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    © 2016 by Robert Cucuzza

    Be Emphatic!

    May 16 – 25, 1996


    Part of the Seven Minute Series

    Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church, New York City

     

    Produced by Hangdog Theater

     

    Directed by Robert Cucuzza 

     

    With

    Rebecca Finnegan

    Sally Eberhardt

    Herman Eberhardt

    David Cote
    Alicia Cheng
    Robert Cucuzza

    Jennifer Woodward

    Mike Rubens

    Johanna S. Meyer

    Christopher Batonhorst

    Gary Brownlee

    Susie Sokol

    James Urbaniak

    Alicia McMillen

    Joy Garnett

    Richard Maxwell

    David Neumann

     

    Dance Captain: Johanna S. Meyer

    Costume Designer: Jennifer Krasinski

    Assistant to Mr. Callahan: Herman Eberhardt

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    Projecting a voice as strong as molten steel, Rebecca Finnegan brings down the house with an old-fashioned show-stopping Broadway number. But wait a minute, who are those people running out on stage? A caveman? A hula dancer? A waiter? A belly dancer? A creepy faceless girl lurking in the background? 

     

    In a daring turn bordering on insanity, Hangdog Theater presents a show-stopping musical number from the Broadway flop, "I Had A Ball," as it was performed on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1963, three days before the show closed. Recreating the number as best it can (complete with celebrity host Buddy Hackett), this rogue band of performers joyously celebrates voices hitting and missing, dance steps landing in the right and the wrong places, and altogether failing to hit the mark in the same mammoth energetic proportions of the Broadway show's original cast.

    BE! 1
    BE! 8
    BE! 9
    BE!
    BE! 6
    BE! 7
    BE! 5
    BE! 2
    BE! 4
    BE! 3

      ROBERT
      CUCUZZA