GREEN LIGHT GROUP PRODUCTIONS (GLG) has announced the first New York City reading of AUDREY: The New Musical as part of the 2020 season of the EAST BROADWAY THEATER PROJECT (Artistic Director: Gail Kriegel ) at THE MANNY CANTOR CENTER on January 6th, 2020 at 7PM.
Synonymous with elegance, in the 1950s and ’60s, Audrey Hepburn was the queen of romantic comedy. Winning both the Tony (Ondine) and the Oscar (Roman Holiday) in her first year on the American scene, Audrey commanded the screen opposite the likes of nearly every leading man of her day, from Gregory Peck to Cary Grant and even Fred Astaire. Her own life, however, was far less charmed than that of the lucky-in-love heroines she so poignantly portrayed. AUDREY follows a reluctant icon from her days as a ballerina-turned-spy in Nazi-occupied Holland, to her heartbreaking attempts, with multiple men, to create the family of which the war robbed her, through her accidental revolution of style, sexuality, and singledom for a generation of women as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Featuring a book, music, and lyrics by DANIELLE E. MOORE (GATSBY: A New Musical) AUDREY re-examines the life of a legend through song, dance, and the technicolor lens of her most iconic screen performances.
The reading will be lead by CHLOE LAPENAT as Audrey. A writer, actor, and producer – whose miniseries, Joyfully Jaded, is currently screening at festivals internationally – Lapenat certainly shares the character’s affinity for the medium of […]
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