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THE MAXA world premiere musical from the acclaimed composer
of Dream True and The Grapes of Wrath

American Musical Voices Project: Part II

SYCAMORE TREES
By Ricky Ian Gordon

Directed by Tina Landau

Book by Ricky Ian Gordon and Nina Mankin

Sycamore Trees is sponsored by the Shen Family Foundation and is a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.

Featuring Broadway’s Farah Alvin, Marc Kudisch, Judy Kuhn, Jessica Molaskey, Matthew Risch, Diane Sutherland & Tony Yazbeck

Composer Ricky Ian Gordon is the second recipient of the American Musical Voices Project Award to present a new work of musical theater on Signature's stage. Sycamore Trees is the moving story of his family's struggles and their reliance on each other through good and bad.

"When my father came home from World War II in 1945, my family lived in a crowded tenement in the Bronx, poor and with bed bugs. Then my parents got the idea to move to the suburbs where the dream of life flowering in a clean and spacious environment promised to be the answer.

It wasn't.

This is the story of a family and what happened to them … and music is its heartbeat and inner life." – Ricky Ian Gordon

Steppenwolf Theatre member and acclaimed director Tina Landau (Superior Donuts, Iphigenia 2.0, The Trojan Women) comes to the Washington area to direct this world premiere musical.

May 18 – June 13, 2010
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Sponsored by the Shen Family Foundation. 

“Signature’s American Musical Voices Project is the most ambitious embrace of new musical theater in the DC region.” – The Washington Post

MEET THE CAST OF SYCAMORE TREES

Marc Kudisch from The Witches of Eastwick and his costar Judy Kuhn from The Highest Yellow are returning to Signature in Sycamore Trees. They are joined by Broadway actors Farah Alvin, Jessica Molaskey, Matthew Risch, Diane Sutherland, and Tony Yazbeck. Learn more about them below:

Farah Alvin  BROADWAY: Nine, The Look of Love, Saturday Night Fever, Grease! (and Nat'l Tour), A Christmas Carol. OFF-BROADWAY: The Marvelous Wonderettes (Drama Desk nomination), I Love You Because, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie..., Cam Jansen, Kuni-Leml. REGIONAL: Goodspeed, Papermill, Huntington: Pirates of Penzance; White Plains: Ragtime;New Theatre Kansas City: I Do! I Do!, Funny Girl;  soloist with numerous symphonies including The National (Kennedy Center). RECORDINGS: The Marvelous Wonderettes, I Love You Because, Hallway: The Songs of Carol Hall, Jekyll And Hyde Concept Album, and an album of original music entitled someday.

Marc Kudisch SIGNATURE: The Witches Of Eastwick (Helen Hayes Award), The Highest Yellow (Helen Hayes nomination). BROADWAY: 9 to 5 (Tony® and Drama Desk nominations), The Apple Tree, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Tony® and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Assassins (Drama Desk nomination), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony®, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Bells Are Ringing, The Wild Party, The Scarlet Pimpernel, High Society, Beauty & the Beast, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. OFF-BROADWAY: Lincoln Center: The Glorious Ones; Public Theatre: See What I Wanna See (Drama Desk nomination); New York City Opera: Pirates of Penzance, A Little Night Music; City Center Encores!: Girl Crazy, Broadway Bash, No Strings (Mike Robinson); The Thing About Men. REGIONAL: Los Angeles Opera: A Little Night Music. NATIONAL TOUR: Bye Bye Birdie. TV: Lifetime Network: Break In; ABC: Bye Bye Birdie; HBO: Sex & the City. Directorial credits include The Broadway Musicals of 1959 (2007), The Broadway Musicals of 1930 (2006), and The Broadway Musicals of 1963 (2004) in Scott Siegel's Broadway by the Year concerts. EDUCATION: BFA in Theatre, Florida Atlantic University.

