Crew of the Carefree encounter an alien! (back from left) Ben (Brian Charles Rooney), Katrinka (Helen Bessette), Klecker (Joshua Polenberg), (middle from left) Gino (Tony Tallon), Mac (Shay Gines), Captain (Michael Hartney), Isaac (Casey Weaver), (front from left), Garry (Jimmy Maize), Mark Finley (director/adaptor) & Patch (Justin Tyler) (07)

 

Emerging Artists Theater

presents

TOSOS II
(Doric Wilson - Mark Finley - Barry Childs)
in association with Out Professionals

in a production of

 

 

adapted and directed by

Mark Finley

from the book by Richard M. Elam

 

Can orphan boys survive "the deeps of space?" A 1962 novel for boys is the basis and actual script of

this loving homage to the sci-fi drive-in movie genre

 

"Cornball homoerotic sci-fi spoof is a lightweight treat. . .lby an appealing cast." -Jonathan Warman, HX Magazine

 

"Stowaways showcases Finley's genius in a way that will surprise you. The stylized execution of this play is daringly entertaining. TOSOS II does it again!" - Jade Esteban Estrada, OOBR

"a delightful romp through outer space!...It's Christmas in February and Young Stowaways is a large enchanting toy! I love it." - John Wallowitch.

 

Cast

Garry Coleman

Jimmy Maize
Patch Foster

Justin Tyler
Captain Eaton

Michael Hartney
Ben Dawes

Brian Charles Rooney
Klecker

Joshua Polenberg
Gino

Tony Tallon

Officer Mulroy / Isaac

Casey Weaver
Mac

Shay Gines

Nurse / Katrinka / etc.

Helen Bessette

 

producers: Barry Childs, Chris Stempky & Doric Wilson

stage manager: Mark Barranco

costume design: Chris Weikel   robot costume by Tomoko Naka

sound design: Mark Finley   sound technicians: Lisa Kozlowski & Naomi Shvorin

lighting design: Mary Meade    set concept: Carter Inskeep & Ryan Hilliard

card design: Howard Cruse ( http://www.howardcruse.com/howardsite/whatsnew.html )

press representative: Scott Makin (scottcon77@hotmail.com)

 

for a three week run February 5 to 22, 2004

Thursdays & Sundays at 7 pm; Friday & Saturdays at 10:00 pm

at Intar Theater 508 West 53rd Street, NYC

 

Merchandise with YOUNG STOWAWAYS IN SPACE artwork by Howard Cruse is available from:

http://www.cafeshops.com/emerging/226010

 

cast bios

 

Helen Bessette (Nurse/Space Voice/Katrinka) Her recent adventures have been in the musical theatre world with William Wade and John Atkins' warsaw and William Wade and Frank Blocker's Alice. She got to participate in this year's NY Fringe Festival as Production Manager for Frank Blocker's Southern Gothic Novel. She appeared as Eula Mae in the New York Debut of Eula Mae's Beauty Bate and Tackle and has been seen in numerous NativeAliens Theatre Collective productions, most notably as Banquo in Macbeth, Katrinka in Young Stowaways In Space, and the Partridge in a Pear Tree for The Harvey Milk Holiday Pageant.

Shay Gines (Mac) This is Shay’s second production with TOSOS II. Last season, she appeared as Mindy in David Bell’s What the F**k?! (OOBR Award winner) and finalist in the Sam French Short Play competition. Shay has performed in theaters from L.A. to NYC. Other roles in which she has played a man include: Hercules in The Frogs, a Young Soldier in Macbeth, Grandpa and Punk Street Artist in Muse of Fire and Sweetheart in Class Enemy. Shay is a proud member of TOSOS II and Emerging Artists Theatre Company.
Michael Hartney (Captain) makes his NYC debut with this production. Regional theater credits: Pageant, Threepenny Opera, The Lover, Harmony, and Get Used to It. University credits: Cloud Nine, Assassins, The Bourgeois Gentleman, A Question of Mercy, Interview, Twelfth Night, Crimes of the Heart, and Starmites. He has been active in the NYC cabaret and improv scene, playing at Caroline's on Broadway, Stand-Up NY, Don't Tell Mama, The Duplex, Rose's Turn, Upright Citizens Brigade, and the American Comedy Institute.

Jimmy Maize (Garry) joins TOSOS II with Young Stowaways in Space. A native of the Pacific Northwest, he made his NYC debut in Belly Dream Real (One Arm Red.) A recent graduate of Whitman College in Walla Walla, he was seen in over 25 productions. Jimmy is also a playwright, and his award-winning docudrama, In One Room, received it's world premiere last year at the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre in Chicago, and will soon be included as part of TOSOS II's Chesley/Chambers Playwright Series.
Joshua Polenberg (Klecker) Recent credits include: Gay Movie: The Musical (SVA graduate film), Chock-Full-of-Nutz! (Danny’s Skylight Room), staged readings with The Shock Troupe and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Original Comedic Shorts with Agony Productions (Kraine Theater), The Sultan’s Wife (Sanford Meisner Theater). Favorite roles: Dan in Down the Road (Third Eye Repertory), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Hudson Shakespeare Company), and Charlie in Pop Music Mayhem (NYU film). Joshua is a graduate of the National Shakespeare Conservatory.

Brian Charles Rooney (Ben) was recently nominated for the 2003 Carbonell Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Homer Collins in Floyd Collins (Actors' Playhouse, Miami). Other credits include: Tony in West Side Story (Euro Tour); featured soloist in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber with British pop-star, Petula Clark (North American tour); title role in Bat Boy, the Musical!; title role in The Student Prince; Virgo in Doric Wilson’s The West Street Gang. He is an acting member of TOSOS II (www.briancharlesrooney.com)
Tony Tallon (Gino) is pleased to make his NYC debut with this production of Young Stowaways In Space. A New York native, he is a recent graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and a new member of the TOSOS II acting company.

Justin Tyler (Patch) began acting as an undergraduate at Hamilton College after which he spent a year on a Bristol Fellowship studying street theatre in nine countries, creating Happy Mundanes, a fifty-minute non-verbal theatre piece. He is also an accomplished improvisor with the Improv Foundry in Boston and Dead Llamma Improv in NYC. Justin just finished playing Clown in a staged reading of The Winter's Tale for the Metropolitan Shakespeare Project and will play Urban in Happy Mundanes this spring.
Casey Weaver (Mulroy/Isaac) was most recently scene in EAT's Fall Fest show Cosmic Goofs. Other credits include Rain River Ice Steam (Six Figures), Hallelujah Breakdown (EAT), From the Cheap Seats (EAT), Gareth and Lynette (EAT & TOSOS II), Blind Corner (EAT), The Misanthrope, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Glass Slipper), Smooth Operator (EAT), Svetlana's New Flame (EAT), Pimp Clause (NYC Fringe '99), Mac Wellman's Dracula (The Mark), and Trust (The Mark). She is a member of Six Figures, Emerging Artists and TOSOS II.