| OFF-BROADWAY’S PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY RE-BRANDS AS PROSPECT MUSICALS | |
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| OFF BROADWAY'S PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY RE-BRANDS AS PROSPECT MUSICALS 25TH ANNIVERSARY GALA & MUSE AWARDS TO BE HELD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 AT THE EDISON BALLROOM HONOREES AND HOSTS TO BE ANNOUNCED NEW PROSPECT MUSICALS BRANDING AVAILABLE HERE Cara Reichel (Producing Artistic Director) and Melissa Huber (Managing Director) announced today that off-Broadway's award-winning Prospect Theater Company will re-brand as Prospect Musicals as the company celebrates 25 years of pioneering, developing, and producing new musical theater works. The change to Prospect Musicals will be celebrated as part of the company's 25th Anniversary Gala, which will be held on Monday, September 30th at The Edison Ballroom (240 West 47th Street). The evening will include cocktails, dinner, and entertainment from special guests in celebration of this year's to-be-announced Muse Award recipients. The company also proudly launches a re-designed website at www.ProspectMusicals.org which will include a full archive of the organization's past projects, to be rolled out over the upcoming season. "In 1999, Prospect produced its first show for one weekend only, downtown in the West Village. In the twenty-five years since, we're proud to have built an expansive creative community that includes both accomplished Tony Award winners and emerging artists who just landed in NYC a few months ago," said Cara Reichel, Prospect Musicals' Producing Artistic Director. "We look forward to many more years of providing a home for compelling voices bringing to life original musicals." "Prospect's new name places our mission of creating musical theater at the center of our identity," said Melissa Huber, Prospect Musical's Managing Director. "Our dedication to bold new work and building an inclusive community will remain the same, even as we unveil a new logo and fresh look for the company's marketing." To reserve tickets for the upcoming 25th Anniversary Gala evening, please visit www.ProspectMusicals.org. Additional information on the gala, including Muse Award recipients, hosts, performers, and more, will be announced shortly. ABOUT PROSPECT MUSICALS Over two decades, Prospect Musicals has mounted full productions of nearly 40 new musicals, as well as presented hundreds of concerts, readings, and developmental labs, affirming the organization's place as one of NYC's foremost incubators of new musical theater talent. In addition to Prospect's musical premieres, they have produced new plays and numerous "revisals" and re-inventions of classic works. Reflecting its investment in the future of the field, Prospect leads a variety of developmental initiatives: including an annual Musical Theater Lab for emerging writers, and the IGNITE Series of new musical theater in concert. In 2020, Prospect launched the VISION Series of original music-theater works on film, created for online streaming. In recognition of its enterprising and risk-taking new musical theater, the company has received an OBIE Award grant, and its role as a community anchor for emerging artists that strengthens the quality, diversity, and dynamism of American theater was honored by the American Theatre Wing. In 2023 Prospect produced the NYC Off-Broadway premiere of Justin Huertas' acclaimed musical Lizard Boy at Theatre Row, which was nominated for three 2024 Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Music, and Outstanding Book of a Musical. In 2022, Prospect commissioned and produced (at 59E59 Theaters) the musical song-cycle Notes From Now – Songs of Resilience & Renewal, featuring a lineup of newly-commissioned original songs created by 21 of today's brightest musical theater writers. Previously, Prospect produced the Drama Desk Award-nominated Einstein's Dreams (2019) by Joanne Sydney Lessner & Joshua Rosenblum, adapted from the novel by Alan Lightman; and the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated The Hello Girls (2018), by company founding artists Peter Mills & Cara Reichel. Currently commissioned projects in development include The Oscar Micheaux Project (NAMT Festival 2023), a new musical from the Brooklyn-based group Bandits on the Run about the Yukon Gold Rush, and a new original musical by company founders Mills and Reichel, The Troupe. Other notable productions include: Kerrigan & Lowdermilk's The Mad Ones (2017); Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster's Jasper in Deadland (2014); the Drama Desk nominated Tamar of the River (2013) by Joshua H. Cohen and Marisa Michelson; Carner & Gregor's Unlock'd (2013); Gordon Greenberg's revisal of Working (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble, 2012) including new songs by Lin Manuel Miranda; and Elizabeth Lucas' re-imagining of Guettel's Myths and Hymns (2012). # # # # ProspectMusicals.org Facebook: @ProspectMusicals Instagram: @ProspectMusicals X: @ProspectTheater YouTube: @ProspectMusicals TikTok: @Prospect.Musicals |
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