Spotlight on Business & Entertainment #59
What happens when you have a hobo, a mongoose, a cobra, a horse, a whale and a rooster ? No you don’t have a zoo and it’s keeper you have big drama ! You also have a Sandra No or really Sandra Nordgren , Producing Artistic Director and Literary Manager for the Thirteenth Street Repertory Company founded by Edith O’Hara still the active Artistic Director since 1972 the theater is still located at 50 West 13th street, tel. 212-675-6677. Along with Sandra we have Playwrighter Robert Firpo-Cappiello and Director Scott Rodrigue telling us all about the one-man folk musical Beggars Rain that runs every last Thursday of the month at 9 pm so next shows are May 28th and June 25th all of it performed by Emmy nominee Robert.. The new solo musical about a hobo on a train during the Depression finds himself a hero after saving a runaway. Director Scott also a fight director and former student from completing a summer internship at 13th st Rep Co.has to direct one person in acting out all the other parts, not an easy task. Also playing at the theater is a play about a War relatively speaking called Finding the Rooster which opened May 8th and is closing June 7th Fri. and Sat. at 7p.m. and Sun. at 3:30 p.m. Sandra known well for her critically acclaimed adaptation of a Christmas Carol a must see every year next to Madison Square Gardens wants everyone to know about the New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest which she developed in 2003. To learn more about it go to www.playwritingcontest.cjb.net and for scheduling of shows and all that has happened and going on at the theater go to www.13thstreetrep.org . To purchase tix go to www.theatermania.com or call 212-352-3101. And speaking of theatermania you can also purchase tix to Manhattan Children’s Theatre’s hot bollywood show called Rikki Tikki Tavi an adaptation from MCT’s Artistic Director Bruce Merrill and here to tell us all about is Managing Director and actor Chris Alonzo. The very colorful musical play opened April 18th and closes May 24th It’s a story of how a mongoose saves a human family from deadly cobras that want to take over their garden. He also fills us in on MCT’s summer acting program that begins July 13 for ages 4-7. To learn about more of this and all the shows going on at MCT got to www.mctny.org or call 212-226-4085. Last but not least we have animal lover and in this case horse lover Martita Goshen dancer and choreographer on the phone sharing with us other horse lovers her newest dance piece called Other Intelligence, An Odyssey which is a tribute to the other worldly power,heart and beauty of the Kentucky Derby winner champion race horse Barbaro. Martita has based many of her works on the rhythms and intricacies of nature ancient and prehistoric cultures, and animals. Other Intelligence will be at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 450 West 37th st. and tix can be purchased online at www.smarttix.com. After speaking to Martita we all had a whale of a time and we should mention how she is Dancing to Save Wildlife from the time she looked into the eye of a whale she found her vocation creating dances to inspire the respect for wildlife. You can visit her and dance your way on to www.martitagoshen.org for more info.May her dance Whale Song forever hum in our ears and her dance Other Intelligence An Odyssey gallop along into the sunset.
