Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce the forged of New Faces for the ultimate performances of the sixth season of the favored New Faces Sing Broadway sequence and the conclusion of its twenty seventh season with New Faces Sing Broadway 1971 at SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave., in Evanston, Monday, Aug. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Middle on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted Avenue, in Chicago, Wednesday, Aug. 3 at 7:30 p.m. This version is hosted by Jeff Award-nominee Ed Kross+, directed by Frankie Leo Bennett+ and is music directed by Bryan McCaffrey+. Single common admission tickets to New Faces Sing Broadway 1971 are $37 at SPACE and at Middle on Halsted with each venues offering a money bar. Tickets at the moment are on sale at PorchlightMusicTheatre.org or by calling the Porchlight Music Theatre field workplace, 773.777.9884.
Porchlight Music Theatre’s hit revue sequence is the tuneful and enjoyable, audience-interactive night again once more for a sixth season. Host Ed Kross+ and the New Faces, a forged made up of the subsequent technology of expertise, takes the viewers on a musical journey from the begin to the end of the 1971 Broadway season in 90 minutes with songs, historic data, trivia and sing-alongs. The newest New Faces options songs from the 1971 Broadway exhibits Follies, Howdy, Dolly!, Jesus Christ Celebrity, On the City, 70, Women, 70, Two by Two,You are a Good Man, Charlie Brown and others.
The forged of New Faces Sing Broadway 1971 consists of Rachel Carreras*, Maddison Denault*, Kristin Doty*, Josiah Haugen+, David Moreland+, Hanah Rose Nardone*, Maxel Schingen+/^, Quinn Simmons^, Kelcy Taylor* and Evan Wilhelm+.
The manufacturing workforce of New Faces 1971 consists of: Frankie Leo Bennett+, director; Bryan McCaffrey+, music director, Alex Rhyan+, manufacturing & operations director and Michael Weber+, creative director.
Most of the earlier New Face artists have continued their careers on tv, and native and nationwide levels together with Daybreak Bless* (Waitress-national tour), Katherine Bourne* (College Women; Or, the African Imply Women Play at Goodman Theatre), Lydia Burke* and Molly Kral* (Jeff Award winners [ensemble] Subtle Women), Darilyn Burtley* and Max Cervantes+ (The Gentle within the Piazza at Lyric Opera of Chicago), Kyrie Courter* (Jeff Award nominee-Subsequent to Regular), Gilbert Domally+ (Jeff Award nominee-The Whole Bent), Andres Enriquez+ (Jeff Award nominee-Porchlight’s A Gentleman’s Information to Love and Homicide), Theo Germaine+ (Showtime’s “Work in Progress”), Lucy Godinez* (Jeff Award nominee-Oliver), Emily Goldberg* (Jeff Award nominee-Porchlight’s A Gentleman’s Information to Love and Homicide), Nicole Michelle Haskins* (Jeff Award winner-The Shade Purple), Michelle Lauto* (Jeff Award winner-Spamilton), Yando Lopez+ (Depraved on Broadway), Henry McGinniss+ (E book of Mormon-national tour), Anthony Norman+ (The Promenade on Broadway, Expensive Evan Hansen-national tour), Patrick Rooney+ (Les Miserables-national tour), Aalon Smith* (Porchlight’s Gypsy), Katherine Thomas* (Jeff Award winner-Ragtime), Aeriel Williams* (Oedipus Rex at Courtroom Theatre) and Nicole Lambert*, Mallory Maedke*, Courtney Mack* and Samantha Pauly* (SIX on Broadway).
Pronoun Key: + (he/him/his); * (she/her/hers); ^ (they, them, theirs). = (any with respect)
Ed Kross+, HOST
Ed Kross was most not too long ago seen in Sister Act and Shear Insanity at The Mercury Theater. Different credit embrace West Aspect Story (Lyric Opera Of Chicago), Hazel (Drury Lane Oakbrook), The Jungle E book and Animal Crackers (The Goodman), I Love Lucy: Stay Onstage (Broadway Playhouse), in addition to productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Northlight, Peninsula Gamers, The Royal George, Second Metropolis Theatricals and Theatre At The Middle. Moreover, Kross is a 24-year ensemble member of American Blues Theater. On the small display he is appeared in over 75 commercials and had visitor roles on “Chicago Med,” “Fargo,” “Patriot,” “Chicago Hearth,” “Sirens” and “Boss.” On the massive display he shares one-on-one scenes with Tom Hanks in “Highway To Perdition” and George Clooney in “Ocean’s 12.” He’s a proud union member of Actor’s Fairness Affiliation, SAG-AFTRA, and AGMA.
