I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road by
Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford (The Last Sweet Days of Isaac, Shelter)
is one of the most enduring and empowering Off-Broadway musicals of all
time. The show premiered in the late 1970s Off-Broadway at the Public
Theater and ran for years, becoming a sensation for all theatre-goers.
The story follows a fictional cabaret singer, Heather Jones, as she
evolves her traditional act of romantic pop tunes to a bold new act full
of emancipating, feminist pieces. As she performs the new show, song by
song, Heather fights to achieve an artistic metamorphosis while her
dominating manager, Joe, tries to keep her act in the past.
The never-before-seen-or-heard sequel, Still Getting My Act Together,
takes place 30 years after the original and will also be presented
Mufti-style for the first time ever onstage. In this new show, Heather
and her daughter take center stage and will uncover just what happened
in the three decades since Heather got her act together and took it on
the road... And, in a real treat for music theatre aficionados, the
sequel will feature three cast members from the original production:
Gretchen Cryer (also the show's librettist), Betty Aberlin and Margot
Rose.
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