05 Mar 2001
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| Gloria Girls Carrie Brewer and Bevin Kaye |
After enjoying a Oct. 5-21 run at Theatre for the New City in lower Manhattan, the Lady Cavaliers first production of Peter Hilton's Gloria are thirsting for more. At what they are calling a "backers' audition," the Lady Cavaliers will entertain trade and industry people in the hopes to take the show Off-Broadway, Playbill On-Line has learned. The event will showcase about 45 minutes of selections from the show and take place over three days, March 5-7 at the Westbeth Theatre Center.
After enjoying a Oct. 5-21 run at Theatre for the New City in lower Manhattan, the Lady Cavaliers first production of Peter Hilton's Gloria are thirsting for more. At what they are calling a "backers' audition," the Lady Cavaliers will entertain trade and industry people in the hopes to take the show Off-Broadway, Playbill On-Line has learned. The event will showcase about 45 minutes of selections from the show and take place over three days, March 5-7 at the Westbeth Theatre Center.
In this all-female swashbuckling new tale in verse, a young princess journeys to find the truth take her on a voyage of fantasy complete with rebellious prostitutes, magical trees, heroic nuns, and a thwarting beast.
The Lady Cavaliers was created by Carrie Brewer when, as she says in a statement, she "saw how many women in New York City have extraordinary stage combat skills and rarely get a chance to use them." For Gloria they put out a call for "female actors who fight" and cast the show with actresses that handled rapiers, daggers, and quarterstaves to candlesticks and kangaroo hide bullwhips.
— by Ernio Hernandez
