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The Jonathan Larson Award-Winning Raw Impressions, Inc.
presents
RIPFest #4 - Movie Musicals - starring Tonya Pinkins and Julia Murney
and
Raw Impressions, Inc. in association with the producers of Slut present
Dreams This Way: The Best of Raw Impressions Music Theatre
at The First Annual New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF)
September 12, 2004 (New York, NY) Raw Impressions, Inc. in association
with PenneySeal Productions is very
proud to present Dreams This Way: The Best of Raw Impressions Music
Theatre featuring the writing of DJ
Javerbaum –-Emmy Award-Winning Head Writer of The Daily Show
and a dozen other writers. There will be
two performances as part of the First Annual New York Musical Theatre
Festival (NYMF) on Monday, September 27 at 6:30&9PM at The Beckett
Theatre on Theatre Row - 410 W. 42nd St. Tickets are $15 and can
be purchased at www.theatermania.com or 212-352-3101. For more info
on Raw Impressions, visit www.rawimpressions.org.
Raw Impressions, Inc. was founded in 2001 by David Rodwin (Producing
Artistic Director) and Patrick Mellen
(Music Theatre Division Director). We work in music theatre and film
with a unique focus on the intersection
between the two forms – movie musicals. We are committed to
inspiring artists to be prolific with excellence.
At our film event, RIPFest, six teams of filmmakers who have never
met are paired together and given guidelines to create six 10-minute
film in 16 days. NYMF will be presenting RIPFest #4 – Six movie
musicals that were made in May 2004 staring six amazing casts including:
Tony Award-Winner Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change) and Drama Desk-Nominated
Julia Murney (Wild Party – MTC). It also
features the work of Broadway directors Scott Schwartz (Golda’s
Balcony, Bat Boy) and Ted Sperling (MD: Kiss of the Spider Woman,
Full Monty). RIPFest #4 will be screened at AMC 25 at 234 W. 42nd
St. on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 2PM. Tix: $10.
Raw Impressions’ RIPFest films have been official
selections at film festivals around the country including Mill Valley,
Sonoma, Urbanworld, The Daily Show Film Fest, Chicago City Limits
Film Fest, and many others. At Raw Impressions Music Theatre (RIMT)
professional writers and composers create 8 new 10-minute musicals
in 10 days. Raw Impressions
has commissioned, developed and produced 124 short musicals in the
last three years at LaMaMa ETC and Dreams This Way features the eight
best. Backstage hailed it “The Best of the Best”. NY Press
declared Raw Impressions as “"A jewel of New York music
theatre”. And The Jonathan Larson Foundation confirmed this
honor by naming them the youngest organization to win their coveted
award.
Dreams This Way involves 38 artists who represent the
future of music theatre. In addition to DJ Javerbaum,
featured artists are: Andrew Gerle and Maryrose Wood - the only
three-time winners of the Richard Rodgers
Award for their musical The Tutor; Scott Ethier - Macon Symphony
Composer-In-Residence; Curtis Moore –
composer of the score for Todd Solondz's film, Palindromes; Jen
Waldman currently in Wicked on Broadway;
and Jimmy Bennett - co-creator and star of The Nuclear Family.
Dreams This Way director Daniella Topol has directed
new plays and musicals for Ensemble Studio Theatre,
Epiphany Theatre Company, The Lark, New York Theatre Workshop
Reading Series, and FringeNYC. Jane
Abramson and Laura Penney are PenneySeal Productions, which
produced Slut at FringeNYC 2003. They set
the record for the fastest show to sell out in the New York
International Fringe Festival’s history. The cast is
Jimmy Bennett, Gavin Esham, Patrick Mellen, Amanda Ryan Paige,
Lucy Sorensen and Jennifer Waldman.
For more information call David Rodwin (917) 553-2147 and go
online to www.rawimpressions.org.