We heard from Lawrence Rush, the author of yet another musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (that’s five currently kicking around by our count…guys, she wrote five other books, you know, though Emma is taken as far as we can tell, but we reckon Mansfield Park would make a bitchin’ musical). His musical, which was a finalist for the 2008 Richard Rogers Award, will have an Equity staged reading in New York City on November 10, 2008 at the McGinn/Cazale Theater, 2162 Broadway at W. 76th Street. The reading is open to all but space is limited, so RSVP to prideandprejudicereading AT gmail DOT com. There’s no website that we can tell, but more info below the jump.

A staged reading of “Pride & Prejudice, the Musical”
based on the novel by Jane Austen
Book, Music and Lyrics by Lawrence Rush
2008 Richard Rodgers Award finalist

Monday, November 10th 2008
7:00 PM
McGinn/Cazale Theater
2162 Broadway at W. 76th New York, NY
please RSVP at prideandprejudicereading@gmail.com as space is limited

Directed by Mary Catherine Burke (Austentatious, The Road to Ruin)
Musical Director, Matt Castle (Company, Enter Laughing)

with..Jessica Rush (Gypsy, A Tale of Two Cities, Cinderella), Ron Bohmer (The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Woman in White, Sunset Blvd), Nora Mae Lyng (Les Miserables, Amour, Cabaret), Gordon Stanley (Beauty and the Beast, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Ragtime), Allison Spratt (Enter Laughing, Cry Baby, Good Vibrations), Billy Wheelan (The Road to Ruin, Our Leading Lady, It’s a Hit!), Lucy Sorensen (Sarah, Plain and Tall, Sympathy Jones, The Tutor), Brian Norris (Forever Plaid), Gretchen Goldsworthy (Cats, Beehive), Catherine Carpenter Cox (Evita, Hello Dolly, The Who’s Tommy) Rita Markova (Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Into the Woods), Susan Lewis (Cats, Swingtime Canteen, The Producers), Adam Halpin(Glory Days, Forever Plaid), Joan Porter (Murderers), Bill Bateman (Gypsy, Hello Dolly, Peter Pan), Doug Shapiro (Talk of the Town, Iron Curtain, The High Life) Amanda Johnson (Sweeney Todd, Oklahoma, Annie), Mary Workman (The Guest Lecturer, Assassins, My Fair Lady)