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“Lunch at the Piccadilly” returns to the stage in Spring/Summer 2008, as a collaboration among Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Parkway Playhouse, Playworks, and other theatres. Dates and information about ticket sales will be announced here in January 2007.
If your theatre or venue is interested in the show, please email us at info@playworksonline.org and we will be in touch. Join us for “Lunch at the Piccadilly.” As they say in the title song, “It’s the place to be.”
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The LUNCH AT THE PICCADILLY CD has been getting some nice airplay, most interestingly from a D.J. in Israel named Menachem Vinegrad, of RADIO UPPER GALILEE, which is a part of Israel Radio International. Other stations playing the CD are WFCR "NPR for westernNew England", in Amherst, MA; WHUS, Storrs, CT; KTEP in El Paso, TX; WYSO in Yellow Springs, OH; WFHB in Bloomington, IN; WPKN/WPKM in Montauk LI, NY and Bridgeport, CT; and WRFK in Baton Rouge (home, incidentally, to the Piccadilly Cafeteria chain!)
LUNCH AT THE PICCADILLY is now listed at the 21st Century Musicals website. Check it out and all the other musicals at this excellent new site.
The LUNCH AT THE PICCADILLY CD is now available! It features 11 songs from the show and the novel, performed by Clyde and his band, the Rank Strangers, and Mike Craver. The price is $10.95 and includes free US shipping. Click here for more information.
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In addition to concert appearances with Clyde Edgerton and part of the musical trio that forms The Rank Strangers, Mike Craver has been busy arranging the score for and performing in "Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming." The new musical, a sequel to the popular "Smoke on the Mountain," is appearing at theatres all over the country. You can check out all of this on Mike's site at www.mikecraver.com.
Clyde Edgerton's tenth novel is due out soon, titled "The Bible Salesman." you can find out more about Clyde's work and personal appearances at www.clydeedgerton.com.
Through his production company Playworks, Steve Umberger has been continuing to develop “Lunch at the Piccadilly.” The company will also partner with N.C. Shakespeare Festival to revive Willy Russell’s “Shirley Valentine” for NCSF’s Twin City Series in 08. Umberger also directs the 08 premiere of K.J. Forgette’s “Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Jersey Lily” for People’s Light and Theatre in Philadelphia, “King Lear” for N.C. Shakespeare Festival, and a workshop production of a new musical “Crossfire,” which places Biblical events in the context of contemporary media.
