New Pseudo-Opera - THE ONE & ONLY - Listen for FREE

July 1, 2010 - PRLog -- A FREE staged reading of a new musical by Ray Buffer & Robert Gross
Directed by Ray Buffer
Music Direction and Piano by Jeanette Yaryan
Part of the LA Festival of New American Musicals

7PM - July 1, 2010 - FREE
478 West 6th Street, San Pedro, CA  90731

JEN CLAIRE CAMERON – Shaina Zalma
NATE LONG – Kenneth Taylor
RANDOM – Holley Replogle-Wong
SILENE – Leigh Golden
IRIS – Lindsey Taylor
ISAAC - Joel Brown
PRINCIPAL KING – Ray Buffer
AGENT MEDEA MCINTYR – Kristin Towers-Rowles
PROFESSOR ULYSSES – Stephen Pu
GLORIA OSSA – Tricia Fukuhara
HIGH PRIESTESS HELEN – Jennifer Wallace
DALE CAMERON - Robert Gross
RUTH CAMERON/MRS. TEACHER - Megan Willis

DIRECTOR - Ray Buffer
MUSIC DIRECTOR/PIANO - Jeanette Louise Yaryan
STAGE MANAGER - Jack Molisani
SOUND - Bob Estrada
SOUND ASSISTANT - Victor Prudeaux
LIGHTS - Richard Taylor
COSTUME ELEMENTS - Kara McLeod
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND PROGRAM - Omar Razo
VIDEO RECORDING - Mark Wells and Phil Buono
HOUSE MANAGER - Carla Negri
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT & USHER - Liz Mederos
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS (PUBLICITY) & USHERS - Kiesha Bougere and Anza Dixon

Special Thanks to Ryan Rowles for Sound Equipment, to PRIORITY ONE PRINTING for program printing, and to Lee Sweet and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Warner Grand Theatre is a facility of LA DCA.

Jen Claire Cameron is an unusual, teen aged girl. Not just because she is precocious with a soulful outlook on life, but also because she was born with one eye in the middle of her face.

Born in secrecy and sheltered by a rural upbringing, Jen Claire’s existence comes to light when an opportunistic optometrist is called to the family cabin to treat a cataract that suddenly appears when Jen Claire is 15. The eye doctor leaks word of her existence to the press and pandemonium ensues.

After moving to the big city of Homer, Indiana – Jen Claire starts school and begins to become socialized. After some growing pains she makes friends with a group of misfits: Tien, a deaf boy; Random, a girl with ADHD; Silene, a girl who lost her ability to walk after learning of her parent’s death; Iris, an actress and a lesbian; and Isaac, a born leader with the weight of the world on his shoulders.

Adding complication to Jen Claire’s life is the arrival of three people each with their own agenda: Agent Mcyntyr from Homeland Security wants to take Jen Claire to her superiors because the government suspects she may not be of this world; High Priestess Helen, a religious leader who believes Jen Claire to be Polyphenus reincarnated; and Professor Ulysses, who suspects that as a mutant, Jen Clare may hold some genetic secrets that could further his stem cell research.

Jen Claire just wants to live a normal life, and not be alone – but she has a hard time accepting affection, trusting people and gaining acceptance for the person she is, and not what she looks like. Is beauty truly in the eye of the beholder? Find out in “The One & Only” by Ray Buffer and Robert Gross – a sung thru musical/opera using some characters as created by composer, Robert Gross in his comic strip of the same name and placed in a story that is loosely based on Homer’s “The Odyssey” and Euripides’ “Polyphemus”.

“The One & Only” will receive a staged reading performance at Warner Grand Theatre at 478 West 6th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731 on July 1, 2010. Free to the public, seats are available on a first come first serve basis.

A Q&A may take place following the performance either in the theatre or the lobby.

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The Relevant Stage Theatre Company performs in residence at The Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro, CA. TRS' mission is to challenge hearts, engage minds and expose truths. TRS tells relevant stories about the contemporary world we share.