SCIALLI PRODUCTIONS Proudly Presents the World Premiere of MAGIC BOX

Five magicians. Five agendas. One magic box. Who will open it?

SCIALLI PRODUCTIONS
Proudly Presents the World Premiere of

MAGIC BOX
Five magicians. Five agendas. One magic box. Who will open it?

Written by TONY SCIALLI

Directed and Choreographed by LIZ PICCOLI

 LIMITED ENGAGEMENT - THREE PERFORMANCES ONLY
MAY 19 - 21, 2023 AT THE TRIAD THEATER

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW HERE

SCIALLI PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Tony Scialli’s MAGIC BOX directed and choreographed by Liz Piccoli. MAGIC BOX will play a three-performances-only limited engagement at Off-Broadway’s Triad Theatre (158 West 72nd Street, NYC). Performances are May 19 at 9:30 pm and May 20 - 21 at 7 pm. Tickets are $39 with a two drink minimum and are available now at https://www.instantseats.com/?fuseaction=home.venue&artistID=24768&venueID=526. ​

Five magicians. Five agendas. One magic box. Who will open it in this lively, sexy new musical?

Why did the recently deceased Amazing Jack leave all his magic props to his incompetent apprentice, Charlie? Jack even left Charlie the magic box, a powerful instrument intended for good that has the misfortune of attracting evildoers. Jack’s daughter, Laura, a young but skillful magician, must protect the box from an oversexed witch who refuses to get old and who shares some shocking family secrets. 

Laura desperately wants a family or at least a friend. But who can she trust? Armando, her former Latin lover who has been seduced by the dark side? Merlin (no, not that Merlin!), her late father’s best friend? Will Laura find the power to turn the tables or will evil triumph? Where is the magic? Come see Magic Box to find out! 

“I had a ball writing Magic Box,” exclaims Scalli. “Five magicians deceiving one another as much as they deceive their audiences, what could be more fun as the connections keep unfolding?” ​ 
“I found our actual magic box prop in an antique store upstate and it called out to me to be discovered...inside were marriage/personal papers from a couple from the 40s. ​ Apparently, their love story needed to live on in some way. ​ I'm thrilled to bring new life to the mysteries, sensuality, and endurance of the stories past and present that bind us,” says director, Piccoli. ​ 

The production stars Cambria Klein as Laura, Dani Wergiles as Charlie, Sonya Hernández as Danielle, Kevin Luís as Armando, Isaac Conner as Merlin, Kristina Dizon as Ensemble/Understudy, and Marcell McKenzie as Ensemble/Understudy.

Executive produced by Jeremy Handelman (two-time Tony Award-nominated producer,The Kite Runner, John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons, On The Town (revival)), the production features music direction/arrangement by Seth Weinstein (Save the World, Find True Love in 90 Minutes), and costume design by Jess Gersz (Dodger Theatricals, Troika Entertainment…). Production Stage manager is Thomas Donohoe. Publicity by Katie Rosin/Kampfire PR.

 

MAGIC BOX plays the following schedule:
​ May 19 at 9:30 pm (doors open at 9 pm) ​
​ May 20-21 at 7 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm)

Tickets are $39 with a two-drink minimum and are available now at https://www.instantseats.com/?fuseaction=home.venue&artistID=24768&venueID=526. ​ 

Running Time: 80 minutes

Website: magicboxmusical.com

Media Kit with Photos

 

BIOGRAPHIES

TONY SCIALLI (Book, Music, Lyrics) started writing musicals in high school, won first place in his college’s literary contest, and was then distracted by a career as a physician and medical school professor. Tony has returned to writing for the musical theater in Washington DC and New York. Other shows: Dragon Slayer (Winterfest Theater Festival nomination for best score), Dora, Boston Massacre.

