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Soon

Mar 10 – Apr 26, 2015
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It is the hottest summer in human history and, in a few short months, all water on earth will evaporate. In response, twenty-something Charlie has taken to her couch with only her beloved possessions: peanut butter, Wolf Blitzer and Herschel, the fish. Her mother, roommate and sometimes-boyfriend all attempt to persuade her to leave her apartment and enjoy life. However, as Charlie's memories take over, more complicated reasons for her self-inflicted hibernation emerge as she confronts her deferred dreams and considers the possibility of life and love just outside her door.

Filled with Blaemire's (Glory Days) trademark quirky style and reminiscent of past Signature contemporary musicals [title of show] and The Last Five Years, Soon's youthful humor, energy and wit deliver a searing and sardonic commentary on what to do with the time you have left.

Praise for Glory Days
"Fresh and vivacious... a beaming source of musical energy." -The Washington Post

Book, Music & Lyrics by Nick Blaemire
Directed by Matthew Gardiner

Performance Information

  • Effects Warnings

    This show uses theatrical haze and strobe lights.

  • Content Warnings

    This show contains mild use of adult language and themes.

Specialty Nights

Pride Night

March 27 & April 17

Discussion Night

Marcch 31, April 7 & 15

Sponsors

Cast Members

Alex Brightman

Jonah

BROADWAY: Matilda, Big Fish, Wicked, Glory Days. OFF-BROADWAY: The (M)orons Happy Hour, 35mm (world premiere). REGIONAL: How I Paid For College (world premiere), Nobody Loves You (world premiere), Next to Normal, The History Boys (regional premiere). TV: Royal Pains, Important Things w/ Demetri Martin. FILM: Plan B, Red Hook. @ABrightmonster

Natascia Diaz

Natascia Diaz

Adrienne

SIGNATURE: Passion (Fosca, Helen Hayes Award), Threepenny Opera (Jenny, Helen Hayes nom.), West Side Story (Anita, Helen Hayes nom.), Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Aurora).  BROADWAY: Man of La Mancha (Antonia, u/s Aldonza), Seussical. OFF-BROADWAY: Encores! Grand Hotel (Rafaella), The Capeman (Esmeralda), Jacques Brel, tick, tick, BOOM! (Susan, LA Ovation nom.). TOUR: West Side Story (Anita, Chicago Jeff Award, St. Louis Kevin Kline Award). DC: Shakespeare Theatre: Our Town (Mrs. Gibbs); Woolly: Collective Rage (Betty #3); MetroStage: Jacques Brel (Woman 1, Helen Hayes Award), Savage In Limbo (Savage), Rooms (Monica, Helen Hayes Award, shared with Chita!). REGIONAL: San Francisco Playhouse: Sally (Follies); St. Louis Muny: On Your Feet (Gloria Fajardo, St. Louis Critics Award), Chicago (Velma, Critics nom.); Hartford Stage: Ah, Wilderness! (Lily). FILM: Every Little Step. natasciadiaz.com 

Jessica Hershberg

Charlie

BROADWAY: Cinderella, Baby it's You! OFF-BROADWAY: Encores!: Pipe Dream; 59E59 Theaters; Love and Real Estate; Idaho!. REGIONAL: Palm Beach Drama Works: Most Happy Fella; National Tour: Little House on the Prairie; Denver Theatre Center: Sense and Sensibility; Goodspeed: James and the Giant Peach; Paper Mill Playhouse, MUNY, PCLO, Arden Theatre. EDUCATION: University of Michigan, RADA.

Joshua Morgan

Steven

DC AREA: Woolly Mammoth Theatre: A Bright New Boise; Arena Stage: Fiddler on the Roof; Olney Theatre Center: Awake and Sing!; Theater J: The Chosen, Our Class; Folger Theatre: Twelfth Night; Adventure Theatre-MTC: Winnie the Pooh; Rep Stage: The Piano Teacher. REGIONAL: Triad Stage: Tick, Tick… Boom!. EDUCATION: University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Artistic Director No Rules Theatre Company www.NoRulesTheatre.org.

Creative Team

Nick Blaemire

Book, Music & Lyrics

SIGNATURE: Glory Days (book by James Gardiner). OTHER COMPOSING: Broadway: Glory Days; Kansas City Rep: A Little More Alive; Fallout (Commission with Kyle Jarrow). PERFORMING: Broadway/Tour: Godspell, CryBaby, Altar Boyz. Off-Broadway: Atlantic: Found; 2ndstage: Dogfight; SPF @ The Public: The Black Suits. Regional: Williamstown: The Last Goodbye; Alliance: Bring it On; Vineyard Playhouse: James Lapine’s Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing; Long Wharf: Lil’s 90th. TV: The Good Wife, The Big C, Law and Order, Crossbones, Believe. FILM: Damsels in Distress, Gods Behaving Badly, Beach Pillows, Assassination of a High School President. BAND: The Hustle (EP on iTunes). EDUCATION: BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan.

