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Middletown

 

Vineyard Theatre presents
MIDDLETOWN

 

Written by Will Eno
Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll

With Heather Burns, Linus Roache, Michael Park, Georgia Engel.

From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Will Eno (THOM PAIN (based on nothing)), comes a deeply moving and funny new play, exploring the universe of a small American town. As a friendship develops between longtime resident John Dodge (Linus Roache) and new arrival Mary Swanson (Heather Burns), the lives of the inhabitants of Middletown intersect in strange and compelling ways. A powerful and poignant meditation on birth, death and points between, MIDDLETOWN is a remarkable new play from one of our finest young theatrical voices.

 

The incredible cast features Linus Roache (“RFK,” “Law & Order”), Heather Burns (“Miss Congeniality,” MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO), Johanna Day (PROOF), Georgia Engel (“Mary Tyler Moore Show,” DROWSY CHAPERONE), Emmy-winner Michael Park (“As the World Turns,” THE BURNT PART BOYS) and David Garrison (Tony nominee for A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD…, “Married with Children,” TITANIC).

 

Already an award winner, Middletown is the inaugural recipient of the newly established Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play

 

October 13 thru November 21

 

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The Last Goodbye: A Musical Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet-

 

Michael Park will participate in the well known Williamstown Theatre Festival. 
August 5 – 20

Role - Lord Capulet (Juliet's Father)

 

Conceived and adapted by Michael Kimmel
Music and lyrics by Jeff Buckley
Orchestrations, music direction and
Arrangements by Kris Kukul
Directed by Michael Kimmel
Choreography by Sonya Tayeh

 

The cast of The Last Goodbye features Kelli Barrett (The Royal Family), Nick Blaemire (Cry-Baby), Celina Carvajal (The Toxic Avenger), Merle Dandridge (Spamalot), Damon Daunno (The Last Goodbye), Tom Hennes (Freedom Train), Max Jenkins (Hair), Jo Lampert (The Daughters), Jesse Lenat (Once Around the Sun), Deb Lyons (Smokey Joe's Cafe), Grace McLean (Twelfth Night), Michael Park ("As the World Turns"), Ashley Robinson (Giant), and Chloe Webb (Sid and Nancy, Forbidden Broadway).

 

A legendary love. A transcendent artist. Shakespeare’s classic verse meets the driving, passionate rock of iconic singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley in the world premiere of The Last Goodbye. Conceived and adapted from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Michael Kimmel with the music and lyrics of Jeff Buckley arranged by Kris Kukul, an ensemble of fourteen singer/actors bring to life the lyrical beauty of two great poets set in a world of youthful angst, grandeur, and grit. Fall for Romeo and Juliet all over again in this incendiary new musical.

 

More updated information, press, reviews and media available HERE.

 

 

 

 

The Burnt Part Boys

 

Michael Park returned to the NYC stage in THE BURNT PART BOYS: A New Musical off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. This New York City premiere by an acclaimed new team, Mariana Elder, Chris Miller, and Nathan Tysen, is directed by Joe Calarco and ran April 30 – June 13, 2010.  

 

THE BURNT PART BOYS takes place in coal country, West Virginia, in 1962. Fourteen year-old Pete’s fighting to claim his past. His older brother Jake’s hoping to forge a future. With their friends, they’ve embarked on a life-altering journey to the mine that took their father’s (Michael Park) life. Featuring a vibrant, haunting bluegrass and pop-inspired score, this gripping new musical from an acclaimed new team will capture your heart as it finds the streaks of light within the darkness. For more information, please visit their website at www.playwrightshorizons.org.

 

Photo available in the Gallery.

 

More information about the production, including audio and video, and reviews available HERE.

 

 

Pure Country

 

(Workshop for the upcoming Broadway Musical) - Rusty - May 2008 - Producers characterize Pure Country this way: "Sometimes fame and fortune aren't enough. In the new Broadway musical Pure Country, Rusty is a country music superstar at the height of his career with all the high stakes pressures that come with it. When they start to take their toll and he walks out of an overblown concert tour, his search begins to find himself - and the love he left behind. Pure Country is about the price of fame and one man's journey home."

 

 

Applause (City Center's Encores) - Bill Sampson - Feb. 7-10, 2008. 

 

Applause, based on the classic Bette Davis film, All About Eve, is the ultimate backstage musical – the story of the great Broadway star Margo Channing (Christine Ebersole) and her duplicitous understudy, Eve Harrington (Erin Davie).    Visit the Applause page for more information, photos and videos.

