THE RUBY SUNRISE By Rinne Groff Directed by Gift Ensemble Member John Gawlik
Previews: July 9th – 12th , 2009 Press Opening: Monday, July 13th at 7:30pm Runs: July 16th - August 30th, 2009 Times: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30pm; Sundays at 2:30pm. Cost: $20 tickets on Thursday night & Sunday matinee; $25 on Friday & Saturday night; $15 preview, student, senior, and industry tickets.
Featuring: Gift Ensemble Members John Kelly Connolly, Alexandra Main, Artistic Director, Michael Patrick Thornton (Jeff Award Winner), with Brenda Barrie, Jennifer Betancourt, Nick Bonges, Patrick De Nicola, Caitlin Emmons, Katie Genualdi, Maura Kidwell and Raymond Shoemaker.
Crew: Ian Zywica is the set designer, John Horan is the lighting designer, Erin Fast is the Costume Designer, Christopher Kriz is the Sound Designer and Sarah Luse is the Stage Manager.
Setting off from a farm in Indiana as a young girl named Ruby struggles to turn her dream of the first all-electrical television system into a reality, and jumping forward to a McCarthy-era New York TV studio where Ruby's heirs fight over how her story should be told, THE RUBY SUNRISE charts the course of the phenomenon of television: from early idealism and sparks of genius, to promises fulfilled and compromises brokered, and beyond.
Ruby Sunrise reunites John Gawlik directing Michael Patrick Thornton for the first time since Thornton won the Equity Jeff Award for Solo Performance in The Good Thief.
It's closer than you think: The Gift's 2010 Season. Stay posted!
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