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Horse Trade and Grayce Productions presents
Say Your Prayers, Mug!
Thursday, October 04, 2007 through Saturday, October 27, 2007
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
Mr. and Mrs. Matinee themselves, Skip Rayburn and Dottie Haines, host the 1950s television show "Sunrise Cinema" and eagerly present the long-lost thriller, "Say Your Prayers, Mug!" In between the bubbly hosts’ banter, the 1935 gangster flick comes to life on stage, complete with fist-swingin' cops and fast-talkin' mobsters. A parody within a parody, Say Your Prayers, Mug! playfully sends up not one, but two genres of yesteryear.
Founded in 2001, Grayce Productions exclusively presents parodies and satires of 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's film, theater, and television. Last year's parody of 1930's film, featured in the 10th Annual New York International Fringe Festival, Vice Girl Confidential, not only earned the FringeNYC Award for Outstanding Acting Ensemble, but sold-out its run and garnered critical acclaim. NYTheatre.com called the production "smart, laugh-inducing, and perfect," while Talkin' Broadway dubbed playwright Michael's "crackling way with words… a true pleasure."
Other past productions include Psycho Sorority Girl (Red Room, 2002), The Poverty Row Double Horror Show (Red Room, 2003), Bad Dames Go To Hell! (Red Room, 2004), Damaged Dames (Under St. Marks, 2005), The Greatest B-Movie Ever Told (Fringe Festival, 2005), and The Adventures of Jock Jupiter (Red Room, 2006).
Say Your Prayers, Mug! is Grayce Productions' second co-production with Horse Trade. Horse Trade was founded in 1998 with the aim of operating a self-sustaining theater group which cultivates new and exciting theater and provides the community with low-cost, high-quality venues. In New York City's East Village, Horse Trade operates The Kraine Theater, The Red Room, and Under St. Marks – which are the artistic homes to the many Off-Off Broadway Artists involved in its resident and guest artist programs. Horse Trade's most recent addition is FRIGID New York, an annual uncensored theater festival in which the artists keep 100% of their box office profit. Into its 10th Season and beyond, Horse Trade proudly continues its commitment to New York's independent theater community in supporting the ambition of the numerous voices that make up this vital art form. |
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