Pace New Musicals

The Pace New Musicals program was developed in 2007 to nurture the creation of new musical theater in New York City, while at the same time providing an invaluable educational opportunity for students to work directly with top professionals in the field. The program allows students to experiment with new, untested works without precedent-setting productions, a rare opportunity in theater education.

Pace New Musicals is proud to announce the selection for 2012, the new musical A Lasting Impression written by Zoe Sarnak. This piece will be given a full staged reading in the Schaeberle Studio Theater in lower Manhattan with students chosen from the student body.

DATES:	January 18-22, 2012
TIME:	Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sat at 2pm and Sun at 1pm and 7pm
LOCATION:	Schaeberle Theater at Pace University, 41 Park Row, 10th Floor (across from City Hall Park), New York, NY 10038

A Lasting Impression is a new musical that combines music, theater, and visual art. The story, three versions of the same narrative, is told by its three leads, Josh and sisters Kali and Simone Blanche, each through his or her own artistic medium. Josh, a once guarded journalist, acts as its narrator, using old taped interviews and pictures to guide us through his memory of the two sisters. Kali, a manic musician, is the piece’s composer, moving in and out of ‘her’ band as the story unfolds. Simone, a young painter, controls the evolution of what begins as a blank set, and comes to life through the addition of her visual art. A Lasting Impression is about impressions that we make through love, on those close to us, and through art, on those we may never meet.

Directed by the head of the Musical Theater program, Amy Rogers, with music direction by Robert Meffe, the program’s resident musical director, the workshop will feature Pace’s Performing Arts students and a live band.

The BFA Musical Theater Program at Pace University began with six majors in 2002, and has grown to more than 90 majors. In 2006, Pace became only the second school in New York City to offer a BFA in Musical Theater.

Past works in the Pace New Musicals Program include a staged workshops of Factory Girls by Creighton Irons, Sean Mahoney, and Maggie-Kate Coleman, Darling, by Ryan Scott Oliver and B.T. Ryback, Luck!, by Mark Waldrop and Brad Ross, and College: The Musical, which was later selected for a production with the New York Musical Theatre Festival where the authors, Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola, won the NYMF award for Excellence In Writing (Lyrics).

For more information or reservations call (212) 346-1352 or email performingarts@pace.edu.