NewsPHOTO CALL: All-Critic Project Shaw Androcles and the Lion With Roma Torre, Michael Riedel, Michael Musto and MoreThe Project Shaw series continued Jan. 24 with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion at the Players Club featuring an all-critic cast including Roma Torre, Michael Riedel, Michael Musto and more.
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Krissie Fullerton
January 25, 2011
The light comedy, according to Project Shaw notes, "follows a group of Christians faced with a horrible death in the Roman Coliseum. Based on Aesop's most famous of Fables, Shaw gives it his unique twist, incorporating his passionate plea for human rights and the importance of tolerance."
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All-Critic Project Shaw Androcles and the Lion With Roma Torre, Michael Riedel, Michael Musto and More
The cast featured David Belcher, David Cote, Frank DiLella, Joe Dziemianowicz, Michael Feingold, Adam Feldman, Peter Filichia, David Finkle, Michael Musto, Brian Scott Lipton, Jesse Oxfeld, Patrick Pacheco, Andy Propst, Michael Riedel, Michael Schulman, David Sheward, Raven Snook, Roma Torre, Elisabeth Vincentelli and Jason Zinoman.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.