Professional Performing Arts School and Waterwell Drama Program present CYRANO DE BERGERAC

NEW YORK - Nov. 11, 2013 - PRLog -- Press Contact: ppaspta@gmail.com

New York City’s Professional Performing Arts School and Waterwell Drama Program present  CYRANO DE BERGERAC

By Edmond Rostand

Translated by Carol Clark

PERFORMANCES

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13^TH – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17^th

AT THE PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL (PPAS) , 328 W 48^th ST, NYC

New York, NY November 10, 2013 –The Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) and The Waterwell Drama Program present Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac at PPAS, 328 West 48th St., NYC, in a translation by Carol Clark and directed by Lee Sunday Evans (Resident Director, CollaborationTown). Performances will be Wednesday, November 13^th through Saturday, November 16^th at 7pm, with an additional 2pm matinee on Sunday, November 17^th.

One of the world's most famous and beloved tales, Cyrano de Bergerac centers on the unlikeliest of love triangles. In this contemporary, gender-bending take, lady Cyrano hides her secret love for her childhood friend Roxbert - convinced that he'll never be able to see past her enormous nose. When Roxbert falls hard for the beautiful tongue-tied Christine, Cyrano lends her legendary flair for words to the lines and letters Christine uses to win Roxbert's heart. The play that gave us the word panache takes us on a timeless adventure complete with romance, sacrifice and derring-do.

The creative team for Cyrano de Bergerac also includes James J. Fenton (Scenic Designer), Kathleen Doyle (Costume Designer), Barbara Samuels (Lighting Designer) and Kortney Barber (Sound Designer). The cast is comprised entirely of high school students at the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS).

Tickets can be purchased at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/508857

Tickets are $10 for PPAS students, $20 dollars for adults.  PPAS is located at 328 W 48^th St in New York, NY.

For further information, please email inquiries to ppaspta@gmail.com.

ABOUT THE PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL

The Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) was created in 1990 to meet the needs of two groups of students: those who wanted to pursue professional work in the arts as they earned a junior/senior high school diploma and those who wanted to study the arts as an avocation. It is the special mission of this small, personalized school to develop, refine, and showcase students in dance, drama, and vocal music while also providing them with a rigorous, meaningful academic curriculum. Every student auditions for a performing arts major. Performing arts instruction is delivered by professional dancers, actors and musicians through professional studios. Academic staff give students opportunities for daily study through a rigorous, comprehensive, sequential, fully integrated academic curriculum. The course of study, ending in a New York State Regents endorsed diploma, is centered around an interdisciplinary, multicultural, inquiry based approach to learning which prepares students for college and/or a professional career in the arts.’

ABOUT WATERWELL

Waterwell is a unique ensemble of theater artists dedicated to the creation of new work and the bold re-interpretation of classics. Founded in 2002 by Arian Moayed and Tom Ridgely, the company’s special blend of music, theater and social dialog has been nominated for three IT awards, a Drama Desk, a New York Magazine Culture award and Village Voice Best of NYC.

The Waterwell Drama Program is NYC’s premiere training ground for young artists, innovators and leaders. Founded in 2010 and led by Waterwell Director of Education Rebecca Schwartzin partnership with the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS), it delivers top-quality, year-round, in-school theater training to over 300 NYC public school students. The program’s Performance Projects at PPAS build on its award-winning training program by offering each grade its own added production experience, including full-length production of classics and new play workshops with professional writers, directors, and designers.