The 24 Hour Musicals

For six years, The 24 Hour Plays rocked Broadway each autumn, with actors taking place such as Chris Rock, Billy Crudup, Kristen Johnston, Edie Falco, Julianna Margulies, Rosie Perez, Lili Taylor, Hope Davis, Brooke Shields and David Cross and writers such as Theresa Rebeck and David Lindsay Abaire taking the charity plunge to create cast, direct, rehearse, tech and perform short plays in an obscenely small amount of time.  

Now, to help the eXchange, it was time to conquer musicals.

For the past two years, The 24 Hour Company have teamed with the Exchange to produce the first ever  24 Hour Musicals.  Presented in association with New York magazine, four brand new musicals get written, cast, rehearsed and performed at Joe’s in a single day, featuring with an all-new all-star line up of Broadway performers, great composers and writers, directors and to top it all off, choreographers and musical directors.  Led by creative director Ted Sperling (musical director of Light in the Piazza, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and South Pacific and director of the Public’s See What I Wanna See and Striking 12), the participants are always a who’s who of American musical theatre, all clashing under one small roof in the smallest amount of time.  

WE ARE CURRENTLY SETTING UP THE 2010 SHOW - PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS

 
Proceeds from The 24 Hour Musicals benefit the Exchange, a theatre production company in New York that reinterprets classic texts and supports development in order to create the classics of the future.  Unlike other theatre companies, the Exchange supports the work of a number of other artists and companies through the Orchard Project retreat in upstate New York (www.orchardproject.com) and with initiatives such as the Kesselring Fellowship, a writing award it presents in partnership with the National Arts Club. (www.exchangenyc.org)

 
to enquire about tickets and tables
to this fabulous event,
email info@exchangenyc.org