Three show readings Sep-Oct 2013
Luba will be doing a reading of Michael John LaChiusa's "First Daughter Suite" on Oct. 14th playing Hannah Nixon, Richard's Quaker mother.
Playbill: "His upcoming projects also include a sequel to his 1993 musical First Lady Suite, titled First Daughter Suite. The piece is a commission for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and will have a New York reading this fall."
Playbill: Autumn Hurlbert, Luba Mason, AJ Shively and Lenny Wolpe Set for Reading of New Musical Pumped
Staged readings of the new musical Pumped will be presented Sept. 26-27 at the Roundabout Theater Rehearsal Studios in Manhattan.
Pumped features music and lyrics by Kyle Ewalt and Michael Ian Walker (Bromance: the Dudesical) and a book by JD Jacobson and Nicole Jacobson.
Directed by Evan Pappas with musical direction and arrangements by Adriá Barbosa, the readings will feature the talents of Autumn Hurlbert, Luba Mason, AJ Shively and Lenny Wolpe with Lisa Birnbaum, Zachary Clause, Kevin Curtis, Tessa Faye, Michael Lorz, Ashley Park, CJ Pawlikowski, Jacqueline Petroccia, Todd Thurston, Andromeda Turre and Vicki Van Tassel. Casting is by Michael Cassara, CSA.
Marla Woodhill presents the invitation-only readings of Pumped, which, press notes state, tells the story of "Gloria (Hurlbert), a fashion-challenged MBA graduate, who must succeed in the shoe salon of a renowned NYC retailer in order to fulfill her late mother’s dreams. When the store is threatened by a ruthless private equity firm, Gloria, helped by a trio of talking pumps, must take a risk, find her passion, and above all, be true to her shoes."
~ August 10 East Meadow, NY Luba received the Outstanding Individual Performance Award for her role in Julian Po at the 10th NYMF Closing Night Celebration. -- Luba will be on the air, interviewed between 10 and 11am live on the AM970 The Answer, with Michael Robinson this Saturday 7/27. Listen in NYC or online at www.am970theanswer.com.
Luba finished a reading for "Social Life : The Musical" last Tuesday, Sept 17. This show's book & lyrics are by Ricky Dunlop & Chris Myers.
Music by Chris Myers
with contributions from Fiona Teerlink. Additional Music Production by Grammy-Nominated producer Lonnie Park.
"All-American family. Mother. Daughter. Father. Son. Grandma. They mainly communicate through social networks, but hardly with each other anymore. But in our show, there's a twist. Just wait and see."
Luba Mason will be taking part in Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway at the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theater in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, NY on August 10 at 7:30pm.
~NYMF Outstanding Individual Performance
Luba live on AM970 7/27