Lost in Hollywoodland
Production and Developmental History
"Lost in Hollywoodland" had its world
premiere at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo New York where it closed the 2006/2007 season.
Winner of the 2006/2007 California Musical Theater Award sponsored by the Beverly
Hills Theater Guild and the 2005 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition, "Lost
in Hollywoodland" was also a finalist for the 2006 Stanley Dramatist Award
and the 2006 Global Search for New Musicals in Cardiff, Wales where it
was selected out of 241 applicants from 28 countries.
On October 11, 2005 a
full staged reading of Hollywoodland was performed on an actual Hollywood
sound stage in Occidental Studios.
The musical is also a winner of Theatre
Building Chicago's national competition, STAGES where it was
read as part of their 2005 Festival of New Musicals.
In the spring of 2005,
"Lost in Hollywoodland" was selected to participle in the York Theatre
Company's Developmental Reading Series where it was performed featuring
the Tony Award Nominee John Tartaglia of "Avenue Q" as Dexter Webster.
"Lost
in Hollywoodland" has been work-shopped at the Academy for New Musical
Theatre in Los Angeles and a staged reading at the Fountain Theatre in
Hollywood, CA was directed by Dan Oliverio in May 2004 where it received a standing ovation. |