New Musical! Wildwood by Michael Kimmel & Elliah Heifetz
November 7, 2018
A Night At The Avalon is a concert featuring music from the new musical, Wildwood, created and written by Michael Kimmel (Songbird, The Last Goodbye) with music and lyrics by Elliah Heifetz (Dust Can’t Kill Me). The night will feature some of Broadway’s biggest stars performing selections of the score, best described as “If Bill Haley and Billy Idol had a musical baby.”
In the 1950’s, Wildwood NJ was known as “The Las Vegas of the East.” For three months a year, this small south Jersey town turned into the biggest party of the summer. Everything converged in Wildwood- The Rat Pack, doo wop, soul, and the beginnings of rock and roll.
Inspired by Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth, beach party movies, and Amy Winehouse, Wildwood is about the excitement and corruption of hope and promise in the 1950’s, and how we try to move forward after the neon goes out.
Featuring:
Renee Albulario (Here Lies Love)
Jane Bruce (Jagged Little Pill)
Melissa Rose Hirsch (The Mad Ones)
Kelly Karbacz (“Orange Is The New Black,” Songbird)
Andrew Kober (Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night)
Deon’te Goodman (Songbird)
Ines Nassara (Ford’s Theatre)
Graham Rowat (Sunset Boulevard, The Boys in the Band)
Max Sangerman (Smokey Joe’s Cafe)
Heath Saunders (Great Comet)
Kacie Sheik (Hair, Songbird)
Amy Spanger (Rock of Ages, Wedding Singer, Elf)
Zachary Francis Stewart (The Bad Years)
Sydney Torin Shepherd (First Date)
Jeremy Woodard (School of Rock)
Remy Zaken (Spring Awakening)
Director: Srđa Vasiljević
Music Director: Andy Roninson
Produced by: Sara DeViney
