FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Kitchen Theatre Company Announces Cast of PRECIOUS NONSENSE

For Immediate Release September 15, 2016

Contact: Lesley Greene, Associate Producing Director at (607) 272-0403 or [email protected]. Photos available upon request.

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR 2016-27 ON SALE NOW: $90-$245. To purchase, call (607) 272-0570, or visit the Kitchen offices (409 W. State St.) Monday-Friday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM and at the theater (417 W. State St.) Saturday-Sunday, 12:00-4:00 PM
TICKETS: $15-$40. To purchase, call (607) 272-0570, visit the Kitchen offices (409 W. State St.) Monday-Friday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM and the theater (417 W. State St.) Saturday-Sunday, 12:00-4:00 PM, or click www.kitchentheatre.org
WEBSITE: For more information about Kitchen Theatre Company, visit www.kitchentheatre.org

Cast Announced For Kitchen Theatre Company's Precious Nonsense

Ithaca, NY: Kitchen Theatre Company's second show of the 2016/2017 season is Precious Nonsense by Rachel Lampert directed by Sara Lampert Hoover, on stage October 16- November 8.

Kitchen Theatre Company's outstanding cast for Precious Nonsense includes Broadway veteran Lydia Gaston* (Angelina), original Precious Nonsense cast member Eric Brooks* (RDC Carter), KTC favorite Emily Jackson, and five other New York City-based actor/singers making their Kitchen Theatre Company debuts:

Patric Halley* (Pete), Weston Allen Kemp (Samuel), Jillian Gottlieb* (Josephine), Coleman Hemsath (Frederic) and Thomas Conroy (Herbie/Music Director). *Members of Actors Equity Association.

Synopsis: It's 1939, and the Depression has reduced the Carter Family Savoyard from a thriving theatrical company to a troupe of four singers. When a theater manager insists that they perform a full version of Pirates of Penzance, anyone and everyone is recruited to make it happen. Precious Nonsense is a backstage/onstage, tour de force for seven players, packed with mistaken identities, romantic entanglements on the boards and in the dressing rooms and a do-or-die determination that gender-bending role-playing. Fun for the whole family. (Ages 7+)

The creative team includes: Sarah Frank (Set Designer), Erik Herskowitz (Lighting Design), Lisa Boquist (Costume Design), Thomas Conroy (Music Director), Jen Schilansky (Stage Manager) and returning director Sara Lampert Hoover, who was at the helm of the play's world premiere in 2004.

Precious Nonsense has the co-producing sponsorship of Tompkins Trust Company and sponsorship of Cornell University Recruitment and Employment Center, Big Red Bullet and the media sponsorship of Lansing Star Online.

Previews begin Sunday October 16 with Opening Night Thursday October 20.Tickets are available by calling (607) 272-0570 or on line at www.kitchentheatre.org

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DETAILS FOR CALENDAR LISTINGS - Precious Nonsense

WHAT:

Precious Nonsense by Rachel Lampert with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan

October 16-November 6

Directed by Sara Lampert Hoover

Ages 7+

Sun, Oct 16 @ 4:00 - PREVIEW, TALKBACK

Tues, Oct 18 @ 7:00 - PREVIEW, TALKBACK, PAY WHAT YOU CAN NIGHT

Wed, Oct 19 @ 7:30 - PREVIEW, TALKBACK

Thurs, Oct 20 @ 7:30 - OPENING NIGHT

Fri, Oct 21 @ 8:00 - TALKBACK

Sat, Oct 22 @ 8:00

Sun, Oct 23 @ 4:00

Wed, Oct 26 @ 7:30

Thurs, Oct 27 @ 2:00 & 7:30

Fri, Oct 28 @ 8:00 - TALKBACK, WINE TASTING, UNDER-40 NIGHT

Sat, Oct 29 @ 8:00

Sun, Oct 30 @ 4:00

Wed, Nov 2 @ 7:30 - PRESHOW TALK at 6:30 PM. "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore: Life with Gilbert and Sullivan." Opera singer Steve Stull and choreographer Jeanne Goddard talk about Gilbert & Sullivan then and now.

Thurs, Nov 3 @ 7:30

Fri, Nov 4 @ 8:00

Sat, Nov 5 @ 8:00

Sun Nov 6 @ 4:00

WHERE:

Kitchen Theatre Company
417 W. State/MLK, Jr. St. Ithaca, NY 14850

SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE NOW: $90-$245. To purchase, call (607) 272-0570, or visit the Kitchen offices (409 W. State St.) Monday-Friday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM and at the theater (417 W. State St.) Saturday-Sunday, 12:00-4:00 PM.

TICKETS AVAILABLE: $15-$40. To purchase, call (607) 272-0570, visit the Kitchen offices (409 W. State St.) Monday-Friday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM and at the theater (417 W. State St.) Saturday-Sunday, 12:00-4:00 PM, or click www.kitchentheatre.org.

ABOUT:

Bold, intimate, engaging... Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC), now beginning its 26th season, is downtown Ithaca's critically acclaimed and nationally recognized year-round professional theater company, specializing in regional and world premiere plays and musicals. KTC's intimate 99-seat theater is in a beautifully renovated, LEED-certified building in the West End neighborhood of downtown Ithaca, New York. KTC is the first not-for-profit recipient of the David R. Strong Memorial "Small Business of the Year" Award from the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce and receives public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the Tompkins County Tourism Program. The Kitchen Theatre Company also receives general operating support from the Shubert Foundation.

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Kitchen Theatre Company
417 W. State / MLK, Jr. St
Ithaca, New York 14850