Atomic the Musical
Book and Lyrics by Danny Ginges and Gregory Bonsignore
Music and Lyrics by Philip Foxman
ATOMIC is the thrilling new Off-Broadway musical that blasts open the doors of The Manhattan Project, at The Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row.
Plot
A government-funded program of top scientists with the task of creating the world’s first atomic bomb. Leo Szilard is the mastermind behind atomic power, but his heart has reservations. Ethics, scientific progress, and true love are tested as Leo discovers exactly what he’s capable of when someone believes in him.
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Theatre
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Jul 13, 2014 – Open Run
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Musical, Original
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Acorn Theatre, New York, NY
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Cast (Off Broadway 2014)
| Rob Evan – Crompton / Rutherford | Broadway: Les Miserables (Valjean), Jekyll & Hyde (Jekyll & Hyde), Dance of the Vampires (Krolock), Little Shop of Horrors (the Dentist), Tarzan (Kerchak). Off-Broadway: Johnnie Guitar, The Prince & The Pauper. Recording Artist and Featured Singer in the Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Lost Christmas Eve (cert. double Platinum) & Night Castle (cert. Platinum). Creator & Producer: ROCKTOPIA, Broadway Rox!, The Rock Tenor. www.robevan.com |
| Alexis Fishman – Leona | Australia: Dusty (Young Dusty, Helpmann Nomination), Kiss of The Spiderwoman (Spiderwoman, Sydney Theatre nomination), Shout! (Marianne), Troupers (Lil, Sydney Theatre Company), Closer (Alice), Urinetown (Little Sally). NY: Der Gelbe Stern (NYMF 2014, co-writer and star) NYMF’s 2012 Next Broadway Sensation, debuted solo show at 54 Below in 2013. Graduate of WAAPA, currently completing a Masters Degree in International Relations. Alexis is proud to have entertained troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. www.alexisfishman.com |
| Sara Gettelfinger – Trude/Laverne | Most recently appeared as “Morticia” in the first national tour of The Addams Family. BROADWAY: “Dona Athene” in John Guare’s A Free Man of Color at Lincoln Center. Suessical the Musical,The Boys from Syracuse, “Carla” in Nine with Antonio Banderas, “Jolene Oakes” in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels opposite John Lithgow, as well as the first national tours of Fosse and 101 Dalmatians “Cruella De Vil”. Other NYC area credits include: “April” in Company (Helen Hayes), “Fastrada” in Pippin (Papermill Playhouse), Tenderloin and Carnival at City Center ENCORES!, Anything Goes at Lincoln Center, and “Little Edie Beale” in the world premiere of Grey Gardens at Playwrights Horizons. In 2009, Sara starred as “Fastrada” in the Deaf West production of Pippin at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum. |
| Jonathan Hammond – Fermi/Others | Broadway: Ragtime. National Tour: Light in the Piazza. Off-Broadway: Obie Award for Boys in the Band, Drama League Nom for Hello Again. Transport Group (6 Productions), Irish Rep, Theatre for a New Audience, The Public, York. Regional: Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre-DC, American Repertory Theatre, La Jolla, Baltimore Center Stage, McCarter, Actors Theatre/Louisville, NorthShore, TUTS, Kansas Starlight, Pittsburgh Public, Syracuse Stage, Barrington Stage. Recipient of Boston’s Elliot Norton & 2 IRNE awards. TV: Law and Order. Training: A.R.T. Institute – Harvard, U of M. www.jonathanhammond.com |
