GULLS

SEASON 2008

Book & Lyrics by Nick Salamone
Music by Maury McIntyre
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky

It’s 1959 in Greenwich Village and Hollywood, and a family of troubled dreamers yearns for love, immortality and survival. Irenie, a glamorous Broadway star, Gore, her novelist/screenwriter lover, Conrad, her Beat poet son, and Nina, the lovely young African-American everyone loves, engage in an epic struggle for passion and connection in this haunting new musical, rich with Chekhovian longing.

cast

Clinton Derricks-Carroll
Mark Cardiff
Will Collyer
John Keefe
Robert Mammana
Rende Rae Norman
Sabrina Sloan
Eileen T’Kaye
Grace Wall
Harrison White

production team

Musical Director – Greg Chun
Scenic Design – Michelle Ney
Costume Design – Alex Jaeger
Lighting Design – Jeremy Pivnick
Sound Design – Martin Carrillo
Properties Design – Nick Santiago
Make-up Design – Becca Coffman
Choreography – Kitty McNamee
Assistant Director – Dan Selon
Casting – Michael Donovan, CSA
Production Stage Manager – Justine Baldwin
Publicist – Aldrich & Associates
Production Photographer – Ed Krieger

“Soaring. The cast showcases…fine talent.” -LA Times

“A sweeping, gently elegant, resplendently appointed musical adaptation…evocative, heroic musical
achievement. Gulls is a major, major new musical thanks to the obvious endowments…of a scholarly book writer with his signature dark sense of humor, as well as the composer’s arrestingly evocative musical compositions, the incomparable mind’s eye view endemic to any project touched by Kubzansky’s gifts, a cast that could not be improved upon if anyone were to try, and the incredibly first-class facilities and design elements offered to any show fortunate enough to debut at the Boston Court.” – Entertainment Today

“Simply remarkable.” – Pasadena Star News

“Textured staging and wonderful performances.” – LA Weekly

“You couldn’t ask for a finer cast. All ten actors work together as a seamless ensemble of troubled souls who are desperately searching for love, meaning, and acceptance during a transitional period of history…dynamic.” – Stagehappenings.com