An original musical comedy
Book, Music & Lyrics by Matt Schatz
Directed by Tom Wojtunik
Musical Direction by Eli Zoller
Featuring
Ian Lowe*, Lauren Marcus*, David Perlman*
Production team
Lighting Design: Evan Roby
Sound Designer: Daniel Melnick
Casting: wojcik|seay casting
Press Representative: Katie Rosin/Kampfire PR
Assistant Director: Taryn Turney
Production Stage Manager: Kimberly Lewis
Assistant Stage Manager: Jenny Herdman Lando
Band
Michael Burgess - Guitar/Banjo; Matthew Feick - Drums; Dennis Michael Keefe - Bass; Eli Zoller - Piano/Guitar
*Actors appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association
February 10 through 18
Fri & Sat at 8pm
Location: Good Shepherd United Methodist Church [Google Map], 30-44 Crescent St (@30th Rd), Astoria, NY 11102
Directions: Take the N/Q to 30th Avenue. Walk down 30th Ave, toward Trade Fair supermarket. Turn left on Crescent Street, then right on 30th Rd. The entrance is the second set of red doors on your left. Street parking only.
SUGGESTED DONATION: $10
Limited Seating – RSVP: [email protected] or call 718-393-7505
Story
Things were looking up for Betty Lou Mandell. She just wrote a musical. She just met a boy. But when her beloved composer/collaborator dies suddenly, she finds herself unable to move on. Or write. In an effort to help her with both problems, her new boyfriend invents a music-composing robot. Instead, Betty Lou uses this robot to bring her late collaborator back from the dead. Sort of. When this new “collaboration” begins to affect her other relationships, Betty Lou must choose between being a writer and being a girlfriend in this musical comedy that examines art, technology, and everything we use to grieve the loss of someone that we love.
Production History
Love Trapezoid was originally commissioned by the Ensemble Studio Theatre/ Alfred P. Sloan Science and Technology project. It has been developed and presented by EST/Sloan, EST/Southampton Arts, Page 73 Productions, Creative Destruction, and in concert at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. It has been a finalist for the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and the Yale Institute for Music Theatre.
Matt Schatz (Book, Music & Lyrics) APAC debut! Matt is a playwright, bookwriter, lyricist and composer who was a finalist for the 2009 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in musical theatre songwriting. Matt’s plays and musicals include The Tallest Building in the World (Luna Stage), Love Trapezoid (Developed with EST/Sloan, Southampton Arts, and P73), Pinning Hope (Creative Destruction’s “Obama Drama” Festival) and The Baby is Blue (Incumbo Theater Company/Midtown International Theatre Festival). He has written music and lyrics for Roanoke (Actors Theater of Louisville, Heideman Finalist, published as part of Humana Festival 2009: The Complete Plays), Co-op (EST), Before the Moment (EST/Sloan, 2008 AFI Sloan Summit in Los Angeles), book and lyrics for Exchanges (music by Michael Kooman, commissioned for the American Cancer Society’s “Evening of Elegance” in Altoona, PA) and music for Me First! The Pioneer Plays (The 52nd Street Project). Matt is a three-time recipient of an EST/Sloan Commission, a two-time Shubert Fellow, and has been a finalist/semi finalist for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship and the Magic Theatre’s Sloan Initiative. Member: the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop and the Dramatist Guild. Alumnus: P73’s “Interstate 73,” Youngblood Playwrights Residency at EST. MFA: Carnegie Mellon University.
