By Tatiana Castellanos
The Free Synagogue of Flushing Community Theatre Group celebrates its 40th season with the premiere of a original musical written and directed by long-time Queens resident Mark Lord.
The play, “Let’s Hear it for Queens,” tells the history of the borough’s evolution from the 1600s to the current day, while highlighting and saluting some world-famous entertainers with ties to Queens. The show also includes a series of monologues that bring to life the memories of many people who remember what life was like in Queens way back when.
The play features a multi-generational and multi-cultural cast of nearly three dozen singers, actors and dancers.
A special tribute to the theater group will mark the beginning of its fifth decade of entertaining audiences, featuring the talents of veterans Richard Weyhausen, Amanda Doria and Alison Feuer Pascuzzi.
Headlining the cast is Kieran Larkin as Antiquous, a man old enough to have lived in the era when his only neighbors were the native Americans; Jean-Ann Kump, who pays tribute to Astoria’s own Ethel Merman; and Andrew Anton as the acclaimed performer from the same neighborhood, Tony Bennett.
If you go
Free Synagogue of Flushing Community Theatre Group
“Let’s Hear it for Queens”
Saturday, May 4 and May 11 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 5 and May 12 at 3 p.m.
41-60 Kissena Blvd., Flushing
(718) 428-8681
www.fsfctg.org
