Prospect Theater Company Continues PORTRAITS Through 3/1

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) will present eight new musical shorts by some of NYC's most exciting emerging musical theater writers, the result of work created in the company's 6th annual musical theater lab.

From a crisp black and white, to a sepia daguerreotype, to the rich shades of a classic canvas, every portrait tells a story. Join Prospect for this evening of eight short original musicals inspired by incredible images and created by the eighteen writers in this year's musical theater lab. The eight participating writing teams were selected through a competitive open application process on November. In December, each team was assigned a portrait, which was used as the inspiration to create a brief musical. These short new works were workshopped during January and will be performed from February 22nd through March 1st, 2013.

Performances will be held at the West End Theatre in the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew (263 West 86th St.). Tickets ($18) may be purchased by calling 212-352-3101 or by visiting www.ProspectTheater.org. Tickets will also be available for purchase at the door, beginning one hour prior to curtain.

The performance schedule is as follows: Friday, February 22 at 8pm; Saturday, February 23 at 8pm; Sunday, February 24 at 2pm; Monday, February 25 at 7:30pm; Thursday, February 28 at 7:30pm; and Friday, March 1 at 8pm.

The program features short original musicals written by Sammy Buck & Daniel S. Acquisto; EllaRose Chary & Sooyeon Lee; Cory Finley, Mark Sonnenblick, & Stephen Feigenbaum; Kevin Hammonds & Kristin Bair; Andrea Lepcio & Kevin Ray; Yasmine Lever, Sarah Hirsch, & Joey Contreras; Sam Salmond & Anna K. Jacobs; and Deborah Savadge & Sheilah Rae. For detailed writer bios, see below.

PORTRAITS is directed by Prospect's Associate Artistic Director Dev Bondarin and music directed by Andrea Grody. The cast includes Ally Bonino (Myths and Hymns), Emily Borromeo, Jennifer Fouché, Laura Hankin (I Married Wyatt Earp), Aaron Riesebeck, Mel Sagrado Maghuyop (Honor), Bruce Sabath (John Doyle's Company on Broadway) and Matt Wolfe (Scandalous on Broadway). Stage Management is by Taylor Alyssa Marun. The project was curated by Cara Reichel and Dev Bondarin.

For more information, please visit www.ProspectTheater.org.