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Ray will be performing in

ZORBÁ

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42nd Street Moon

May 2 – 20, 2012
ZORBÁ (1968)

Book by Joseph Stein
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Based on the book Zorbá the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Directed by Greg MacKellan

Destination: Athens, 1960s, Crete, 1920s

A RICH, UNCOMPROMISING MUSICAL SALUTE TO GREECE – AND THE SPIRIT OF LIFE!

ZORBÁ celebrates life – the sound of a bouzouki, the taste of an olive, the scent of a woman – but also lost love, heartbreak and death. “Live life to the fullest until it’s time to leave!” Featuring the songs: Life Is; The Butterfly; Only Love; Why Can’t I Speak?; and I Am Free.

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Nymph Errant

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42nd Street Moon

October 5 - 23, 2011

Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Romney Brent
Based on the book by James Laver
Directed by Greg MacKellan

Destination: 1930s Oxford, Lausanne, Neauville, Venice, Athens, Istanbul and Paris

COLE PORTER’S OWN FAVORITE OF HIS SHOWS – A SEXY, MADCAP TOUR OF 1930s EUROPE!

A newly graduated English schoolgirl sets off to experiment with life. She travels the continent in search of adventure, romance and sex – but even in the most exotic locales, a torrid affair eludes her. Featuring the songs: The Physician, Experiment, How Could We Be Wrong?, It’s Bad for Me, Solomon.

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Silk Stockings

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42nd Street Moon

May 4 – 22, 2011

Cole Porter's final Broadway Score

Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath & Abe Burrows
Directed by Greg MacKellan

The Cold War turns hot in Cole Porter’s final Broadway musical, a sly and sophisticated version of the classic film Ninotchka.

Ninotchka, a stern Russian commissar, is seduced by the joys of Paris and the charms of an American film agent, Steve Canfield. Wacky Hollywood star Janice Dayton, a Russian composer and three errant commissars add to the merrymaking. Porter’s legendary wit is in top form in a dazzling collection of comic songs — Stereophonic Sound, Satin and Silk, Josephine, Siberia, and beautiful ballads — the classic All of You, Paris Loves Lovers, As On Through the Seasons We Sail.

“Everything about Silk Stockings is the best Broadway has to offer — songs and script are the most memorable we’ve seen and heard since Guys and Dolls.”

— Brooks Atkinson, NY Times

 

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Ray will be performing in

Ctrl+Alt+Delete

BY ANTHONY CLARVOE

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The Pear Avenue Theatre

• November 5 - 21, 2010

At the beginning of a new century, Silicon Valley’s prime mover and shaker is looking to market the Next New Thing. A young man pitches what seems to be a tantalizing but impossible concept: a miraculous “gizmo” that is part cell phone, part computer, addictive as all get out. Never mind that such a contraption cannot be made. (Or can it?) A wildly funny play by the author of Pick Up Ax.   

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Ray will be directing

Death of a Salesman

BY ARTHUR MILLER

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The Pear Avenue Theatre

• February 25 – March 20, 2011

This iconic and moving work, widely regarded as THE defining American drama, is the heartbreaking story of an ordinary man with extraordinary, and ultimately self-destructive, expectations. Called a “working –class Oedipus Rex,” Miller’s play led all others in a recent nationwide survey of playwrights, scholars, and educators asked to name the ten most important American plays.   

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Recently Completed Projects

 

Monday, June 14th at 7:30 PM at The Eureka Theatre in San Francisco

Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets

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Playing the role of Pridamant
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Playing multiple roles
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Directing
Speed the Plow
by David Mamet
Opens January 8th, 2010
The Pear Avenue Theatre