| Randy Harrison – Paul Tibbets/Others | Randy Harrison is best known for his portrayal of “Justin Taylor” on the Showtime series Queer as Folk and has spent much of his career on stage. Broadway: Wicked. Off-Broadway: Harbor (Primary Stages) Silence: The Musical, The Singing Forest (Public Theatre/NYSF), Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre for a New Audience), Edward II (Red Bull Theatre) and A Letter from Ethel Kennedy (MCC). Regional credits include Red (George Street Playhouse/Cleveland Playhouse) the American premiere of Alan Bennet’s The Habit of Art (Studio Theatre DC) The Glass Menagerie (Guthrie Theatre) and numerous seasons at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. NY: QWAN Company’s readings of Notes! and Swan!!! (PS122, Abrons Arts Center, Theatre 80). |
| Jeremy Kushnier – Leo | Jeremy is very excited to be part of the Atomic family. Broadway: Ren in Footloose, Roger in Rent, understudy for Jesus, Judas, and Pilate 2012 revival JCS, Tommy Devito in Jersey Boys. TV: The Good Wife, Person of Interest. www.jeremykushnier.com twitter @jeremykushnier. Thank you Damien and Atomic Team. |
| James David Larson – Ensemble | National Tour: Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Buddy Holly Story, Twelfth Night, Bunnicula. Off Broadway / NYC: Gary Goldfarb: Master Escapist (NYMF – 2013,) Malvolio’s Revenge (New York Classical Theatre.) REGIONAL: Little Women, 25th…Spelling Bee. FILM: You Are Here, Endless Us, Got No Gain. www.JamesDavidLarson.com. Thanks to JE. |
| Euan Morton – Oppenheimer | Euan moved to New York to reprise his Olivier nominated role as Boy George in the musical Taboo (earning TONY & Drama Desk nominations). Since then he has been fortunate to have been made welcome in the NYC theatre scene and in regional theatres across the US. He also performs solo concert work all over the country and in Europe and has recorded two albums as well as numerous studio projects in many genres. For more info check out: www.euanmorton.com |
| Grace Stockdale – Ensemble | Grace Stockdale is thrilled to be making her NYC debut as a part of the extraordinary cast of ATOMIC. A recent graduate of Ithaca College, Grace originally hails from Steamboat Springs, CO. Regional credits include: The Rocky Horror Show (Colombia), Legally Blonde (Brooke Whyndam), Into The Woods (Baker’s Wife), and Oklahoma (Ado Annie). A special thanks to Damien, Dean, Andy, Christine, and the entire cast and crew! |
Creative
Danny Ginges – Book & LyricsDanny Ginges has worked as copywriter, creative group head and consultant for leading advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, EURORSCG, JWT and BWM. He never planned to be a librettist, but the story of the forgotten man behind the atomic bomb has rewritten him. www.dannyginges.com
| Gregory Bonsignore – Book & Lyrics | Stage: A Matter of Fact (Resident Playwright – Library of Alexandria, Egypt), Three (Off-Broadway, City Theatre), Us & Them (Mildred’s Umbrella), development for Disney. TV: Homeland, Transformers RescueBots, Lie to Me, Three Rivers, Grierson Awards (BBC), created Squad 85 (EP- Justin Lin), Yearbook (Fox), Rare (EP- Philip Seymour Hoffman). FILM: Or Die (HBO Festival Winner). NYU. WGA. Dramatists Guild. |
| Philip Foxman – Music & Lyrics | Music: Supernaut (Bassplayer and songwriter), lIllustrated Man ( Singer/songwriter). Solo CD’s “West 4th and Charles” and “Up Antenna”. Songs featured on MTV shows, The Real World, The Hills and Behind The Music, as well as various feature films, TV commercials and stage productions. Musical: Killing Time. www.philipfoxman.com |
| Damien Gray – Direction & Musical Staging | Gray is known for developing new works. He created and directed the world premiere of Sladky Theresienstadt, which enjoyed an acclaimed two-year run at the Archa Theater in Prague and was chosen to open the Bonner Bienniale in Bonn, Germany and returned to create A Century of Lust based on the music of Nick Cave. Other commission highlights include an adaptation of the cult film Barbarella with Dave Stewart of the Eurhythmics for Live Nation and Planet Hollywood Hotel in Las Vegas, and the stage spectacular TWAS for Next Stage Entertainment.He has worked extensively in musical theater, including three seasons at the Sundance Theatre Institute directing productions of Cinderella, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and Oliver and the acclaimed Sundance revival of Gypsy staring Karan Mason. |
