Dates for Austentatious and Emma at New York Musical Theatre Festival
We’re very excited about this! As we previously reported, two Jane Austen-related plays will be produced as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival in September and October 2007. Memberships can be purchased now; single tickets go on sale on August 1; no price information seems to be available yet.
Austentatious, which we saw at the Philly Fringe Festival last autumn, is a hilarious musical about a community theater group putting on the worst production of Pride and Prejudice ever. Performance dates are scattered throughout September at the Julia Miles Theater on West 55th Street. Listen to three songs from the show.
Emma is a more traditional staging and will be performed the first week and weekend of October (unfortunately the same weekend as the JASNA AGM) at the Acorn Theatre on West 42nd Street. There also is a sample song available (Mr. Knightley’s proposal! Swoooon!).
