Santa Monica, California - The Magic Book: A cool, mysterious musical revue about a book and its wonderful secrets! Using original songs from the Santa Monica Playhouse repertoire of plays, The Magic Book explores the challenges and triumphs of its young teenage characters. Through music, dancing, and dialogue, the characters find their own voices and learn the importance of being true to themselves. The story is fun, upbeat and will even surprise the audience with an alien or two!!
Asher Bank wrote and produced this show, with help from his fellow young actors, as part of his Bar Mitzvah Tikkun Olam (or "repairing and restoring the world") project. It is designed to help bring the wonderful experience of theater to kids who would otherwise never see a live theater performance.
One free show will be performed for pre-teen and teen kids from the Vista Del Mar Residential Treatment Program and other area organizations serving children in need.
A second show, open to the public, will be a benefit performance for the Santa Monica Playhouse Diversity-
in-Education Fund. This Fund provides scholarships for individual underserved kids to enroll in theater workshops at the Playhouse and underwrites field trips and in-the-school theater workshops for students from socio-economically disadvantaged schools.
Featuring: Asher Bank Dylan Adler
Mira Baum David (DJ) Burrus
Preston Espar Nico Machamer
Gretel Payne Alex Treisman
Lindsay Yocum
Words & music by Evelyn Rudie with Matthew Wrather
Book and direction by Asher Bank
Co-directed by Mira Baum
The Magic Book will reveal itself on Saturday, February 9th at 5:00 PM. FOR ONE PUBLIC SHOW ONLY!!!!
Tickets are $5.00 for Everyone! All proceeds go to the Santa Monica Playhouse Diversity-in-Education Fund
The performance will take place at Santa Monica Playhouse, The Main Stage, 1211 Fourth Street (between Wilshire & Arizona) in downtown Santa Monica, CA, 90401.
For reservations call the Santa Monica Playhouse Box Office 1-310-394-9779 ext. 2 or visit us online at http://SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com.
LINK to an interview with Asher Bank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBD8ZYW1bXA
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