| Greg Graham – Choregraphy | Recently won Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Choreography for Somewhere at Hartford Stage. Credits: Ragtime in Concert at Lincoln Center, Finks at EST, Tio Pepe at The Public, Broadway Bares, Rockers On Broadway, and The Maccabi Games Opening Ceremony at The Garden. Television/Film: Ugly Betty, Celebrity Fit Club, and State of Play. |
| Christopher Jahnke – Music Producer | Orchestrations: Porgy and Bess (Tony Nomination), Les Miserables (New orchestrations), Legally Blonde, Cry Baby, Grease (2007 Revival), Do You Hear the People Sing? (Symphonic Boublil/Schonberg), Dessa Rose, A Man of No Importance, Tom Jones (Stiles/Leigh), Just So (Stiles/Drewe). Music Producer/Music Supervisor: “Memphis.” Assistant to William David Brohn: Ragtime, Sweet Smell of Success, The Witches of Eastwick, Mary Poppins, Wicked. |
| Andrew Peterson – Orchestrator/Arranger/Music Director | Andy began his training in music at the late age of 15, taking quickly to the piano and composition. ORCHESTRATION/VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Atomic (Sydney), Sinbad: The Musical (Malaysian Tour), Orpheus and the Underworld: A Rock Opera (Sydney). MUSICAL DIRECTION: Kiss Me, Kate (Chinese Tour), Atomic (Sydney), The Venetian Twins (Sydney), Pippin (Sydney), A Chorus Line (Sydney), Bare (Sydney Fringe Festival). TRAINING: Sydney Conservatorium (BA – Music Composition). |
| Jon Weston – Sound Design | Broadway: The Bridges of Madison County (Drama Desk Nom); Big Fish; How To Succeed…; The Color Purple; Caroline, or Change; Nine; Thoroughly Modern Millie. Special Event: Titanic (Avery Fisher); Family Guy, Live! (Carnegie Hall). Off-Broadway and Regional: Little Miss Sunshine (Second Stage); The Last Five Years (Second Stage); Parade (Mark Taper). |
| Faye Armon-Troncoso – Prop Supervisor/Set Dresser | Faye Armon-Troncoso is the first and only Props/Set Dresser to have won an Obie – ever! BROADWAY: Of Mice and Men (Longacre), Macbeth (Beaumont), Testament of Mary (Walter Kerr), Golden Boy (Belasco), Clybourne Park (Walter Kerr/Tony Nom Best Set), Warhorse (National Theater/Lincoln Center, Tony Winner Best Set), Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino (Broadhurst/Delacorte, Tony Nom Best Set), Enron (Broadhurst), Seascape (Booth), OFF: Fun Home (Public), Old Friends (Signature), Winter’s Tale (Delacorte), Bridge Project (BAM), Bug (Obie Award, Barrow St.), Lincoln Center: Domesticated, Nikolai & the Others, 4000 Miles (Lucille Lortel Best Set), Blood & Gifts, Grand Manner, When the Rain Stops Falling (Lucille Lortel Best Set), The Glorious Ones, Dying City, Dessa Rose, Clean House, and In The Heights (37 Arts). |
| Gregory Meeh – Special Effects | Gregory Meeh designs special effects for theatre, opera, dance, events, television, film and print. Credits include Ka for Cirque Du Soleil, the Broadway productions: The Last Ship, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Addams Family, Spamalot, Nine, Into The Woods, Aida, Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center (Eddy Award), Ragtime, An Inspector Calls (Drama Desk Award), Damn Yankees, Angels in America, Tommy, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Lord of the Rings Toronto and London, and the television productions of Fool’s Fire for American Playhouse, Late Show, SNL, and One Life to Live. |
| Rob Greene & J. Jared Janas | Recent Broadway designs and consultations include Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Motown the Musical (Makeup Design), Peter and the Starcatcher, All About Me, and Next to Normal. Other productions include The Tempest (A.R.T.), Bad Jews (Roundabout), Passion (Classic Stage), and Les Miserables (Dallas). |
