Cast and creative team are set for The Culture Project’s upcoming production of The Cat Who Went To Heaven, to play the The Harlem School of the Arts Theater, May 13-June 3. Will Pomerantz will direct the children’s musical, featuring music and lyrics by Nancy Harrow.
Based on the Newbery Award-winning children’s book by Elizabeth Coatsworth, Harrow’s piece is about the fates of a struggling Japanese artist, his housekeeper, a Buddhist priest from the local temple, and a cat named Good Fortune. The cast will feature Kameron Steele narrating with the singing voices of Harrow (as the title cat), Grady Tate (as the Artist), Anton Krukowski and Daryl Sherman; the puppeteers include Matt Brooks (as the Artist), Melissa Creighton (as the Cat), with Anna Sobel, Lara MacLean, Kate Katz, and Eric Wright; as well as instrumentalists Clark Terry, Kenny Barron, and Frank Wess.
The creative team will include Jane Catherine Shaw and Amanda Maddock (puppet design and construction), Amanda Maddock (costume design) and Joseph Silovsky (set design).
For more information, call or visit www.cultureproject.org.
