Current Season 2009 Season 2009 - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Performances 2008 - Bat Boy: The Musical 2008 - The Full Monty 2008 - The Life 2007 - White Hot Broadway 2007 - Reefer Madness 2007 - Totally Electric 2007 - Hair 2006 - Asher Dance Eclectic FUSION 2006 - Quilt 2006 - Broadway Gone MAD 2005 - Ragtime 2005 - Driven, Asher Dance Eclectic 2005 - Personals 2004 - Tommy 2004 - Perfectly Frank 2004 - La Cage Aux Folles 2004 - Breaking the Mold 2004 - Annie 2003 - Wheels in Motion 2003 - Purlie 2002 - Cabaret 2001 - Hair 2001 - Asher Dance Eclectic 2000 - Pippin
Performances
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April 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m.


Matinees on April 6 and 13 at 3 p.m.


Venue

The Ritz Ybor

1503 E. 7th Avenue (formerly the Masquerade), Ybor City, Tampa

Parking is conveniently located in the Centro Ybor Parking Garage, located between 15th and 16th Streets, 2 blocks south of 7th Avenue. For driving instructions, Click Here.

Synopsis

THE LIFE depicts the streets of NYC's Times Square in the 1980's, back when pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, dealers, runaways and street people ruled 42nd Street. The award-winning musical dramatically captures their collective struggle to survive. Beneath the bedlam, characters discover hope and despair, riches and ruins, freedom and entrapment, and above all, the huge price of living THE LIFE.

Cy Coleman's (Sweet Charity, Barnum, City of Angel's) score is charged with emotionally revealing songs; the music is the pulse of life itself, as experienced by the show's characters. Trapped in a location and situations most of us would avoid at all costs, the personal stories and dreams of Fleetwood, Memphis, Jojo, Sonja, Queen, Mary and Lou are realistic and gripping.

Cast

Directed by

Justyn Wade Dansby

Choreographed by

Elizabeth Robins-Edelson

Produced by

Cathy Hooten

Assistant Director

Ricky Cona

Vocal Musical Director

Michael Raabe

Musical Director

Brent Douglas

Stage Manager

Adam Bost

Assistant Stage Manager

Erin Lightning

Technical Director/Stage Manager

David Kuck

Props Manager

Simone Paulus

Costume Designer

Carlye Carroll

Makeup & Hair Designer

Charelle Baker

Original Broadway Production Produced by

Roger Berlind, Martin Richards, Cy Coleman and Sam Crothers

Starring

Coya Bailey Jones - Queen
Frank J. Edmondson - Fleetwood
Scott Hamilton - Jojo
Eileen Lymus-Sanders - Sonja
Curtis Griffin - Memphis
Jessica Barker - Mary
Billy Martinez - Lou
Deryl Richardson - Lacy/Shoeshine
Erin Hooten - April
Rebecca Goldman - Tracy
Kyndal O'Neal - Frenchie
Shari Locascio - Carmen
Whitney Walker - Taylor
Chani Ward-Cabil - Chi Chi
Carolyne Weber - Crissy
Elizabeth Robins-Edelson - Sheila
Marquita Arnold - Michelle
Gilbert Robinson, Jr. - Enrique/Oddjob/Shantella
Kelvin Stroud - Snickers

Call for Designers, Technicians, and Volunteers

Current positions available

  • Costume Designers
  • Lighting Design/Operator
  • Running Crew
  • Dressers