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January 21, 2006

Ford's Theatre - Free Reading _ "My Antonia" - Monday, Jan. 30, 7:00 p.m.

From: Ford's Theatre - Jan 21, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 20, 2006
Contact: Joyce M. Patterson
onstage@fordstheatre.org
www.fordstheatre.org
202-638-0896

FORD’S THEATRE
presents
2005-2006 AT&T Services Reading Series
MY ANTONIA
by
WILLA CATHER
adaptation by
SCOTT SCHWARTZ
music by
Tony Nominee STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
MONDAY, JANUARY 30 – 7:00 P.M.

WASHINGTON, DC—Ford’s Theatre will present a reading of the Scott Schwartz adaptation of Willa Cather’s My Antonia (Monday, January 30, 7:00 p.m.), with his legendary father, Tony nominee Stephen Schwartz, accompanying on piano. Scott’s mother, Carole Prandis, completes the family circle as she reads the role of the Grandmother in her son’s play with music. David Muse, associate director, Shakespeare Theatre Company, directs.

Scott Schwartz is a nationally recognized director whose New York credits include Golda’s Balcony and Bat Boy: The Musical. Stephen Schwartz, who received numerous Tony nominations for works such as Wicked, Pippin and Godspell, wrote the incidental music for My Antonia.

Cather’s classic chronicles Bohemian immigrants and others on the Nebraska prairie in the 1880s and focuses on harsh realities and missed opportunities and romance as seen through the lives of Jim Burden, a young American boy, and Antonia (An-toe-NEE’-ah), a young girl from Bohemia.

Ford’s 2005-2006 AT&T Services Reading Series is made possible by a generous grant from AT&T Services.  The reading at Ford’s is free and open to the public. To reserve seats, please call (202) 347-6262. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., Monday, January 30.

Ford’s Theatre Society is a not-for-profit corporation created to produce live entertainment on Ford’s historic stage. Paul R. Tetreault is Producing Director. It is the mission of the Ford’s Theatre Society to honor President Lincoln and his love for the theatre by producing plays and musicals that celebrate and explore the American experience as revealed by America’s greatest theatre artists.

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