Venue: George Street Playhouse
9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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Bobby GoldmanBobby Goldman
Book & Additional Lyrics
Since my slutdom is on stage I'm not really sure I have anything else to add.
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Music & Lyrics
Drew BrodyDrew Brody
Music & Lyrics
Drew Brody (Music and Lyrics) is a New York City-based songwriter who brings his experience in the rock, pop, and folk music world to his musical theater sensibility. His songs have been sung by Broadway stars including Alan Cumming, Beth Malone, Robert Cuccioli, Sally Mayes, Lilli Cooper, Justin Sargent, Adrienne Warren, and many more. Brody wrote music for the comedy Oh, Hello, starring Nick Kroll and John Mulaney and directed by Alex Timbers; music and lyrics for Cutman, produced by Goodspeed Theaters in the spring of 2011; Derma, which ran at the Piccolo Spoleto festival in 2013; Wilshire, book by Bobby Goldman; Mudge Boy, an adaptation of the Showtime movie, adapted by Brett Smock; and two other new musicals currently in development. Brody wrote and recorded two albums with Richard Rodgers award-winning composer Derek Gregor as the rock band M-LAB, with which Brody performed as lead singer and toured during the 2000s. Brody also released two solo albums on Baskethouse Records and co-produced two albums for songwriter Jay Brannan. Recently, Brody composed the score for the acclaimed film, Stephen Winter’s Jason and Shirley, and released an EP, A Little Single, in collaboration with fellow singer-songwriter Lance Horne.
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Director
Peter FlynnPeter Flynn
Director
Peter Flynn (Director) is delighted to be returning to the George Street Playhouse where he directed the premiere of Curvy Widow by Bobby Goldman & Drew Brody. He was most recently the Founding Artistic Director of Plays In The House, raising money for the Actors’ Fund during the pandemic. New York credits include the off-Broadway premiere of Smart Blonde by Willy Holtzman starring Andréa Burns; Curvy Widow at the Westside Theatre; Chess with Josh Groban & Julia Murney; Funny Girl with Whoopi Goldberg, Jane Krakowski, & Sutton Foster; Our Town with B.D. Wong, and S. Epatha Merkerson; On the 20th Century with Douglas Sills & Marin Mazzie; Skippyjon Jones, and Junie B. Jones (two Lucille Lortel Award nominations); & Rhapsody in Seth starring Seth Rudetsky. Other credits include Sweeney Todd for Connecticut Repertory; Ragtime for Ford’s Theatre (Helen Hayes Award nominee); Born Yesterday for the Maltz-Jupiter Theatre; Andrea Martin’s one woman show, Andrea Martin: Final Days Everything Must Go; Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop; Gypsy for the St. Louis MUNY; 1776 & Into the Woods for Ford’s Theatre; & Man of La Mancha for the Maltz-Jupiter Theatre (Carbonell Award, Best Direction). Peter is an Associate Professor of Musical Theatre at Montclair State University; and a graduate of Northwestern University.
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Cast
Andrea Bianchi
Andrea Bianchi
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Andrea Bianchi (Caroline & others) is so pleased to be making her GSP debut in Curvy Widow having recently returned from its run at North Carolina Stage. New York: Being Audrey (Transport Group), Italian-American Reconciliation (Manhattan Theatre Club), Lusting After Pipino’s Wife ( Primary Stages) and Cocoanuts (American Place Theatre). Regional: Guthrie Theatre (Babes in Arms), Berkshire Theatre Festival (High Spirits), Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (Bubbly Black Girl), as well as productions at Barter Theatre, Riverside Theater, Syracuse Stage, Maltz Jupiter, Premiere Stages, Stamford Center for the Arts, etc. TV: Several appearances on Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU, Here & Now (NBC), and shows for TruTV, Disney, Nickelodeon and As The World Turns (recurring). Thanks to this amazing team, particularly Peter, Bobby and Drew for bringing me on board. Thank you Renee and Joe.
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Aisha de Haas
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Aisha de Haas (Joan and others) has most recently been seen as Medda Larkin in the first National Tour of Disney’s Newsies and is featured in the “live-capture” movie (2017). Broadway: Caroline Or Change; Rent; Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk and off-Broadway in Nora Ephron’s Love, Loss And What I Wore and Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show. TV and film appearances include Shades Of Blue, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch, Ed, The Today Show, Across The Universe, Rent (the Film), The Secret Lives Of Dentists, Marci X. She’s toured the United States and Europe in Dreamgirls, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Little Shop Of Horrors and as a backing vocalist for Patti Austin and Oleta Adams. Other appearances include her own jazz/cabaret show performed at Birdland Jazz Club, Town Hall (New York and Chicago), The Green Mill and jazz clubs and festivals around the country.
