TODAY IN N.Y.STATE: FORT SALEM THEATER PRESENTS ORIGINAL MUSICAL
Imagine the surprise for a young girl looking to start a career in Hollywood when she drops into an agent's office and the agent asks her if her mother were arguably the most famous singer/actress in show business. "Are you adopted?" he asks, matter-of-fact-like. "As a matter of fact," she responds, "I am." Thus began the real life quest for identity of Kate Brex, whose personal story has been transformed into StarCrossed, A Musical Tale of Triumph and Tragedy in Old Hollywood, opens on Friday, August 13th at the MAINSTAGE AT FORT SALEM THEATER (11 East Broadway, Salem, NY - 518-854-9200 - ). StarCrossed plays Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 2:00 pm, August 13th through 22nd. Written with a score reminiscent of forties film musicals by the Fort's artistic director, Jay Kerr, and a book by Salem playwright Al Budde, this musical-a-clef takes Brex's story, changes some names, and turns a real-life quest for identity into song, dance, and a story that is at once amusing and heart-warming. Jay Kerr was married to Brex during the seventies, when she was looking not to cash in on her suspected heritage, but to prove that the celebrity in question could not possibly be her mother. Starring as the young actress, Andrea Green, from Greenwich and New York City, is joined by news anchor Benita Zahn, celebrity impersonator Laura Roth, and two Broadway performers, Robert Silver and Jim Raposas. Peter Kidd, a Philadelphia-based attorney and actor, who, while at Princeton University, studied writing for musical theater with Kerr, is cast as the character loosely based on his former instructor. Additional casting includes Albany professionals and Fort regulars Susan Cicarelli Caputo and Gordon Hazzard, and local performers Shelley Dean, of Salem, and Ron Nagle, of Dorset, VT. Call for information.
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