NOVEMBER 2023
Ripley-Grier Studios
AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE LAB presents
Winner of The Eric H. Weinberger Award for Emerging Librettists
Music by CHARLIE ROMANO Lyrics by WILL WEGNER
Book by WILL WEGNER and CHARLIE ROMANO
based on the play Up (The Man in the Flying Chair) by Bridget Carpenter
featuring
ALEX JOSEPH GRAYSON LIZ McCARTNEY MAMIE PARRIS
SAM PRIMACK JIM STANEK SAMANTHA WILLIAMS
Casting Director Press Stage Manager
MICHAEL CASSARA, CSA RICHARD HILLMAN PR BENJAMIN A. VIGIL
Music Director GRIFFIN STROUT Directed by MICHAEL BARNARD
In 1982, Walter Griffin made national headlines after flying 16,000 feet in the sky with a lawnchair and a cluster of weather balloons. 17 years later, his wife and son have kept him tethered to the practicalities of daily life—until a surreal visit from his idol, wirewalker Philippe Petit, blurs the line between reality and fantasy.
An intimate chamber musical with a sweeping score, ONWARD & UPWARD explores the desperate lengths to which one man will go to realize his dream.
AUGUST 2023
Ripley-Grier Studios, 305 West 38th St. Studio 311
with
TONI DIBUONO EMILY ESPOSITO BADIA FARHA
ARMANDO GUTIERREZ CASS MORGAN DANIELLE TROIANO
The Post-Roe Monologues explores the real-world consequences of the overturning of Roe v. Wade based on interviews and the experience of the author as an OB/GYN. The play is an intimate, character-driven evening that will compel conversation and compassion.
AUGUST 2022
Open Jar Studios – Room 12J
The Amas Musical Theatre Lab
in association with Timeless Stage & Screen
presents
MOZART: HER STORY - The New Musical
Book and Lyrics by TEGAN SUMMER
Music and additional Lyrics by GREGORY NABOURS
featuring
Kennedy Caughell Justin Matthew Sargent Robert Cuccioli Angel Reda
Lana Gordon John Cariani Jonathan Mousset Nik Walker N’Kenge
with
Corey Mach Grace Field Ambrose Martos Ashley Fuller Amber Ardolino
Bethaney Wellings-Davies Jessica Jaunich Tess Primack
Stage Manager Jeff Brancato
Directed by KELLY DEVINE
AUGUST 2022
Theatre Row Theatre 2
Book and Music Cheeyang Ng
Book and Lyrics Eric Sorrels
with
Meetu Chilana • Max Chlumecky • George Dvorsky •
Deven Kolluri • Yamuna Meleth • SEVAN • Kuhoo Verma
Press Richard Hillman PR Casting Michael Cassara Casting
Stage Manager Christine Viega Movement Consultant Ruj Vaidya
Music Director Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh
Directed by Arpita Mukherjee
Set in the time of Gandhi’s non-violent Independence Movement and the waning British Raj,
Māyā tells the story of a female poet’s awakening to the fight for sovereignty.
Winner of the 2020 Eric H. Weinberger Emerging Librettist Award • Sponsored by Kermitt Brooks, and Steve Sagman, the Dramatist Guild and
the Frank Young Fund for New Musicals, a program of National Alliance for Musical Theatre
AUGUST 2022
JUNE 2022
Theater 555 • 555 West 42nd Street
The Amas Song Salon presents
Orson Welles called her "the most exciting woman in the world." But in 1968, she was blacklisted after "making the First Lady cry." I Wanna Be Evil chronicles the iconic Eartha Kitt from a destitute childhood
to a storied career in the theatre and Hollywood.
with
Darrell Philip
written by Jenelle Lynn Randall
music director Darnell White
directed by Yvans Jourdain
Sponsored by Sharleen Cooper Cohen
APRIL 2022
Winner of the 2021 Eric H. Weinberger Emerging Librettist Award
book and lyrics by Gabe Caruso music by Sangwoo Lee
Music Director Andrew Shield
Production Assistant Tatiana Danielle Mirabent
Stage Manager Benjamin A. Vigil
with
Gabe Caruso Danish Farooqui Alyssa Gomez Lauren Hooper Curtis Wiley
directed by
Christopher Scott
Mark is 17 years old and a product of the darker side of the American foster care system. Aging out of the system, he moves in with his best friend Lily, and her father. As Mark adjusts to real family life, this hip hop musical explores the concept of family and coming to terms with the hidden secrets that separate and bind them.
Sponsored by Ben Gadon, Marvin Kahan, and Steve Sagman