The Tin Pan Alley Rag

January 17 - February 5, 2006

By Mark Saltzman

Creative Team:

Jiri Zizka, Director
George Faison, Choreographer
Brad Ellis, Musical Director
David Gordon, Scenic Designer
Vickie Esposito, Costume Designer
Jerry Forsythe, Lighting Designer
Carl Casella and T. Richard Fitzgerald, Sound Designers
Julie A. Richardson, Stage Manager
Justin Scribner, Assistant Stage Manager
Sarah Rossman, Assistant Stage Manager
Jerry Beaver, Casting Director

Description:

A meeting between Irving Berlin and Scott Joplin generates surprisingly entertaining and dramatic musical fireworks. When the aging Scott Joplin happens into young Irving Berlin’s office in search of a publisher, a musical discourse unfolds highlighting influential and emotional moments from each of their lives. This bracingly original piece contrasts the ironic similarities and differences between the men to sustaining surge of their musical compositions.