our extremely popular silent auction, sponsorships and journal ads go directly back into the educational and main stage programs here and help us keep ticket prices to our shows and performances affordable to all.
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