| Stephen Gabis – Dialect Coach | Broadway/Off Broadway; Hedwig And The Angry Inch, The Substance Of Fire, Outside Mullingar, The Winslow Boy, Once, The Book Of Mormon, Jersey Boys, A View From The Bridge, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Tribes, Doubt, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore. Select Film; Boardwalk Empire, Mildred Pierce, Salt, Bernard And Doris, Across The Universe. |
| Rick Sordelet – Fight Director | 61 Broadway productions as well as hundreds for Off-Broadway and regional theaters. Over a thousand episodes of daytime television as Stunt Coordinator as well as several major motion pictures. 15 years as an instructor at the Yale School of Drama. Co-founder, with his son Christian Kelly-Sordelet, of Sordelet INK, a new combat action/movement company. Award for Sustained Excellence from the Lortel Off-Broadway League, Jeff Award for Best Fight Direction for Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. |
| Howie Cherpakov – Casting | Broadway: Next Fall (Artios Nomination), The Seafarer, Coram Boy, Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun. National Tours: Dirty Dancing, Chicago, South Pacific. Off-Broadway/Regional credits include: Bright Star (Old Globe-Fall 2014), New York Stage and Film: Five Seasons, Marry Harry, Dangerous Beauty, Fault Lines (Artios Award), The Glorious Ones, Abraham Lincoln’s…Dance Party, This Isn’t Romance, The Opposite of Sex, This Is Our Youth. www.hccasting.com |
| Michael Keller– Music Supervisor | Current Broadway: If/Then, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Motown the Musical, Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon, Wicked, Mamma! Mia, The Lion King. Tours: The Book of Mormon, Wicked, The Lion King. Television: Smash (2011-13). Pamela, Alexis, Zachary & Christin make it all worthwhile. |
| Michael Waters – Original Soundscapes | Michael is a multi-award winning sound designer based in Sydney, Australia. Original world premiere sound designs include: Atomic; Priscilla – Queen Of The Desert; Dirty Dancing; Dusty – The Original Pop Diva; An Officer And A Gentleman; Breast Wishes; Doctor Zhivago; and The Boy From Oz. |
| Christine Catti – Production Stage Manager | Radio City Music Hall: Christmas Spectacular. Broadway: Judgment at Nuremberg, She Loves Me. Off-Broadway: Love and Information, Nothing to Hide, I Forgive You Ronald Reagan, The Revisionist, Bullet For Adolf, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, Tea at Five, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Naked Boys Singing |
| Kelly Ruth Cole – Stage Manager | Kelly is thrilled to be part of the Atomic Team. Favorite Credits include: How Deep is the Ocean? (NYMF); The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G (MaYi/Vampire Cowboys). Twilight: the Musical (DreamCatcher Entertainment/Ulmer Theatricals); The Sluts of Sutton Drive (EST); Cut (The Management); My Heart in a Suitcase (National Tour – Artspower). |
| Lisa Timmel – Dramaturgy | Currently Director of New Work at the Tony Award winning Huntington Theatre Company, she has worked with Signature Theatre, The Public Theater, Punchdrunk, Playwrights Horizons, Sundance Theatre Lab, and Clubbed Thumb among many others. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia University. |
| Diane Alianiello – Company Manager | Diane Alianiello has been the Associate General Manager for CESA Entertainment since 2010. Production highlights include Bullet for Adolf (written & directed by Woody Harrelson); La Barbería; Between Worlds; How Deep Is the Ocean?; Escape from Bellevue; and many more. Past production companies include Stuart Thompson Productions, Richard Frankel Productions, Running Subway Productions, World Science Festival and WestBeth Entertainment. Managing Director, terraNOVA Collective 2009–2012, Women’s Project Producer’s Lab 2008–2010. Diane holds a B.A. in Theatre from Florida State University and an M.F.A. in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College. |
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