DARLING SELECTED FOR PREMIERE READING BY PACE NEW MUSICALS PROGRAM

Pace University in New York City has selected the brand new, RSO-scored Darling to receive a fully produced reading in January 2009.

Darling features a book by award-winning playwright B. T. Ryback (winner of the 2007 Tennessee Williams One-Act Festival) and music and lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver. The musical follows upper crust teenager Ursula Morgan in 1929 Boston as society boils in the weeks before the Crash. Neglected by her excessive, self-absorbed parents, Ursula encounters Peter, a charming rent-boy of uncertain age, on the run from the Captain of Police who pursues him for a crime he may or may not have committed. When Ursula is offered the chance to run away with Peter she takes it, and finds herself swept into a seedy underground of booze, boys, and jazz—and in love.

Performances will take place at the Pace University Schaeberle Theater on the 10th Floor of 41 Park Row in late January with dates to be announced. The reading will be directed by Amy Rogers, music directed by Robert Meffe, and will feature student performers. The Pace reading will be the world premiere presentation of the musical.

Casting and more information to come.