 

Judy Kuhn SIGNATURE: The Highest Yellow. BROADWAY: She Loves Me (Tony® nomination), Chess (Tony®/Drama Desk nominations), Les Misérables (Tony®/Drama Desk nominations), Rags (Drama Desk nomination), Two Shakespearean Actors, King David, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. LONDON: Metropolis (Olivier Award nomination). OFF-BROADWAY: As Thousand's Cheer; Eli's Comin' (Obie Award), Martha Clarke's Endangered Spieces. DC AREA: Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration: Passion. REGIONAL: Sunset Boulevard (LA/U.S. premiere), Three Sisters (Intiman), The Glass Menagerie, Martin Guerre. FILM/TELEVISION: Pocahontas (title role), Enchanted, Hope & Faith, Law & Order, The Secret Life of Mary Margaret (HBO), My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies, The Kennedy Center Honors, Les Misérables 10th Anniversary Concert, In Performance At The White House. CDs: Just In Time: Judy Kuhn sings Jule Styne, Serious Playground: The Songs of Laura Nyro. judykuhn.net.

 

Jessica Molaskey BROADWAY: Sunday in the Park With George (Yvonne), A Man of No Importance (Mrs. Patrick), Parade, Dream, The Who's Tommy (Mrs. Walker), Crazy For You, Chess, Les Miserables, Cats, Oklahoma!. OFF-BROADWAY: WPA Theater: Songs For a New World, Weird Romance; Vineyard Theater: Ricky Ian Gordon's Dream True (directed by Tina Landau); New York Theater Workshop: Stephen Sondheim's Wise Guys (directed by Sam Mendes). REGIONAL: Prince Theater: 3hree (directed by Hal Prince); Goodman Theater: Another Mid-Summer Night's Dream (Helena), The Book of the Night (directed by Robert Falls). SOLO RECORDINGS: Pentimento, A Good Day, Make Believe, Sitting in Limbo, A Kiss to Build a Dream On. IN CONCERT: Carnegie, Alice Tully, Avery Fisher Halls, Jazz At Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Tanglewood, Montreal, JVC, Jazz Festivals, Algonquin Oak Room, the Café Carlyle in New York. CO-HOST: Nationally, syndicated weekly, show called Radio Deluxe (WMET in DC).

 

Matthew Risch BROADWAY: Pal Joey (Joey Evans), Legally Blonde (Carlos), Chicago (Sgt. Fogarty). FILM/TV: Sex and the City 2, Gossip Girl, Lipstick Jungle. TOUR/REGIONAL: Joseph...Dreamcoat (Levi), Hair (Woof), A Chorus Line (Greg).

 

Diane Sutherland BROADWAY: The Light in the Piazza, She Loves Me (Amalia-1994 Revival), 1776, Three Sisters, Song and Dance, Cats (original company), A Chorus Line. OFF-BROADWAY: Transport Group: First Ladies Suite, Requiem for William; The Waves. NATIONAL TOURS: The Light in the Piazza, Guys & Dolls (50th Anniversary Tour), Cabaret, Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, (First National Tour) Cats (Helen Hayes Award). REGIONAL: A Civil War Christmas, Kiss Me Kate, Enter the Guardsman, Edwin Drood, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, American Vaudeville. RECORDINGS: She Loves Me (1994), Guys & Dolls (50th Anniversary), Gershwin's Tell Me More, Man with a Load of Mischief (2004).

 

Tony Yazbeck BROADWAY: Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Phil Davis), Gypsy w/ Patti LuPone (Tulsa) (Outer Critics Circle nomination.), A Chorus Line (Al), Oklahoma!, Never Gonna Dance, Gypsy w/Tyne Daly. OFF-BROADWAY: Encores!: On The Town (Gabey), Gypsy (Tulsa), Pardon My English, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Apple Tree.; York Theatre Co: Fanny Hill. REGIONAL: Goodman: Animal Crackers (Wally Winston/Doucet); Trinity Rep: West Side Story (Tony); Toronto: White Christmas (Phil); Maine State: Crazy for You (Bobby); PittsburghCLO: Copacabana (Tony). NATIONAL TOURS: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Annie Get Your Gun, Doctor Dolittle. FILM/TV: All My Children, As The World Turns, Every Little Step (feature documentary), PBS South Pacific concert w/Reba McIntyre. www.tonyyazbeck.net.

 

Watch an interview with Ricky Ian Gordon about his inspiration for Sycamore Trees.

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