CollaborationTown's 2010 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winner for Best Play returns
January 19 - February 16 at Laurie Beechman Theatre
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"Hilarious, brilliant, insightful, challenging, philosophical, and inspirational." -- nytheatre.com
"I’ve been to plenty of shows that have made me laugh, and a few that have brought me to tears, but can not remember the last time I did both -genuinely- at the same time." - Happiest Medium
"Under the guise of some earnest comedy, it may ring some chords on your heartstrings." -- That Sounds Cool
"A hilarious experience, best shared." -- Reviews Off-Broadway
“Made an indelible impact … exquisite” -- The Advocate (FringeNYC)
“Amazing… really a joy to watch” -- nytheatre.com (FringeNYC)
“Like a breath of fresh air… a must see” -- MusicOMH (FringeNYC)
Just in time to kick off the New Year -- a.k.a. “self-improvement season” -- CollaborationTown will present a return engagement of THE MOMENTUM, an ensemble-created satire on the self-help phenomenon. The play was the recipient of the 2010 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Best Play. Directed by Lee Sunday Evans (Associate Director of Young Jean Lee’s Lear), and co-created by TJ Witham, performances begin January 19th at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. Opening night is slated for Wednesday, January 26th at 7pm.
Forget “The Secret.” Change your life when you fulfill your vibrational destiny through THE MOMENTUM, a self-help-sploitation that asks: Unhappy? Listless? Broke? Alone? Depressed? Shoeless? Let the Laws of Attraction massage your vibrations and pull you into the Gaping Hole of Momentum. There, you'll eventually learn it's not what you don't have that matters, but what you think you want to have but don't yet. Remember: It’s not self-help if you don’t help self.
THE MOMENTUM features three of CollaborationTown’s founding members: Geoffrey Decas (Best Playwright at FringeNYC 2006 for The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos), Boo Killebrew (Best Actor at FringeNYC 2003 for This is A Newspaper, 2007 NYIT Award for Best Featured Actress in 6969), and Jordan Seavey (author of Children at Play and 6969; member of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writer’s Group).
Lee Sunday Evans is a director, choreographer and teaching artist. As the Associate Director of Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company: The Shipment (Wexner Center, The Kitchen) and LEAR (Soho Rep). Recent directing credits include Prague (The Jam, New Georges), Full (The Tank), The Next Thing (Williamstown Workshop). As choreographer: Big Money, a new musical by Kyle Jarrow and Nathan Leigh (Williamstown); Godspell (Olney Theater Center). For CollaborationTown: The Momentum; Boo Killebrew's The Play About My Dad (59E59 Summer 2011).
CollaborationTown is a non-profit theatre company that steps outside individual, traditional roles in order to unify different styles, opinions, emotions, backgrounds and philosophies into cohesive ensemble-driven pieces of theatre. Past productions include Children at Play (two 2010 NYIT Award nominations, The Living Theatre), Let’s Go, Townville (La MaMa E.T.C.), 6969 (59E59 Theaters; winner of three Innovative Theatre Awards), The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos (FringeNYC 2006 Award Winner), They’re Just Like Us (nominated for four 2006 NYIT Awards), The Astronomer’s Triangle (nominated for four 2005 NYIT Awards), The Trading Floor, This is a Newspaper (FringeNYC 2003 Award Winner), and Dante’s Inferno.
THE MOMENTUM runs January 19 - February 16, Wednesdays at 7pm. The Laurie Beechman Theatre (inside West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42nd Street -- at Ninth Avenue, accessible from the A,C,E,N,R,V,F,1,2,3 trains at 42nd Street). Tickets are $18 with a $15 food/drink minimum per person, available at 212-352-3101 or www.SpinCycleNYC.com.
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NOTE: THE MOMENTUM will also run in Boston in May as partr of The Emerging America Festival, a collaboration between American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (www.emergingamericafestival.org).