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Mad Cat Theatre Company presents
WORLD PREMIERE COMEDY!
THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY PAUL TEI
MARCH 4, 2010
7:00 PM and 9:30 PM
General Admission Tickets $31 and VIP Tickets $67
The Backstage at the Fillmore (the Jackie Gleason Theatre)
Miami Beach, Florida
MIAMI, FL JANUARY 18, 2010 – For the second year in a row, Miami’s own Mad Cat Theatre Company will be returning to the South Beach Comedy Festival! This time the troupe is back with a dangerous cast of characters in The Preservation Society, a world premiere comedy, written and directed by Mad Cat’s founder, Paul Tei.
Leave it to Mad Cat to turn a wake into a comedy. Polly Chekhov, a comedy writer in Hollywood, California comes back to Hollywood, Florida for the wake of her beloved grandmother Mary. It is left to her to write her grandmother’s eulogy; however, a peculiar set of distractions that include a bassoonist, her eccentric family, and a chorus of Deconstructionist, keep Polly from finishing. In a journey to encapsulate who her grandmother was, Polly must also wrestle with the meaning to her own life as well as what it means to be a free thinking woman in society.
Featuring Mad Cat Company members and some of Miami’s hot, hip and offbeat new talent with Melissa Almaguer, Sofia Citarella * and Tiffany Hanan Madera as the three sisters with Anne Tei & Pio Tei as their parents, along with Betsy Graver*, Troy Davidson* Margaret Prusner* and Ricky Waugh.
* Mad Cat Company Members
Tickets are on sale now! General Admission Tickets are $31 and VIP Tickets are $67 with applicable service charges, and may be purchased online at www.madcattheatre.org; southbeachcomedyfestival.com; or livenation.com or at the Fillmore Box Office located at 1700 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139. Fillmore’s phone number 305.673.7300 and is located one block north of
Lincoln Road and adjacent to the Miami Beach Convention Center. Student tickets ($11) and Industry tickets ($17) with applicable services charges are available at the Fillmore box office with proper ID.
This night of live comedy is a Mad Cat benefit, thus special thanks to the South Beach Comedy Festival as well as the Theatre Authority, Inc. and Actors’ Equity Association for allowing Actors’Equity members, Melissa Almaguer, Ricky Waugh and Betsy Graver to perform.
ABOUT MAD CAT THEATRE COMPANY
Mad Cat Theatre Company was founded in Miami in the fall of 2000 by actor/director/writer Paul Tei. Its mission then remains the same to this day: to create something new that’s exciting for you, us and them. A core group of designers and actors with one artistic director and ten years later and 28
productions under its belt, Mad Cat is still clawing its way into the cultural consciousness of the citizens of Miami with original works such as “Shepherd’s Pie”, “Here in my Car”, “Tin Box Boomerang”, “Artful Dodgers”, “Terminal Baggage”, “Mixtape”, “Viva Bourgeois” and “Going Green the Wong Way” mixed with their renditions of previous produced play such as “70 Scenes of Halloween”, “Matt & Ben”, “Mr. Marmalade”, “Animals & Plants” and “Some Girls(s)”, Mad Cat has brought originality, vitality and bite to everything they have done. They’ve been decorated with such accolades as best new works, best productions, best fringe theatre, best ensembles, best designers, best director from the Carbonell Committee, the Miami Herald, the Sun Sentinel, the Miami New Times and the Sun Post but its the respect and return engagement of its fan base that makes Mad Cat purr.
For information on Mad Cat visit www.madcattheatre.org