The Pursuit of Persephone (Prospect Theater Company)
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 30, 2005
Closed May 22, 2005

Playing at
Connelly Theater

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Running Time:
2hr. 20min.
(includes 1 intermission)

FESTIVAL INFORMATION:

This show is part of the Two-Fer Two Weeks Festival.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Prospect Theater Company
presents
The Pursuit of Persephone
A New Musical based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel
music and lyrics by Peter Mills
directed by Cara Reichel

***World Premiere****

The world on the cusp of chaos in the First World War. A brilliant and talented young man on the cusp of adulthood swept into the hierarchy of Ivy League society. A beautiful and elusive debutante, forever out of reach. Inspired by the true story of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald's novel This Side of Paradise, The Pursuit of Persephone is a new musical by Prospect's resident composer Pete Mills and Artistic Director Cara Reichel, whose former collaborations include The Alchemists, Dido & Aeneas, The Flood, Taxi Cabaret (presented this year at the New York Musical Festival) and Illyria (presented this year by the New Jersey Shakespeare Company.)

Talk Back Performance: Buy tickets for the performance on May 15 and join us for a post show discussion with James L.W West III, author of The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love.

Take advantage of Dinner and a Show May 21!
Enjoy a relaxed dinner before the show with fellow theater-goers, as well as with Prospect's founding members. In addition, a special artistic guest will be present at the dinner to speak about the process of creating the show, and to answer questions. A $50 Patron Dinner ticket covers a pre-dinner drink, a prix-fixe three-course meal (salad, entrée, and dessert / coffee), and a glass of wine with dinner. Additionally, patron dinner participants will receive reserved, prime seating at the performance with their group, so there's no need to worry about rushing to the theater to get good seats. Dinner will begin at 6:15 p.m. prior to the 8:00 p.m. performance, at Le Zoccole, 95 Avenue A (East Village) at 6th St.

Performance Schedule:
Saturday, April 30 at 8 pm
Sunday, May 1 at 3 pm
Monday, May 2 at 8 pm
Thursday, 5 at 8 pm
Friday, May 6 at 8 pm
Saturday, May 7 at 8 pm
Sunday, May 8 at 3 pm
Thursday, May 12 at 8 pm
Friday, May 13 at 8 pm
Saturday, May 14 at 8 pm
Sunday, May 15 at 3 pm* Talkback Performance
Wednesday, 18 at 8 pm
Thursday, May 19 at 8 pm
Friday, May 20 at 8 pm
Saturday, May 21 at 8 pm * Dinner & Show Available
Sunday, May 22 at 3 pm

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Connelly Theater
220 E 4th St
New York, NY 10009

This theater is located inside the Connelly Center, a school for neighborhood girls from economically disadvantaged families. This miniature opera house has a beautiful mainstage that was formerly a gymnasium. There is also a black box on the premi [...] Read More

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Raw talent isn't visible to the naked eye, but you sure know it when you see it -- and hear it. Songwriter Peter Mills has it. He's up to his eyeballs in it, and he's been flaunting it in small-ish Manhattan venues for a number of years. Right now, he's showing his astonishing abilities in a musical titled The Pursuit of Persephone, which is -- get ready for this -- a fictionalized account of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Princeton days shuffled with Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise.

Ambitious? Yes. Are Mills and his co-librettist and wife, Cara Reichel, up to it? The answer is: almost. There's no questioning Mill's tunesmithing skills; in the two-act Pursuit of Persephone, jubila[...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on May 5, 2005