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Ordway and Elephant Eye Theatrical head to Broadway with The Addams Family
Tue, Feb 2, 2010 10:54 AM by Ryan Jones
In 2005, Ordway joined four other nationally-renowned performing arts organizations – the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in Boston, The Bushnell in Hartford, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera Association in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust – in forming the producing consortium Five Cent Productions, LLC. Following this formation, Five Cent Productions joined former Disney Theatrical Productions Executive Vice President Stuart Oken and Tony Award-winning producer Michael Leavitt as a producing partner in Elephant Eye Theatrical.
Elephant Eye Theatrical is a theatrical development and production company that creates new book musicals for Broadway and beyond. The company finds and initiates projects, assemble creative teams, fund the genesis and ongoing evolution of the projects, and serve as lead producer when the projects are fully staged. While The Bushnell remains a presenting theater, producing new works allows us to have ownership, exclusivity and, ultimately, profitability from the projects we help create.
This year, Elephant Eye Theatrical and Five Cent Productions has some very exciting news to report - the brand-new The Addams Family musical will be taking Broadway by storm in spring 2010.
Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth lead a talented cast taking on this bizarre and beloved family of characters, who were created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. The book is by Tony Award-winning writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), the score by Drama Desk award-winning composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) and direction by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter).
The world premiere engagement of The Addams Family opens at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre in Chicago on Friday, November 13, 2009, and Broadway previews begin at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on March 4, 2010, with opening night scheduled for April 8, 2010.
To buy tickets, meet the family, and get an insider’s look a the process of creating The Addams Family, visit www.theaddamsfamilymusical.com
Please continue to stop by for new information about our producing efforts with Five Cent Productions and Elephant Eye Theatrical!
Posted in Elephant Eye, Addams Family
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