Disgraced Productions
Presents

The Butterfield Tones
By Robert Attenweiler

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Tickets: $8

Dates
Times
Saturday 3/10
10pm
Sunday 3/11
2:30pm
Monday 3/12
7:30pm
Friday 3/16
9pm
Sunday 3/18
5:30pm
"One of the most talented poets writing for the theatre right now...I love this writing...the piece packs a wallop"
Martin Denton
NYtheatre.com

 

 

The Butterfield Tones pits a musical duo loosely based on the iconic Ike and Tina Turner against the ghost of a masked professional wrestler. It’s “The Supremes meet Sam Shepard” as Robert Attenweiler’s language pulses with the rhythm of Motown. Featuring original songs with lyrics by Robert Attenweiler.

 

The Playwright:

Robert Attenweiler (playwright/producer/director) was a graduate fellow in the Dramatic Writing Department at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He was also a semi-finalist (top 40 of 2400) for the 2005 ABC Television Writing Fellowship and was n amed in “Who is Indie Theatre in New York ?” by www.indietheatre.org.

Rob Egginton (Director) is originally from Westchester County, New York.  He graduated with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Miami in 2003.  In New York, he was a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s “Committed” Lab.  Rob is a founding member of Panicked Productions and directed their premiere Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap.

Cast and Crew :

 

Becky Benhayon

Becky Benhayon (Tina) was most recently seen in Kansas City Or Along The Way at The Red Room.  Before that she was seen in Disgraced Productions’ sold out, extended run of Cowboy Mouth.  Favorite New York Stage credits include Tunia in Robert Attenweiler’s world premiere of Places Like Here at the 2005 NY Fringe Festival, Portia in Julius Caesar at the Theatre for the New City and the lovely Bride in a workshop production of Song of Solomon at Classic Stage Company.  Becky is a recent graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she trained with the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and the Experimental Theater Wing.

Joe Stipek

Joe Stipek (Ike) is a graduate of the Atlantic Theater Co. Acting School and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. His credits include: Film and TV: Montana Meth PSA directed by Darren Aronofsky, NYU Grad Thesis Film futureperfect.  Off-Broadway: The Night Heron Atlantic Theater Co. New York Theater: Say Hello, Children Red Room, Life and Limb pennydreadful, Three Days of Rain Pantheon, Unidentified Human Remains... Theater Row. His directing credits include Buried Child Theater Annex and Little Murders Stage Two.

Wil Petre

Wil Petre (Jose Silencio) Recent New York credits include 'Twas the Night Before (Flea Theater), Hell House (St. Ann's Warehouse/Les Freres Corbusier), Blood Wedding (Walkerspace/Woodshed Collective), and In a Hall in the Palace of Phyrrus (Ohio Theatre, Ice Factory/Witness Relocation Company).  The Cherry Orchard, Dance Dance Revolution, The Blue Room and Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Morals, (Williamstown Theatre Festival).  Commercial specs for Coca-Cola and Axe Body Spray.  BFA from NYU Tisch.

Nathan Williams

Nathan Williams (MC) was born in Columbus, Ohio where he spent most of his time chillin’ out max and relaxing all cool and all shootin’ some B-ball outside of his school.  Nathan now resides in New York and most recently performed in Sam Shepard’s La Turista, at Collective Unconscious, and before that in New York Stories at Urban Stages.  He appeared live as “Fanboy Minotaur” at the 2006 SpikeTV Video Game Awards and can be seen regularly as “guy in the background eating fake food,” on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

 

Here's what they said about Disgraced Productions:

”Attenweiler's play is poignant and moving; it feels like [what] William Inge might write if he were living in the Lower East Side nowadays (though there are traces of O'Neill and Williams here as well) …[T]he poetic dialogue almost always [surprises]: there's real beauty here, suggestive of a nascent talent that absolutely bears watching. … I know I'll be watching for the next works from Disgraced Productions eagerly.”

Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
“Like rock 'n' roll itself, with its all-or-nothing attitude in the face of youth's big hopes and slim chances, [Disgraced Productions] helps life's disappointments seem a little less lonesome.”
Will Cordiero, OffOffOnline