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Karen Mason, Chris Hoch, Don Burroughs, Christopher Harrod, and Rebekah Melocik will join the previously reported Traci Bair, Cicily Daniels, John Jellison, Kevin Vortmann, Tiffany Westlie, and Laura Woyasz for UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc.’s exploratory reading of the 1950 musical comedy Arms and the Girl, at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Creative Center on Thursday, May 26 at 3pm. Nick Corley will direct, with music direction by Rick Hip-Flores.
Based on the play The Pursuit of Happiness by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall, the musical has a book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields and Rouben Mamoulian, music by Morton Gould, and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Set during the Revolutionary War, it tells the tale of Jo Kirkland, a fiery patriotic tomboy who haphazardly falls in love while aiming to save the Continental Army from a British spy.
The reading is part of The Archival Project, a UMC initiative aimed at researching, assembling and restoring the material from unpublished and out-of-print musical shows.
The reading is open to the public. To RSVP, visit www.UnsungMusicals.org.
