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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 24, 2004

Contact: Angie Joe
713.743.8153 (office)
713.617.7138 (pager)
ajoe@uh.edu

A new generation of potential Broadway talent debuts during the University of Houston’s Musical Theatre Lab production 8 p.m., Dec. 3-4 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

Stuart Ostrow, top Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and Distinguished University Professor of Theatre at UH, has personally selected three teams of composers, lyricists, authors, directors, producers, performers and choreographers to perform excerpts from three new musicals based on these well-known works:

• Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit,” which tells the story of six Mexican-American men and one woman who buy a suit they believe works miracles;
  
• Jean Anouilh’s classic play “Time Remembered,” in which a working-class Parisian woman accepts a mysterious position in an aristocratic home and
  
• Alice Sebold’s best-selling novel “The Lovely Bones,” which tells of young Susie Salmon who dies in a violent crime and watches her family fall apart from Heaven.

In 1973, Ostrow’s Musical Theatre Lab began at the St. Clements Church in New York City. The organization later developed at the Kennedy Center, Harvard College and UH. The program is in its 31st season.

Advance purchase tickets are $5, $7 at the door. To purchase tickets, call (713) 315-2525 or visit www.uniquelyhouston.org.

For more information, call Christopher Hyde at (713) 521-3785.

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