Charlie Rosen

Orchestrations & Arrangements

BROADWAY: The Visit (Guit, Madolin, Zither), Honeymoon in Vegas (Orchestrations), Cyrano de Bergerac (Composer), One Man Two Guvnors (Music Director, Bass), 13 The Musical (Guitars, Bass, Keys), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Associate Conductor, Bass). OFF-BROADWAY/REGIONAL/OTHER: Two Rivers Playhouse: Be More Chill (Orchestrations); The Public Theater: Love’s Labours Lost (Bass); Center Theater Group: The Black Suits (Music Director/Orchestrator); Goodspeed: Unauthorized…Samantha Brown; NYSF: Bonfire Night; Charlie Rosen’s Broadway Big Band (Conductor/Arranger); August Wilson Theater: Chita: A Legendary Celebration (Arranger); Kennedy Center: Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog (Orchestrator/Track Production); Tokyo: 4 Stars: One World of Broadway Musicals (Orchestrations); Kimmel Center, PA: A Flash of Time (Track Production/Sequencing). AWARDS: ASMAC award winner, ASCAP, Local 802, Equity. EDUCATION: Berklee College of Music. www.charlierosen.com @CRosenMusic

Darius Smith

Music Director

SIGNATURE: Dreamgirls (Associate Music Director). OFF-BROADWAY: New Victory Theater: Three Little Birds. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: The Little Mermaid, Once on this Island; Studio Theatre: Choir Boy, Carrie: the Musical; Adventure Theater-MTC: Petit Rouge; American University: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. CABARETS: Signature Theatre: Songs in the Key of Chocolate (Composer/Lyricist); Various venues: Nova Y. Payton; Strathmore: Natascia Diaz; MetroStage: Ware’s the Disconnect? (featuring Ashley Ware Jenkins). ORIGINAL WORKS: Marcus Nate is Alive and Great in Detroit (workshop reading); Tea and Cakes (upcoming New York workshop); Adventure Theatre: The Snowy Day (book by David Toney, 2013 Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding TYA Production); Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage: U.G.L.Y., a new musical. UPCOMING: Olney Theatre Center: The Producers; Skylight Music Theater: Crowns. www.dariussmithmusic.com

Brian Tovar

Lighting Design

SELECTED NYC: Tamar of The River (Drama Desk nomination), City Of, The Underclassman, Sex Tips For Straight Women From a Gay Man, When We Met, Eager To Lose, The Lapsburgh Layover, Rapture, Sleeping Rough, Spidermusical, Accidentally Like a Martyr, Perez Hilton Saves The Universe, Rio, Les Enfants De Paris, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, Just Cause, Street Lights, Vote!, Factor Girls, Perez Hilton Saves The Universe, The Wendy Complex (MITF Outstanding Lighting Design Award), The Wendigo, among others. BROADWAY ASSISTANT: HAIR, Passing Strange, 39 Steps. REGIONAL: Goodspeed Musicals, Denver Center Theatre, Two River Theatre, Northern Stage. OTHER: Founder and Creative Director of NYC based event design company Ionic Design Group: NFL, ASPCA, Swiffer Jaguar, Nike, Bravo, Samsung, The Walking Dead, Microsoft, Porsche, Citibank, Nike, Monster, US Airways, Philips, SPANX, NYC Fashion Week, among others. Co-founder of NYC based film production company, NinjaSticks.

Matthew Haber

Projection Design

NEW YORK: Ice Floe, Witnessed by the World. REGIONAL: The Wizard of Oz, The Ashes Under Gait City, Our Lady, Tongue of a Bird, Krapp’s Last Tape, The Dumb Waiter, The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Pentecost, Shape of the Table. OPERA: Owen Wingrave, Florencia en el Amazonas. OTHER: The 2015 GQ Grammy Party, Victor & Rolph’s Flowerbomb for Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdales, Catapult Entertainment for America’s Got Talent. SYSTEM DESIGN/ASSOCIATE: Cincinnati Playhouse, TPAC, Huntington Theatre Company, CenterStage, Signature Theatre, Arena Stage, Mannes Opera, numerous Off-Broadway. Managing Director at Imaginary Media, a New York based immersive media design studio. Member United Scenic Artists.

Tricia Small

Producer

TV: Executive Producer/Writer: SALEM, WGN AMERICA. THEATER: Los Angeles Premiere: Glory Days, The Last Five Years, Slow Dance in Midtown, Bare, A Rock Musical. FILM: Executive Producer: Mother’s Day, The Last Treasure Hunt, The Gymnast, How to Ace an Intervention.

John Keith Hall

Stage Manager

DC AREA: Studio Theatre: Choir Boy, Bad Jews, Water By The Spoonful, Tribes, Torch Song Trilogy, 4000 Miles, The Aliens, Invisible Man, Sucker Punch, Venus In Fur, The Walworth Farce, Superior Donuts, Legends!, American Buffalo, In The Red And Brown Water, Adding Machine: A Musical, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Seafarer, Grey Gardens, The Road To Mecca, The History Boys, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. REGIONAL: Virginia Musical Theatre: Miss Saigon, White Christmas; Shadowland Theatre: The Good German, Lend Me A Tenor, The Drawer; Boy Barter Theatre: The Lion In Winter, Mother Courage and Her Children, Gigi, Gypsy, The Odd Couple, The Mousetrap, Steel Magnolias, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Tempest, The Memory of Water, To Kill A Mockingbird, Talley’s Folly, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Macbeth, Godspell, She Loves Me, Wit, My Fair Lady, Falsettos, A Turn Of The Screw, Brigadoon.

Ali's Bar Specials

Herschel's Survival Mix

a chex/nut/gold fish mix

Herschel's Fishbowl Punch

vodka, blue curacao, rum, pineapple and soda with Nerds, "aquarium rocks" and Swedish Fish

Herschel the Goldfish Pint Glass

Get your very own Soon pint glass with your next frothy beverage!

Press Reviews

A blend of sophistication and something that feels handmade, not remotely formulaic or mechanical.

The Washington Post

Wholly original, daring, and seeks to advance our understanding of what we know musical theatre to be.

BroadwayWorld

Deliciously modern and totally relevant.

MD Theatre Guide

Absolutely hilarious, witty and intelligent

DC Metro Theater Arts

Highly recommended…a new musical with depth, complexity and heart, Soon has landed on stage at just the right time.

DC Theatre Scene

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