From Golden Globe and Emmy-Award winning, Tony nominated writer Cheri Steinkellner, award-winning composer Georgia Stitt, and a dream-team of great American songwriters comes Hello! My Baby, a riotous new-fashioned musical comedy that reboots Berlin, Gershwin, Kern and a score of others; smartly weaving their updated hits into a timely romantic farce for all ages. Set one-hundred years ago on the sidewalks of New York, young Mickey McKee, King of the Song-Pluggers, dreams of writing the next Tin Pan Alley million-selling hit song. Only problem is Mickey can’t write a note—until he meets Nelly Gold, a teenaged factory girl with a talent for tunes and moxie to spare. Mickey and Nelly make beautiful music together until she puts on the trousers she once sewed, calls herself Ned, and becomes the new King of the Pluggers, and Mickey’s arch-rival. These mismatched young lovers and their unlikely friends sing, dance, bicker, and coo from Debutante Balls to Delancey Street, confronting class struggles, social reform, gender-swapping, street-thugs, and a whole lot of ukuleles, as they sell the songs we’re all still humming a hundred years later.
The show will be at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, with the following dates:
PREVIEWS
March 21 – 23
OPENING NIGHT GALA
Saturday, March 24, 2012
6:15 pm Pre-show Champagne Reception
7:00 Curtain
9:00 Post-show Gala
REGULAR PERFORMANCES
March 25 – April 15
MORE PERFORMANCES
You can also catch H!MB in Santa Barbara!
May 5 – May 6, 2012
Lobero Theatre
