University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI) Announce Special Musical Performances of Ed Trach's Sugar 'n' Spice at CCM, April 28-29

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, in association with the Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative, has scheduled two stage readings of the new musical comedy Sugar 'n' Spice, written and composed by Ed Trach, at CCM in Master Classroom 3250, Mary Emery Hall, Corbett Center for the Performing Arts, on Saturday, April 28. at 8:00 pm, and on Sunday, April 29 at 2:00 pm.

(PRWEB) April 21, 2007 -- University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, in association with the Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative, has scheduled two stage readings of the new musical comedy Sugar 'n' Spice, written and composed by Ed Trach, at CCM in Master Classroom 3250, Mary Emery Hall, Corbett Center for the Performing Arts, on Saturday, April 28. at 8:00 pm, and on Sunday, April 29 at 2:00 pm.

Both performances are open to the public; admission is free, although seating is limited. The audience is invited to remain after the matinée performance on Sunday for a talkback session with the writer about the piece.

The director is Robert Wood and the music director is Jason Yarcho, both students at CCM working under the supervision of Dr. Aubrey Berg, chairman of the musical theater program.

"I'm grateful to CPI and to the judges for selecting Sugar 'n' Spice for development," Ed Trach said. "It's an honor to have this reading at the best musical theater school in the country, and a privilege to work with such exceptionally gifted young artists. "

Sugar 'n' Spice is about a talented but innocent young woman who comes to New York to sing on a TV talent show and through a fluke ends up being cast against type as the new vixen in a daytime soap opera. Gradually the bad girl she plays begins to invade the good girl she is, and her real life gets as messed up as her fictional life on the show. It is set in the early 1960's, when television was black and white, soaps were "live," and the country was on the verge of the sexual revolution.

The musical uses the soap opera form as a metaphor for life as it takes on its popular story conventions - the virgin heroine, dark family secrets, fractured romantic triangles, bizarre back-story - all seasoned with a bit of commedia dell arte as life and art imitate each other in surprising ways. The score reflects some of the jazz, swing and pop idioms of the period.

The musical won a developmental grant from the Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative, an organization of playwrights, directors and actors dedicated to developing plays written by local playwrights. For more information about CPI, visit www.cinciplaywrights.org.

For more info contact:

Edward Trach

859 344-6003

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