Frankie Leo Bennett+, DIRECTOR
Frankie Leo Bennett not too long ago co-directed Porchlight Music Theatre’s Chicago Sings Stephen Sondheim, directed the 2022 version of Broadway In Your Yard and has appeared in its productions of In The Heights, New Faces Sing Broadway 1985 and Porchlight Revisits 1776. Bennett can be a instructing artist for The College at Porchlight and was a visitor contributor to Porchlight’s free digital choices together with Film Musical Mondays on a number of events and Sondheim @ 90 Roundtable. He serves because the chair of Porchlight’s Fairness, Range and Inclusion Committee. His regional credit embrace Punkass Pastry (Unbiased Workshop/director), The Golden Women: The Misplaced Episodes (Hell in a Purse Productions, assoc. director) and performing with Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, Kokandy Productions and Hell in a Purse Productions. He’s additionally a playwright/composer of the current Resident Providers: A Crossed-Up Animal Musical.
BRYAN MCCAFFREY+, MUSIC DIRECTOR
Bryan McCaffrey returns to Porchlight having not too long ago music directed the Porchlight Revisits manufacturing Passing Unusual and is the 2022 conductor for Porchlight Music Theatre’s free summer time live performance sequence, Broadway in your Yard. Initially from Scotland, he has labored as a music director throughout Chicagoland together with Christmas Karol (Satisfaction Arts), The Addams Household (Williams Avenue Repertory), Spring Awakening and One thing Rotten (Theatre Nebula) and Firm (Wheaton).
ABOUT PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE
Porchlight Music Theatre is the award-winning middle for music theatre in Chicago. By means of dwell efficiency, youth schooling and neighborhood outreach we impression 1000’s of lives every season, bringing the magic of musicals to our theatre residence on the Ruth Web page Middle for the Arts within the Gold Coast and to neighborhoods throughout town. Porchlight has constructed a nationwide popularity for boldly reimagining traditional musicals, supporting new works and younger performers, and showcasing Chicago’s most notable music theatre artists, all via the intimate and highly effective theatrical lens of the “Chicago Type.”
Now in its twenty seventh season, Porchlight’s quarter-century manufacturing historical past consists of greater than 70 mainstage works with 15 Chicago premieres and 5 world premieres. Porchlight’s dedication to the previous, current and way forward for music theatre led the corporate to develop the Porchlight Revisits and New Faces Sing Broadway program sequence, each shortly turning into viewers favorites.
Porchlight’s schooling and outreach applications serve colleges, youth of all ages and ability ranges and neighborhood organizations, most notably the continued collaboration with Chicago Youth Facilities. Porchlight yearly awards dozens of full scholarships and a whole bunch of free tickets to make sure accessibility and actual engagement with this uniquely American artwork type.
The corporate’s many honors embrace 178 Joseph Jefferson Award (Jeff) nominations and 45 Jeff awards, in addition to 33 Black Theatre Alliance (BTA) nominations and 12 BTA awards. In 2019, Porchlight graduated to the Giant Theatre tier of the Fairness Jeff Awards, and was honored with eight nominations in each technical and creative classes and gained three awards in its inaugural 12 months on this tier, most notably Finest Ensemble for Duke Ellington’s Subtle Women.
By means of the worldwide pandemic, Porchlight emerged as one in all Chicago’s leaders in digital programming, shortly launching a number of free choices like Sondheim @ 90 Roundtables, Film Musical Mondays, Porchlight by Request: Command Performances and WPMT: Basic Musicals from the Golden Age of Radio. For the 2020-2021 season, Porchlight’s fall schedule included all-new ticketed digital applications together with Broadway by the Decade, New Faces Sing Broadway 1987, Chicago Sings Rock & Roll Broadway, New Faces Sing Broadway 1961 and the return of The Ruffians’ Burning Bluebeard in addition to collaborations with Hershey Felder and L.A. Theatre Works. Porchlight not too long ago launched its first summer time efficiency schedule in 2021 that included a sold-out efficiency of New Faces Sing Broadway 1979 on the North Shore Middle for the Performing Arts in Skokie, the premiere of its out of doors music sequence Broadway in your Yard, carried out all through Chicagoland this summer time and particular appearances at Sundays on State and Navy Pier’s Chicago Stay Once more.
Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce the forged of New Faces for the ultimate performances of the sixth season of the favored New Faces Sing Broadway sequence and the conclusion of its twenty seventh season with New Faces Sing Broadway 1971 at SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave., in Evanston, Monday, Aug. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Middle on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted Avenue, in Chicago, Wednesday, Aug. 3 at 7:30 p.m. This version is hosted by Jeff Award-nominee Ed Kross+, directed by Frankie Leo Bennett+ and is music directed by Bryan McCaffrey+. Single common admission tickets to New Faces Sing Broadway 1971 are $37 at SPACE and at Middle on Halsted with each venues offering a money bar.
