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Reading of New Musical Monsters, with Huffman, Franz and Harada, Presented Feb. 18
By Andrew Gans
18 Feb 2008
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Tony winner Cady Huffman
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A by-invitation-only reading of the new musical Monsters will be presented Feb. 18 in Manhattan.
Directed by Steven Yuhasz, the cast boasts Tony Award-winning Producers star Cady Huffman as well as Joy Franz, Ann Harada, Nicolette Hart, Kate Pazakis and Carlos Encinias. Jason Loffredo is the musical director.
Monsters features book and lyrics by playwright Gail Phaneuf and music and lyrics are by composer Ernie Lijoi.
The musical, according to press notes, is described as such: "On her 40th birthday, Samantha [Huffman] meets her demons. A successful, single, Wall Street stockbroker living in Manhattan, she has decided to quit her job and strike out on a soul-searching adventure. When she delivers this news to her visiting mother, including her plans to trek in Machu Picchu, mother moves into action. She tries desperately to convince Samantha to be sensible: to keep her job, to keep climbing the ladder, to trim up so she might find a husband.
"Firm in her resolve to strike out on a new path, Samantha tells her mother no and sends her on her way. But the echo of her mother's words stirs up a toxic blend of familiar fears and insecurities — embodied by living, breathing 'monsters.' Samantha spends a zany and frantic day defending her plan to overhaul her life, as the demons descend upon her one by one. In a hilarious musical romp, they try to derail her ambitions, sink her spirits, and drag her into their paranoid world. In the end, Samantha finds an unlikely ally in this battle of wills, in a twist that helps her put the demons in their place."
About their work, co-creators Phaneuf and Lijoi said in a recent statement, "Monsters allows us to laugh at our demons and put them in their place, while capturing the humor, agony and insight experienced at one of life's milestones."
Monsters was a finalist in the Emerson College Rod Parker Playwriting Competition and was produced in 2006 at CentaStage in Boston. For more information visit www.monstersthemusical.com.
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