Synopsis...

You're It! Is an interactive musical written by Grammy-nominated composer/lyricist, Earl Wilson, Jr. [Let My People Come, Best Original cast Album, 1974.] The five member cast brings volunteers on stage and brings audience members up on stage to help create the show: ad-libbing, reading lines, even dancing in a Vegas-style showgirl number. The original score is tuneful and describes what it is like being in the theater and on stage. Sometimes the audience volunteers are given a few lines to read and a small script; sometimes they are given nothing… they just have to make it up as they go along. "They are taught that acting isn’t acting, it’s reacting," Wilson explains. The show is about what it is like to be in the theater…and we "actually put them into the show. It isn’t like karaoke—they don’t sing—and we don’t embarrass anyone."

The fun begins when the audience enters the theater. They are "auditioned" on camera by being given a few lines to say as different characters. "It’s a great ice-breaker," explains Wilson, "and we use the video in the show."

You're It! will be opening in New York City at Tony’s Di Napoli Restaurant on April 25, 2005.

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