FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE....July 6, 2007

Contact David Turner, 518-798-7479, dturner@atfestival.org

ADIRONDACK THEATRE FESTIVAL

continues with a two week run of

TICK…TICK…BOOM!

written by the PULITZER PRIZE winning author of RENT

JONATHAN LARSON

8pm Performances July 19-21, 23-28 at Charles R. Wood Theater

“Pay what you can” preview performance on Thursday, July 19 at 8pm.

Pre-show Wine tasting hosted by New York Wine Cork,

WED July 25, 7pm; $15

The Adirondack Theatre Festival’s 13^th summer season of new and contemporary professional theater culminates with TICK…TICK…BOOM! an autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of RENT, who died tragically following that show’s dress rehearsal in 1996 at the age of 36.  This season marks the end of Artistic Director Martha Banta and Producing Director David Turner’s leadership of ATF 15 years after they founded the company.  Given the unique history which Ms. Banta and ATF shared with Jonathan Larson, there could not be a more perfect way to celebrate the end of one era for ATF, and the beginning of another. 

Written in the late 1980s as Larson approached his 30^th birthday, TICK…TICK…BOOM! tells the story of a promising, young composer on the eve of his 30^th birthday.  His girlfriend wants to get married, his best friend is making big bucks in advertising, and he’s still waiting tables and trying to write the great American musical before time, and, unbeknownst to him, life passes him by.   This version of TICK…TICK…BOOM! was rewritten following Larson’s death with the consent of his family and ran Off-Broadway in 2000.

TICK…TICK…BOOM! marks the return to ATF of Director Gabriel Barre who directed the musical JOHN & JEN in ATF’s second season in 1996.  Barre has directed numerous Off Broadway and regional productions including THE WILD PARTY,  ALMOST MAINE, SUMMER OF ’42 and the recent National Tour of PIPPIN for Goodspeed Musicals.  The cast of TICK…TICK..BOOM! features Conlin Hanlon in the lead role of Jonathan.  Hanlon appeared at ATF’s Winter Benefit this past January and has also appeared in the Broadway production of RENT and the George Street Playhouse production of TICK…TICK…BOOM! Sarah Glendening plays his girlfriend Susan (along with other roles) and has appeared in the Broadway company of GOOD VIBRATIONS.  Ryan Duncan, who plays his best friend Michael (as well as other roles), was in the original cast of ALTAR BOYZ Off-Broadway as well as National Tours of MAN OF LA MANCHA and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.  The creative team also includes Musical Director Gary Adler (Musical Director of AVENUE Q on Broadway, composer of ALTAR BOYZ Off Broadway, composer of Johnny and the Sprites for The Disney Channel), Set Designer David Esler, Lighting Designer and Glens Falls native Jason Kantrowitz, Sound Designers Jill Duboff and Matt O’Hare, and Costume Designer Isabel Rubio.  The 4-piece on stage rock band includes Adler, Glens Falls native Chris Reed Jr., Greg Verheyn, and Dan Davine.

For the Eighth year in a row, ATF is offering a “Pay What You Can” preview performance - Thursday, July 19 8pm - as a thank you to the Glens Falls and Queensbury municipal governments who support the Festival.  Tickets will be distributed beginning at 6pm on

Thursday, July 19 on a first-come basis at the Charles R. Wood Theater Box Office, 207 Glens Street.

For the second year ATF’s pre-show wine tasting is back, taking place in the Wood Theater’s  balcony prior to the show, 7pm on WED July 25.  The Wood Theater’s neighbors at NY Wine Cork will host the tasting, with wines themed to TICK…TICK…BOOM!, so patrons can expect at least one champagne!  Wine Tasting is $15 and can be reserved by calling the Box Office.

The Adirondack Theatre Festival’s 13^th season will run June 27 – July 28 at the Charles R. Wood Theater, 207 Glen St. in downtown Glens Falls. The Box Office is located at the Charles R. Wood Theater, 207 Glen Street in Glens Falls and is open 12-6pm MON-SAT.  Also call 518-798-WOOD or go to www.ATFestival.org.  $9 rush tickets are available to ages 23 and under the day of the show.

PUBLICITY PHOTOS OF TICK…TICK…BOOM! AND OTHER ATF SHOWS PAST AND PRESENT ARE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT www.ATFestival.org/press.