My Vaudeville Man!
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 17, 2008
Closed Jan 4, 2009
Opened Nov 17, 2008
Closed Jan 4, 2009
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The York Theatre Company presents the Off-Broadway premiere of the new musical, My Vaudeville Man!, the story of a boy born to dance and the mother who fought to keep him home! Karen Murphy and Shonn Wiley star in a musical based on the life of legendary eccentric tap dancer Jack Donahue and his mother -- who fights to keep her son off the wicked vaudeville stage.
The show has a book by Jeff Hochhauser, music by Bob Johnston, and lyrics by Johnston and Hochhauser, based on Jack Donahue's Letters of a Hoofer to his Ma. Lynne Taylor-Corbett directs and choreographs with Shonn Wiley serving as co-choreographer.
Friday December 5th, following the 8:00 pm performance:
A TALK WITH BOB FITCH & BERT MICHAELS
Enjoy a chat with beloved Broadway veteran dancers Bob Fitch (Annie, Tenderloin, Mack & Mabel, among many others) and Bert Michaels (Cabaret, Baker Street, Sugar, among many others). Both beloved and skilled eccentric dancers themselves, they will discuss eccentric dance in Donahue's day as well as today.
Saturday December 6th, following the 3 pm matinee:
ECCENTRIC TAPPERS ON STAGE AND FILM
Join the star of My Vaudeville Man!, Shonn Wiley as he leads you through a look at the eccentric dancers of Donahue's era and beyond, as captured on film: discover the talents of Marilyn Miller, James Cagney, Buddy Ebsen (with his sister Velma), Jack Donahue protégé Eleanor Powell and Jack's understudy and brother Joe Donahue. Joining Shonn will be My Vaudeville Man! co-creator Jeff Hochhauser.
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York Theatre Company
Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10128
The York Theater Company bases its self here in this midtown venue in the basement of St. Peter's Church at CitiCorp. Wheelchair accessible and very comfortable the theater produces a season of new plays and musicals including the occassional cabare [...] Read More
Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10128
The York Theater Company bases its self here in this midtown venue in the basement of St. Peter's Church at CitiCorp. Wheelchair accessible and very comfortable the theater produces a season of new plays and musicals including the occassional cabare [...] Read More
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Life upon -- and behind -- the wicked stage has proved an irresistible subject for scores of musical theatre writers, and Jeff Hochauser and Bob Johnston have proved no exception with My Vaudeville Man!, which has arrived in a full production at the York Theatre Company after years of readings and a presentation last year at NYMF (under the title Mud Donahue and Son). But true fullness is what this underdeveloped two-character show really needs to add up to more than the rather slight entertainment now greeting audiences.
The show, told primarily in the form of letters, is based on the true story of Julia "Mud" Donahue (Karen Murphy), the long-suffering Irish wife and mother who disapprove[...]