Meet Kyle Fowler

Kyle Fowler plays the role of Frank in TNC's Living in a Musical.

Kyle is excited to call this is NYC debut! Most recently, Kyle was in Utah performing at Tuacahn Center for the Arts. He was also seen on the national tour of I Love A Piano as George. Past credits include Snoopy! (Charlie Brown), Seven Brides (Frankincense), A Chorus Line (Al), & The Secret Garden (Dickon). Other favorites include RENT, Myths & Hymns, A Little Night Music, Oklahoma!, Sugar, Sweet Charity, Lucky Stiff, & The Nightmare Before Christmas. Kyle has traveled the world with Holland America as a lead production singer and can be heard as a featured singer on the original recording of the musical Make Me A Cowboy. Kyle proudly holds his BFA from Millikin University. Thanks and love to all my family, friends, fellow cast & crew members, Arthur, and Mark. W2T.

Meet David Slone

David F. Slone.

David is pleased, as always, to return to TNC, where he's produced and performed in four seasons on Nutcracker: Rated R with the fabulous Love Show, as well as having performed in David “Zen” Mansley's A Christmas Carol, Evan Laurence's My Inner Mark Berman and Suck Sale, two runs of Jack Bump's Sportf*ckers and numerous festivals. He has also had the honor of having attended his surprise 40th birthday show, produced by Angela Harriell, at TNC. He's excited to finally be directed by Mark Marcante, with whom he's worked so often in the past. www.davidslone.com

David Slone plays the Director in Living in a Musical.
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Actor Spotlight: Meet Alexandra Grossi

Alexandra Grossi received her BA in Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University and trained at the British American Drama Academy in London, England. Recent Theatre Credits: Amateurs, The Importance of Being Earnest; Simple- New Orleans Fringe Festival; Romeo & Juliet; Twelfth Night
and Othello. Film Credits: Crumble, Intruder, Life Lessons, The Sheol Express, SubterraNYa and John Hook. Thank you Mark! Love being part of the Theatre For The New City family.

Alexandra Grossi plays Angel in TNC's Living in a Musical.

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Spotlight on the Director

Mark Marcante. Photo by Jonathan Slaff
Mark Marcante (director) is Executive Production Director of TNC and a prolific designer, actor and director there. This is his fifth production with Tom Attea and Arthur Abrams. His other TNC directing credits include "Okechobee Split," "British Music Hall," "Ruzzante Returns from the War," "Betty's Barbershop" and "Strangely Wonderful." He also co-directed "One Director Against His Cast" with author Crystal Field. Mr. Marcante hails from Pennsylvania and worked as technical supervisor and workshop instructor at the Allentown Arts Center. As an actor, he has led TNC's award-winning Annual Summer Street Theater ensemble since 1986 and played lead roles in several critically acclaimed productions at TNC.

Spotlight on the Composer

Arthur Abrams. Photo by Jonathan Slaff.

Arthur Abrams (composer) is a veteran Lower East Side composer, music director, arranger and pianist. His recent theatrical scores include "The Iron Heel" based on a novel by Jack London, with book and lyrics by Elizbeth Ruf-Maldonado; "Ludlow and Broome," with book and lyrics by Ruthy Rosen; and "The Further Adventures of Uncle Wiggily: the Windblown visitors," with book and Lyrics by Laurel Hessing, all presented by TNC. His other scores for TNC shows include"Abstinence" and "Lincoln Plaza" with book and lyrics by Tom Attea; "The Golden Bear" and "Sketching Utopia," both with book and lyrics by Laurel Hessing, directed by Crystal Field; "Master and Margarita" from a novel written by Bulgakov, adapted by Jean Claude van Itallie and directed by David Willinger; "The Open Gate," based on the novel, "The Manor" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, adapted and directed by David Willinger; and "The Glory that Was" and "Library Love" with book and lyrics by Walter Corwin.

Mr. Abrams has also composed scores for several musical revues, among them "Dropping In On The Earth," "A Little Old, A Little New," "It's An Emergency, Don't Hurry"and "Axis of Evil Vaudeville Revue." Abrams was composer, pianist,and music director for "The Golden Age of Second Avenue," a documentary film about the golden age of the Yiddish Theater produced by Arthur Cantor. The piece is often shown on PBS. (In the film, he accompanied Molly Picon.) He was music director and pianist for the recent Lambs Club presentation of "Yankel in America," starring Theo Bikel. His awards include a DAAD music fellowship to Mannheim, Germany, a scholarship to the Orff Institute at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and a "Meet the Composer" grant for the score of"The Golden Bear."

Spotlight on the Playwright

Tom Attea
Tom Attea (book and lyrics), when a member of the Playwrights Unit of the Actors Studio, had a ten-year apprenticeship in musical theater with Charles Friedman, the original director of the stage classics "Pins and Needles," "Sing out the News," the musical version of "Street Scene," "Carmen Jones" and other shows. At that time, Friedman had been collaborating with Oscar Hammerstein (who had died). Charles also found a young composer to work with named Arthur Abrams, who would become Attea's long-time musical collaborator.

The trio collaborated on the revue,"Brief Chronicles of the Time," which premiered at the Actors Studio in 1982. This is Attea's fifth musical with Arthur Abrams to be presented by TNC, which has also produced one of Attea's plays, "Life Knocks" ("Great humor and ebullience ... good, genuine laughs ... Attea's talent as a playwright is evident." -Kessa De Santis, PunchIn International, now with electroniclink.com). Attea has received a TNC/Jerome Foundation emerging playwright grant and is an active member of The Dramatists Guild. He wrote a feature film that was produced by Showtime and created a sit-com that was optioned by CBS, but he has opted to devote himself primarily to the theater. He holds a doctorate in the healthcare field but has always made his living writing copy for pharmaceutical and consumer advertising and now writes websites, too. He lives in New York and Connecticut.

Production Stills

Alexandra Grossi and Sal Mannino, as the rocker girl and her abusive boyfriend, rocking on in a music club scene. Photo by Zita Bradley.