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Love’s Fire Benefit Play Reading a Huge Success for Opening Act
On September 25th, 2007, Andrew McCarthy (St. Elmo’s Fire, Pretty in Pink, ABC’s Kingdom Hospital, NBC’s E-Ring) directed an all-star reading of Love’s Fire at New World Stages in Manhattan to benefit Opening Act.
The star-studded cast included Tony Award winner Frank Wood (Broadway’s Side Man, Hollywood Arms), soap star Alicia Minshew (All My Children), Daniel Reichard (Broadway’s Jersey Boys), Tony nominated Amelia Campbell (Broadway’s Our Country’s Good, The Herbal Bed), Keith Byron Kirk (Broadway’s Miss Saigon, The Civil War, The Grapes of Wrath), Harriett D. Foy (Broadway’s Once on This Island, Mamma Mia!), Zoe Lister-Jones (Second Stage’s The Little Dog Laughed ), Michael Mastro (Broadway’s Twelve Angry Men and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Kissing Jessica Stein) and Keith Nobbs (Broadway’s The Lion in Winter). Four Opening Act students also performed in the reading — Charlene Beaubrun, Donslow Brown, AJ Ortiz and Sharvonne Williams.
The selected Love’s Fire plays, inspired by Shakespearean sonnets, were written by Eric Bogosian, William Finn, Marsha Norman and Ntozake Shange.
Love’s Fire was produced by special arrangement with The Acting Company. |
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Andrew McCarthy. |
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Love’s Fire Honorary Committee
Kristen Bell Marc Bruni Liz Diamond Sutton Foster Matthew Friedman Michael Longoria Eric Millegan Matthew Morrison Christopher Murney Rasta Thomas |
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Above: Andrew McCarthy directs Daniel Reichard and Keith Nobbs in William Finn’s ‘Painting You’.
Above right: Keith Byron Kirk and Love's Fire producer Suzy Myers.
Right: Mamma Mia's Britt Shubow congratulates Love's Fire pianist Adam Gwon.
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Above Right: Alicia Minshew, Victor Slezak, Zoe Lister-Jones, Amelia Campbell, Michael Mastro and Andrew McCarthy.
Right: Harriett D. Foy after performing Ntozake Shange’s ‘Hydraulics Phat Like Mean’.
Far right: Alicia Minshew with Opening Act student AJ Ortiz. |
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Above: Keith Nobbs and Zoe Lister-Jones after performing Eric Bogosian's 'Bitter Sauce.'
Casting Director Michael Cassara and Amelia Campbell. |
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to Opening Act online. |