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THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE
directed by Matthew 'Motl' Didner
choreographed by Merete Muenter
FEB 7-MAR 8/2015
Charles Mosesian Theater
Robert Brustein’s THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE is a new musical with a lively klezmer score by composer Hankus Netsky. This world premiere comedy features a Romeo and Juliet love story set against the background of antagonistic Jewish sects in the Lower East Side of 1960s Manhattan. A wily Sephardic actor named Da Costa, now down on his luck, dupes Joseph E. Lapidus, a wealthy Hollywood producer, out of his clothes, money, groceries, and self-respect. All the while Da Costa’s lovely daughter Dolores is courted by both one of her father’s beggar companions and Lapidus’ ill-mannered son. THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE is a hilarious sequence of con-games, swindlings, and the search for true love.
New Repertory Theatre’s production of THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE wishes to thank the following donors:
Lucy Beldock
Paul & Kate Buttenwieser
Greg Carr
Ted Cutler
Robert Davoli & Eileen MacDonough
Bill & Lydia Edison
Jon Flint
Alan Friedberg
George & Liz Krupp
Pearl & Paul Levey
Doug Liman
Steve Martin Charitable Foundation
Charlie Marz
The Sholley Foundation
Jerry Slavet
Ted & Mary Wendell
Co-sponsored by Lillian Sober Ain.
This production is dedicated to the memory of George Flint.
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Seating Chart
Company
Joseph E. Lapidus
Jeremiah Kissel
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Jeremiah Kissel
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Joseph E. Lapidus
JEREMIAH KISSEL* returns to New Repertory Theatre after performing in Fiddler on the Roof, Broken Glass, The King of Second Avenue, Imagining Madoff, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Twelfth Night, and Hard Times. Last season in Boston he also appeared in King Lear, Ulysses on Bottles, and Exposed. Screen credits include The Town, The Fighter, The Great Debaters, Stronger, and Joy. He is the recipient of two Elliot Norton Awards (1990, 2014), two IRNEs, and the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence (2003).
Da Costa
Will LeBow
Will LeBow
Da Costa
WILL LeBOW* returns to New Repertory Theatre after performing in The King of Second Avenue. Recent credits include Awake and Sing (Huntington Theatre Company); and Act One (Lincoln Center Theater). As an American Repertory Theatre company actor he appeared in more than 55 productions over 17 seasons including The Merchant of Venice, Full Circle (Elliot Norton Award), Nocturne (Drama Desk Nomination), Endgame, Romance, Copenhagen, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Other credits include The Rivals, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Sonia Flew (Huntington Theatre Company); Once in a Lifetime (American Conservatory Theater); and Casey at the Bat, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, and world premieres of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and The Polar Express (Boston Pops). He is a veteran of 15 years with Shear Madness and three seasons with the Boston Shakespeare Company. Film and television credits include Act One (2015 release), Next Stop Wonderland, What Doesn’t Kill You, Second Sight, and six seasons as Stanley on Comedy Central’s Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist.
Creative Team
