MOLLY POPE BRINGS BACK MADCAP CABARET SHOW
Molly Pope, notorious Diva-in-Waiting, will wait no more as she takes
the stage once again at DON'T TELL MAMA (343 West 46th Street, NYC
- 1-212-757-0788 -
http://www.donttellmamanyc.com/
) on Fridays October 26th & November 2nd at 9:15 pm to stake her claim
as a classic throwback star somehow caught in this day and age. "The
Diva-lution of Molly Pope" is an evening in the life of a hybrid gay-man-black-woman-eighty-year-old-grande-dame,
born both too soon and too late for her prime. Under the direction
of Matt Sigl and accompanied by Ray Fellman, she hilariously proves
her status as a quintessential diva.
Taking cues from Sarah Vaughan, Judy Garland, Ella
Fitzgerald, and Barbra Streisand, Ms. Pope commandeers the stage
to create her own one-of-a-kind moment of glorified camp.
Ms. Pope began her career as a Diva-in-Waiting at
New York University where she studied at the Stella Adler Studio,
Experimental Theatre Wing, and Viewpoints Studio. Her stage roles
include the Young Woman in Machinal, Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? (also directed by Matt Sigl), Portia in The Merchant of Venice,
Desiree in A Little Night Music, and Maria in Twelfth Night: The
Drinking Game. She appeared as a guest star in the MAC award-winning
cabaret show Matt Sigl: Unstuck in Time and has been a performer
and judge for Overnight Sensation. She is a member of The Dreamscape
Theatre Company. Most recently, she appeared in the regional premiere
of Almost, Maine at the Cortland Repertory Theatre and she just
finished playing Claire in Beautiful Bodies with the Native Aliens
Theatre Collective
Director Matt Sigl won a 2006 MAC Award for his show
"Unstuck in Time," which was performed at both DON'T TELL MAMA and
ARS NOVA. He has acted professionally with the Shakespeare Theatre
of New Jersey, appeared in Genius/Famous at the 2005 New York Fringe,
and toured with TheatreworksUSA. He is a graduate of NYU where he
trained at the Stella Adler Conservatory and RADA in London. He
has directed a self-produced production of The Fantasticks and last
directed Molly Pope in Edward Albee's Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
and he has the therapy bills to prove it.
Music Director Ray Fellman was the musical director
for Stephen Schwartz's Off-Broadway production and national tour
of Captain Louie (Little Schubert Theater). Also active as a cabaret
artist, Ray was the musical director/arranger for the 2007 MAC Awards
at B.B. Kings and received a 2007 Backstage Bistro Award for his
musical direction of The After Party, an ongoing show hosted by
Brandon Cutrell, featuring Broadway's finest every Friday night
at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
Tickets are $12, plus a 2-drink minimum.
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