November And December Events At Roosevelt Island Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance - Alice Childress Reading, {title of show} Musical & Christmas Dreams

Roosevelt Island's Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance (MST&DA)

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Executive Director Kristi Towey reports on upcoming events for November & December. According to Ms. Towey

November 6th and 13th @ 7:15pm in the Howe Theatre at the Cultural Center, Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance, 548 Main Street - "Trouble in Mind" by Alice Childress, a staged script reading directed by Michael Rogers in collaboration with Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation.

Free event, ticket reservation recommended. Space is limited. Tickets can be reserved here.

November 10-12, and 17-19th - A musical theatre performance of [title of show].

 Here is the info for the show in an eventbrite link

December 16 & 17th - "Christmas Dreams" will play at MST&DA on Saturday & Sunday, December 16 and 17 at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. both days.

$20 adults; $15 students and seniors.

Directed by Roosevelt Islanders, John and Kara Curtis. He writes -

My wife Kara and I are choreographing again, and I wrote the script. The music is mostly our own original music that we wrote and recorded in the group.

This year's show follows the story of a group of performers putting on their annual Christmas show. As in all of our shows, it's a story about people.

The show is built around four dream ballet sequences, combining ballet, jazz, tap and contemporary dance. At the heart of the story is the dancers and their internal struggles to make Christmas special. One of the dancers in the story is a single mom trying to make it with her daughter who is also a dancer in the group. Another performer in the story lost a child in a tragic incident. She is trying to find faith at Christmastime when everyone is experiencing the joy of the season, but she is lost.

There is a section of the show that we dedicate to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT. We will be coming up on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy this year. When that happened, it had a profound impact on so many of us in the area here, including Kara and me. Can the performers overcome their own struggles in time to pull the show off? We will find out. "Christmas Dreams" is in the spirit of the classic MGM musicals, but also with a modern sense of gravitas. It will be a delight for fans of musical theater and dance, but even those who are not necessarily fans of this genre will likely see themselves onstage in the lives of the characters.

This year's cast is eight adults and 13 children. A number of our children are from Roosevelt Island, including some students from MST&DA. This is a great opportunity for our children to get to work alongside the adults.

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