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Bound to Rise

Bound to Rise is a comedy with a happy ending, based on four of Horatio Alger's 'strive and succeed' novels, in which the young protagonists succeed against the odds in the New York City of the 1890s. But this was also the time of the robber barons, when thousands of children lived on the streets while the wealthy attended "poverty socials" dressed in rags and drank champagne out of beer buckets. A time of striking contrast between opulent mansions and the overcrowded tenements where three quarters of the city's people lived. So this portrait of the city a century and a quarter ago is even more relevant today in the era of the "one percent" and billionaire banksters.

with Christopher Hirschmann Brandt ~ John Cencio Burgos ~ Mark J. Dempsey ~ Pamela Ehn ~ Jonathan Emerson ~ Mark Gering ~ Beth Griffith ~ Richard Gross ~ Richard Keyser ~ Justyna Kostek ~ Scott Schutzman ~ Paolo Solis ~ Kathleen Wilce

Book & Lyrics by Stephen Policoff
Music by Robert Dennis
Directors: Paul Murphy & Oliver Conant
Dramaturge/Assistant Director: Regan Vann
Musical Directors: Jonathan Matthews & Gregory Nissen
Choreography by Theresa Duhon
Costumes by Derek Lockwood

Preview admission (January 26th through January 29th): $23
General admission: $30
Seniors & Students: $23
Group rates available
TDF Accepted