 

 

Bloomer Girl (City Center's Encores) - Jeff Calhoun - March 2001 

 

The amusingly contrived story involves Horatio Applegate (Philip Bosco), an upstate New York manufacturer of hoop skirts who has married off five of his daughters to his regional salesmen. He is, as the show begins, playing Cupid with the sixth, Evelina (Kate Jennings Grant), and his new employee, Jeff Calhoun (Michael Park), a slave owner from Kentucky. Evelina, however, is devoted to her aunt, Dolly Bloomer (Kathleen Chalfant), a stubborn women's activist and abolitionist. (Dolly is based on a historical figure, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who published a reform-oriented newspaper and, in outrage over garments like hoop skirts, Promoted the billowy pantaloons that bear her name.) The battles of the sexes and North and South are played out in the courtship of Evelina and Jeff until finally love and liberalism win.  Review from NY Times

 

 

Little Me (Broadway - Revival) - Lucky - November 12, 1998 - February 7,1999  

 

Tells the life story of Belle Poitrine (Faith Prince), whose name in French means "beautiful chest." While the only gift with which the Creator has endowed her is a large bosom, Belle rises from being a poor drifter by marrying, doing business with, and/or killing an angry unloved miser (Martin Short), a fast-talking vaudeville agent (Martin Short), a French nightclub singer (Martin Short), an innocent nearsighted soldier (Martin Short), an overzealous Hollywood director (Martin Short), and a destitute dying prince (Martin Short) to attain wealth, culture, social position, and a happy ending with the true love of her life, the innocently-egoistic millionaire Noble Eggleston (Martin Short). Short won a Tony Award for this.

 

 

Violet (off-Broadway) - Monty - March 11, 1997 - April 6, 1997. 

 

One of the most acclaimed off-Broadway shows of the ’90s, Violet is a musical that tells the story of young disfigured woman who embarks on a journey by bus from her farm in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma in order to be healed.  Received 7 Drama Desk Nominations.  Review from the NY Times

     

 

Smokey Joe's Cafe (original cast, Broadway) - 3/2/1995 - 1/16/2000

 

Michael's Broadway debut.  (Did not stay the entire run.)Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical theatrical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.  This was the longest running musical revue on Broadway and received rave reviews.  This musical was nominated for seven Tony Awards. The Original Broadway cast soundtrack, Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs Of Leiber And Stoller won a Grammy award in 1995.  Music clips and Video in Media.  

 

 

Carousel (Lincoln Center) - December 1994 - Replacement understudy for Billy

 

Based on a story by Ferenc Molnar, the story starts in 1873 in a small New England village. There is a "love affair between Billy Bigelow, a travelling carnival man, and Julie Jordan, a local factory worker. Desperate for money after learning that he is soon to become a father, Billy is killed during an attempted robbery. Several years later, when he is allowed to return to earth for a short time, he seeks out the daughter of his union with Julie.

 

 

Hello Again (Lincoln Center) - January - April 1994 - College Boy

 

The play, begins in 1900 with a Prostitute soliciting an unwilling Soldier: The next scene takes place in the 1940s, and the Soldier, afraid of dying in the war, tussles with a sympathetic Nurse. Next, the Nurse becomes a 1960s dominatrix over her patient, an upper-crust College Boy with wild leanings. In the 1930s, the College Boy reappears as the impotent partner of an adulterous Young Wife who can only have relations with him in seedy, out-of-the-way places. Meeting the woman's Husband in the next scene, we see why she's been driven to such moral turpitude. In her loneliness, the Wife dances a haunting pas-de-deux with the mirror image of her repressed, sensual self: Experiencing the Wife's scene from a totally different perspective, we then meet the Husband as a closet homosexual. Hello Again was a1994 Obie Award winner for outstanding music & lyrics and recipient of 9 Drama Desk nominations including best musical.  Review from The NY Times.

 

 

Milk And Honey (off-Broadway) - June 1994- David

 

Milk and Honey is a musical with a book by Don Appell and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The story centers on a busload of lonely American widows hoping to catch husbands while touring Israel and is set against the background of the country's fight for recognition as an independent nation. It was Herman's first Broadway book musical.  Review from The NY Times.

 

 

Regional Stage:

 

Ken Hill's Phantom Of The Opera (Raoul, National Tour)

Ellen Universe Joins The Band (Bobby)

Peephole (John)

Shenandoah (James)

Good News (Tom)

It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman (Superman)

Chess (Freddie)

Into The Woods (Cinderella's Prince)

A Chorus Line (Bobby/Don)

A  Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Hero)

 

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