AT THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE
PERFORMING JUNE – JULY, 2013
AND FEATURING
BOOK BY FILM’S ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER JEFF ARCH
AND DIRECTED BY LONNY PRICE
PERFORMING JUNE – JULY, 2013
AND FEATURING
BOOK BY FILM’S ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER JEFF ARCH
AND DIRECTED BY LONNY PRICE
PASADENA, CA (July 26, 2011) – The Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic
Director and Charles Dillingham, Interim Executive Director), in association
with David Shor, announced today that Ben Toth and Sam Foreman have been named
the new composer and lyricist of SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE – THE MUSICAL. They join
the previously announced Lonny Price as director, Jeff Arch as book writer, and
Eric Stern as musical director. The world premiere of SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE –
THE MUSICAL is set to close the 2012 - 2013 season with performances beginning
in June at The Pasadena Playhouse (39 S. El Molino).
“We are proud to have Ben and Sam, two strong artists with solid pasts, strong
presents and amazing futures, join the Sleepless creative team, “ said director
Lonny Price. “We are thick into creating the new musical. The plan is to hold a
reading this fall, make changes then do another reading during the winter and
incorporate additional changes prior to beginning rehearsals in May.”
Ben Toth has served as a musical director/vocal coach/producer for some of the
most popular actor/singers currently working on the stage, including “Glee’s”
Lea Michele and Idina Menzel, Beau Bridges, “Mad Men’s” Christina Hendricks,
Taye Diggs and Mandy Patinkin, with whom he performed to critical acclaim at the
Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End. Ben just completed the score for
Liberal Arts, a feature film starring Zac Efron, Allison Janney and Josh Radnor,
opening in the US and UK in late 2012.
Sam Foreman is the lyricist and co-book author for the musical I Sing! which has
been produced commercially Off-Broadway and in theatres around the world. A
writer for the stage, screen, and television, Sam co-created (with Beau
Willimon) the Civil War era television pilot “Hickory Hill” for AMC.
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE – THE MUSICAL has a book by Jeff Arch, Shor’s longtime
business partner, who penned the film’s original story and co-wrote the
screenplay, sharing 1994 Oscar, BAFTA and WGA nominations with Nora Ephron and
David Ward.
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE – THE MUSICAL centers around Sam, a widower and single
father. When Sam's son, Jonah calls into a talk radio program looking for a new
mother, Sam ends up getting on the phone and laments about his lost love.
Thousands of miles away in Baltimore, Annie hears the program and immediately
falls in love with Sam, despite the fact that she has never met him and that she
is engaged to another man. Believing they are meant to be together, Annie sets
out for Seattle to meet Sam, who, meanwhile, contends with an onslaught of
letters from available women equally touched by his phone call.
The American Film Institute (AFI) lists SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE among the Top 10
Best Romantic Comedies of all time and the film grossed over $227 million
dollars worldwide. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, two BAFTA
Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four MTV Movie Awards, one Writers Guild of
America Award, and won an American Comedy Award and a Casting Society of America
Award. SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE is based on the 1957 film An Affair to Remember
starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
Tickets are currently available by subscription only. Single ticket on sale
date and prices, full casting and creative team will be announced at a later
date.
The Pasadena Playhouse is located at 39 South El Molino Avenue in Pasadena.
Subscriptions are available for purchase at www.PasadenaPlayhouse.org, by
calling the Box Office at 626-356-7529 or by visiting The Pasadena Playhouse Box
Office. The Box Office is open Tuesday – Sunday from 12:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.
during non-performance dates; Monday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Tuesday –
Sunday from 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. on performance dates. Group subscriptions
are also available.
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