Tink! A New Musical opens at the New York Musical Festival in NYC!

Check out a great interview about the piece HERE.

Book by Anthony Marino
Music by Lena Gabrielle
Lyrics by Greg Kerestan and Lena Gabrielle
Music Direction by Josh Walker
Fight Direction by Rod Kinter
Co-Choreography by Danielle Marie Fusco
Direction and Co-Choreography by Rachel Klein

More Than All the World at The York Theatre Company

James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director of York Theater Company has announced that as part of its Developmental Reading Series, it will present Erik Ransom's "More Than All the World" directed by Rachel Klein (‘Around the World in 80 Days’, ‘The Anthem’) with music direction and arrangements by Andy Peterson (‘Atomic’). 

Tuesday, March 15th at 2pm

The York Theatre Company

Theatre at Saint Peter's

54th Street just East of Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

The cast features: 

Kate Loprest (B’way: ‘First Date’, ‘Hairspray’) as Queen Isabella

Sean MacLaughlin (B’way: ‘Phantom’, ‘Lestat’) as Sir Piers Gaveston

Paul Iacono (TV: ‘Hard Times of RJ Berger’, Film: ‘Fame’) as Edward III 

Mel Johnson Jr. (B’way: ‘Lion King’, Film: ‘Total Recall’) as Edward I 

Marrick Smith (B’way: ‘Fun Home’, NY: ‘Pretty Filthy’) as Robin/Hugh le Despenser

PJ Griffith (B’way: ’American Idiot’, NY: [Public Theatre]: ‘Giant’) as Roger Mortimer

Rachel Izen (B’way: ‘Les Miz’, West End: ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie” ) as the Countess of Sandwich

Ted Keegan (B’way: ‘Phantom’, ‘Sweeney Todd’.) as the Earl of Lancaster

Erik Ransom (NY: ‘Grindr the Opera’, ‘My Big Gay Italian Wedding’ ) as Marlowe/Edward II

Luis Villabon (NY: Reefer Madness, Naked Boys Singing) as the Archbishop of Canterbury

Marissa Rosen (NY: ‘Bedbugs’, ‘My Big Gay Italian Wedding/Funeral’) as Lady Cataline

Terrance Johnson (Nat’l Tour: ‘Dreamgirls’ Film: ‘Happy Yummy Chicken’) as Prince Edmund

Kate Hoover (NY: 'The Imbible', 'Cranky Cabaret') rounds out the ensemble. 

Casting by Michael Cassara Casting/Jamie C. Anderson. 

Publicity by DDPR/Dan Demello.

For more info about our piece, see us on Broadway World!

Save the Date!

Erik Ransom's 

More Than All the World 

will have a world premier staged reading presented by  The York Theatre Company

on Tuesday, March 15th, at 2:00pm

Musical Direction and Arrangements by Andy Peterson

Direction by Rachel Klein

More information coming soon!

Find out how you can contribute HERE. 

Coming to Off-Broadway in the 2016/2017 Season.....

GRINDR The Opera, written by Erik J. Ransom, puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. With musical styles ranging from baroque to contemporary pop, GRINDR The Opera is a daring, humorous look at the changing landscape of gay relationships, and the greatest catalyst for the shift: GRINDR.

We meet GRINDR, a mythical siren from remote antiquity who has been awoken from her millennial slumber by technology. Her power, which is derived from human lust, is exhibited as she manipulates her gay devotees in a soaring soprano.

Next we meet the boys: Devon is a romantic, Tom is a cynic, Jack is a twink and Don is a daddy. These four gay men of different "Tribes" meet via the medium of the Grindr app, each seeking a different type of connection. GRINDR guides them to intersect to hilarious and calamitous results, culminating in a grand finale wherein all the dirty laundry tumbles out.

Though the opera lives in the world of parody, it touches on some very serious, hot-button issues that exist in the gay community as it transitions into a time of wider acceptance and easy access to opportunities of both romance and lust to be sated. GRINDR The Opera is entirely sung-through and intended to be staged with a cast of five actors: The four men and the Siren, GRINDR, who is intended to be a masked man in drag. It is arranged to be performed by a band of three to five musicians.

Glamour Macabre at Urban Stages!

The Rachel Klein Theater Ensemble Presents:
Glamour Macabre
A go-go dancing, rock n'roll, Broadway belting, sequin tossin' evening of entertainment!
Co-Hosted by Eric Schmalenberger and Miriam! (That's right!)

Saturday, December 14th

At Urban Stages, 259 West 30th St

10:00pm

Featuring:
The Whimsical Horror Stylings of The Rachel Klein Theater Ensemble in "Killer Workout!" "Beyond the Valley of the Pussycats" and "The Egyptian Queen"
Modern Dance Macabre Soloist, Danielle Marie Fusco (Martha Graham)
Sexy Contemporary Ballet by The Love Show (the Nutcracker Rated R)
The Vivacious Vocals of:
Erik Ransom as Damian from his rock musical "Coming"

The Love Show's David F. Slone, Esq
Broadway's Leasen Almquist (Annie Get Your Gun)
RKP's own Red Headed Spitfire, Scooter Pie (Shaken and Stirred)
and Broadway's Ashley Kate Adams debuting "Run", an original song by Miss Adams featuring Glendon Emmons
Musical Talents by:
Sean Hagerty on the electric violin
and the Gothic Romantic stylings of Cornelius Loy on the theremin!

Tickets are $15!
http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=WIN25

The Dead Dream Machine

Now Playing Off-Broadway!

 Cedric Yau and the Yow! Theater Company Present

Around the World in 80 Days 

 A Play by Mark Brown, based on the Novel by Jules Verne

Directed and Designed by Rachel Klein

A fantastic update of the visionary classic

39 characters deftly portrayed by 5 physically unparalleled actors

 

  Performing now the New Theater at 45th Street

354 West 45th Street

www.aroundtheworldinnyc.com

"Director Rachel Klein’s endlessly clever production is being performed at the New Theater at 45th Street... From the wonderfully silly costumes to the ingenious low-tech scenic design, this “Around the World in 80 Days” is a trip well worth taking."

 --The New York Post

"Rachel Klein's thoroughly inventive production of Mark Brown's five-actor play based on Jules Verne's globetrotting adventure, does quite a lot to measure up to its cinematic predecessor."

--Theater Mania

"Mark Brown’s play has been reimagined by Director/Designer Rachel Klein with a cohesive, iconoclastic point of view that speaks of a new generation’s Julie Taymor."

--Woman Around Town