 

LIZ PICCOLI (Director/Choreographer) Previous credits include: Director/Choreographer/Dramaturg for Spandex the Musical- The Audio Musical with Tony Award-winning Kai Harada, written by Daniel Levin, performed Off-Broadway and in Minneapolis (www.spandexmusical.com,) Zoom Director for Noble Family written by Cecilia Lin produced by Jim Kierstead, SDC Observer for Lysistrata Jones which transferred to Broadway, Director/Choreographer for Billy Elliot at the Axelrod Theater (Outstanding Choreography Perry Award Nomination 2017) and Assistant Choreographer for the TV Land Awards with Liza Minnelli. Last summer she directed her first short film, My Body is My Temple which is a Paris Film Award Winner, and ​ choreographed a feature film, Dirty Rhetoric, starring Tovah Feldshuh. Opera choreography includes Goyescas with Bare Opera in NYC and The Little Prince in Milan, Italy. Just before the pandemic, she choreographed Miss Saigon at the University of HI, in Oahu and after the pandemic she was thrilled to continue work Directing Into the Woods at Proctors, The Secret Garden with the Virginia Children's Theater, and a new work in development, My Father’s Play. lizpiccoli.com

 

SETH WEINSTEIN (Music Director/Arranger) wrote the music for the Off-Broadway musical How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes (New World Stages) and The Magic Fishbone (developed at the Broadway Mentors Program). He also wrote and recorded “The Chagall Suite” (eight piano movements inspired by Marc Chagall’s artworks) and “Conversations” (a musical meeting between Chagall and Elvis Presley) and has performed them around the USA and Germany and France.

Seth has toured internationally with Fosse and Ivan Jacobs’s The Phantom of the Opera and in the USA with Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver. He has been the musical director of Black House (Zagreb, Croatia), Do I Hear a Waltz? (Arvada Center), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), and Ben, Virginia & Me (Acorn Theatre, NYC), among other shows. He is the pianist for the MAC and Bistro Award-winning Screen Gems: Songs of Old Hollywood (featuring Sarah Rice) and Operation Opera (featuring Adelmo Guidarelli), and he performs regularly with soprano Jodi Keogan.

Seth has played for Holland America Line and Hapag-Lloyd cruises, has won Scrabble tournaments in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, and is halfway through an endeavor to walk the perimeters of 26 islands from Aruba to Zanzibar. sethweinstein.com.

 

JEREMY HANDELMAN (Executive Producer) is a two-time Tony Award-nominated producer whose Broadway credits include The Kite Runner, John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons, and the revival of On the Town. Of his other many credits: Off-Broadway and regional production of the rock musical comedy Brooklyn Crush, formerly F#%king Up Everything (NY Times Critics' Pick & Best New Musical nominee), White’s Lies, and the acclaimed production of The Chekhov Dreams. He is one of the lead producers of Dearly Beloved, a fully immersive theater production slated for 2024, and is on the producing team for several Broadway-aimed musicals currently in development.

In 2020, Jeremy made a very successful pivot to live stream production, serving as producer/director/tech director and/or video designer for a variety of theater and non-theater projects. He is the founder of Off The Leash Productions, where he produces a wide range of marketing and entertainment videos including commercials, promos, web videos, and performance shoots. OffTheLeashProductions.com

Past Lives: Vice President, Programming, CBS Sports; Vice President, Programming Sales, Wink Communications. Current Lives: Board Member of Houses on the Moon Theater Company and Brown University Club in New York.

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Listings Information:

Who: SCIALLI PRODUCTIONS
What:
Tony Scialli’s MAGIC BOX directed and choreographed by Liz Piccoli
Where:
Off-Broadway’s Triad Theatre (158 West 72nd Street, NYC)
When: May 19 at 9:30 pm and May 20-21 at 7 pm
How: Tickets are $39 https://www.instantseats.com/?fuseaction=home.venue&artistID=24768&venueID=526

Five magicians. Five agendas. One magic box. Who will open it in this lively, sexy new musical?

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