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Elizabeth Ward Land
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Elizabeth Ward Land (Heidi & others) Broadway: original cast of Amazing Grace, Scandalous and The Scarlet Pimpernel (all three versions); Memphis, Passion, City of Angels. Tours: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Les Miserables, Prisoner of Second Avenue, Singin’ in the Rain. Off-Broadway: Southern Comfort, The Green Heart, Hello Again and Chess. Regional: The Old Globe, Goodspeed, TheatreWorks, Alliance, Sacramento Music Circus, Pasadena Playhouse, Asolo Rep, Musical Theatre West, Barrington Stage. Film/TV: Young Adult, Boy Meets Girl, Bride Tribe, Elementary, The Blacklist, Madam Secretary, Law & Order: SVU, Boardwalk Empire, The Amanda Show. Debut CD, First Harvest, available on iTunes.
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Ken Land
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Ken Land (Jim & others) Broadway: Promises, Promises; The Scarlet Pimpernel (all three versions), Victor/ Victoria and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Off-Broadway: The Gig, Little Shop of Horrors and The Death of Von Richthofen as Witnessed from Earth. National Tours: Legally Blonde, Sweet Charity (directed by Bob Fosse), The Secret Garden, Evita (directed by Harold Prince). Regional Theatre: The Old Globe, Goodspeed, Portland Center Stage, Matrix Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, The MUNY, Merrimack Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Passage Theatre. TV: The Good Wife, Boston Legal, Six Feet Under, Law & Order(s), Malcolm in the MIddle, Strong Medicine, Back to Me and You, Judging Amy, The District, Crossing Jordan and Star Trek: Voyager.
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Alan Muraoka
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Alan Muraoka (The Shrink & others) Broadway: Aladdin, Pacific Overtures, The King and I, Miss Saigon, My Favorite Year, Shogun and Mail. Tours and Regional: M. Butterfly, Anything Goes, Kennedy Center, Cincinnati Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, North Shore, Olney Theatre, MUNY, Human Race Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, & Lyric Theatre OKC. Television: Sesame Street (18 seasons), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Louie, 30 Rock, Brotherhood, Late Night with David Letterman. Film: It Could Happen To You. Concerts: Hollywood Bowl (w/Pink Martini), Carnegie Hall (Celebration of Jim Henson), Sesame Street w/ The Boston Pops. Graduate of UCLA. Thank you Peter, Bobby and the Curvy Family. For Herb.
Instagram: @alanathoopers
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Nancy Opel
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Nancy Opel (Bobby) Broadway: Beautiful, Honeymoon in Vegas, Memphis, Gypsy, Fiddler on the Roof, Urinetown (Tony Award nomination), Triumph of Love, Anything Goes, Sunday in the Park with George , Evita and others. Recent: Curvy Widow, Prince of Broadway (Japan), Follies (St. Louis Rep). Off-Broadway: Toxic Avenger, My Deah, Polish Joke at MTC; Mere Mortals, All in the Timing and others. National Tour: The Drowsy Chaperone. TV: The Big C and various Law & Order(s). www.nancyopel.com
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Chris Shyer
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Christopher Shyer (Per Se & others) is a Canadian-born actor and dual citizen making his GSP debut. Broadway: Mamma Mia (Winter Garden Theatre). His off- Broadway/regional credits include Going Down Swingin’ (NYMF), Lend Me a Tenor (Hangar Theatre), The Good Life (NoHo Arts Center). He’s also appeared in the national tours of The Book of Mormon and Les Miserables. Selected Canadian Theatre: Night of the Iguana (Playwright’s Theatre Centre), El Salvador (The Cultch), Sunset Boulevard (The Ford Centre for the Performing Arts). Film and television credits include The Hermit (soon to be released), J.Edgar, Fierce People, Awkward (Short), Those Damn Canadians (award-winning web series), Good God, The Good Wife, ABC’s V and Lights Out and Tin Star for Sky Atlantic/British TV.
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See Curvy Widow in NYC!
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Nancy Opel returns to GSP after her hilarious, show-stealing performance as Ma/The Mayor in The Toxic Avenger to star in this sassy, frank and witty musical comedy that follows the daily exploits of a feisty fifty-something widow. Her adventures inspire laughter and -- in the least expected places -- reveal unexpected truths about life, love, survival and sex.
Curvy Widow star Nancy Opel and writer Bobby Goldman talk to WBGO's Michael Bourne:
Listen to WCTC's Bert Baron interview Curvy Widow star Nancy Opel and writer Bobby Goldman:
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