Kim Vasquez News

Therapy Rocks By Karen Bishko co-bookwriter

NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and Kim Vasquez/Gray Lady Entertainment are pleased to announce THERAPY ROCKS, a new modern musical with book by Karen Bishko, Kaethe Fine and Nat Bennett, music and lyrics by Karen Bishko and directed by Thomas Caruso, as part of their 2010 showcase.

NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and KIM VASQUEZ/GRAY LADY ENTERTAINMENT are pleased to announce THERAPY ROCKS, a new modern musical with book by KAREN BISHKO, KAETHE FINE and NAT BENNETT, music and lyrics by KAREN BISHKO and directed by Thomas Caruso, as part of their 2010 showcase. Performances will run September 27th at 8 pm, September 29th at 1 pm, October 1st at 8 pm, October 2nd and 3rd at 4:30 pm, October 5th at 8 pm and October 6th at 1 pm at Urban Stages.

Kim Vasquez/Gray Lady Entertainment, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (John Shea, Artistic Director), The Nantucket Historical Association, African Meeting House and The Nantucket Atheneum are pleased to present ANDRÉ DE SHIELDS in MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY: FROM DOUGLASS TO DELIVERANCE inspired by Frederick Douglass, the great American abolitionist.

Kim Vasquez/Gray Lady Entertainment, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (John Shea, Artistic Director), The Nantucket Historical Association, African Meeting House and The Nantucket Atheneum are pleased to present ANDRÉ DE SHIELDS in MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY: FROM DOUGLASS TO DELIVERANCE inspired by Frederick Douglass, the great American abolitionist.

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and KIM VASQUEZ/ GRAY LADY ENTERTAINMENT, INC. team up again with this year's PLAGUED - A LOVE STORY with book and lyrics by VYNNIE MELI and music by CASEY L. FILIACI. Directed by SAMUEL BUGGELN (Bedbugs!) with musical direction by ZAK SANDLER.

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and Kim Vasquez/ GRAY LADY ENTERTAINMENT, INC. team up again with this year's PLAGUED - A LOVE STORY with book and lyrics by VYNNIE MELI and music by CASEY L. FILIACI. Directed by SAMUEL BUGGELN (Bedbugs!) with musical direction by ZAK SANDLER.

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and KIM VASQUEZ/ GRAY LADY ENTERTAINMENT, INC. team up again with this year's PLAGUED - A LOVE STORY with book and lyrics by VYNNIE MELI and music by CASEY L. FILIACI. Directed by SAMUEL BUGGELN (Bedbugs!) with musical direction by ZAK SANDLER.

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and KIM VASQUEZ/ GRAY LADY ENTERTAINMENT, INC. team up again with this year's PLAGUED - A LOVE STORY with book and lyrics by VYNNIE MELI and music by CASEY L. FILIACI. Directed by SAMUEL BUGGELN (Bedbugs!) with musical direction by ZAK SANDLER.

I was scraping snow off the windshield of my rental car with an unopened package of Dentyne and I was laughing. It was May - May! - and I hadn't seen snow since '07. The day before I was walking along the Chattahoochee River in sandals, jasmine filled the air and my azaleas had come and gone. I'd flown in from Atlanta to work on music with Casey Filiaci and I should have known. I grew up in Rochester - and with Casey. But, May?

FEATURING BRENDA BRAXTON -1995 Tony Award® Nominee for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for SMOKEY JOE'S CAFÉ and LORRAINE SERABIAN - 1969 Tony Award® Nominee for Best Featured Actress in a Musical - ZORBA!

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and KIM VASQUEZ/ GRAY LADY ENTERTAINMENT, INC. team up again with this year's PLAGUED - A LOVE STORY with book and lyrics by VYNNIE MELI and music by CASEY L. FILIACI. Directed by SAMUEL BUGGELN (Bedbugs!) with musical direction by ZAK SANDLER.

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and KIM VASQUEZ/ GRAY LADY ENTERTAINMENT, INC. team up again with this year's PLAGUED - A LOVE STORY with book and lyrics by VYNNIE MELI and music by CASEY L. FILIACI. Directed by SAMUEL BUGGELN (Bedbugs!) with musical direction by ZAK SANDLER.

Barbara Walsh, celebrated Tony and Drama Desk award nominated actress in such Broadway musicals as the 2007 revival of COMPANY, FALSETTOS, BIG, HAIRSPRAY, BLOOD BROTHERS, NINE AND ROCK AND ROLL: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS, as well as television's 'One Life To Live' and 'Law and Order,' will star as Beatrice Stanton in the New York Musical Theatre Festival's production of ABOUT FACE.

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and KIM VASQUEZ/ GRAYLADY ENTERTAINMENT, INC. present NYMF's only Children's musical this year, MAX AND THE TRUFFLE PIG

Tony Award-nominee Liz Larsen and other members of the cast of Such Good Friends - the new award-winning musical about a team of television writers who are threatened by blacklisting in the 50's - will perform a one-night-only concert of music by actual blacklisted writers, 'Are You Now or Have You Ever Been...A Blacklist Cabaret,' on Monday, November 5 at 6:30PM at the Zipper Theatre

30 Days of NYMF, DAY 14: Written by Noel Katz, composer, bookwriter and lyricist of 'SUCH GOOD FRIENDS'

The NYMF presents the world premiere of Such Good Friends, featuring Tony Award-nominees Liz Larsen and Brad Oscar, a musical comedy with book, music and lyrics by Noel Katz, beginning September 28 at the Julia Miles Theatre.

The rock musical EMERALD MAN, a modern-day Don Quixote complete with comic books and superheroes, has been chosen for the 2007 ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in Los Angeles. It is one of 4 musicals selected out of 170 submissions.

Amas Musical Theatre will present three free staged readings of Escape from Pterodactyl Island, 'a new musical adventure' featuring a star-studded cast.