Woburn resident David Kimmelman rocks the Arsenal Stage in A...My Name is Alice" musical with Wellesley Players

The Wellesley Players are currently in rehearsal for their Fall musical, A…My Name Is Alice. The Play features both new faces and seasoned Wellesley Players in this Outer Critics’ Award winner for Best Musical. Currently in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, the Players will present A…My Name Is Alice at the Black Box Theatre November 7-16, 2014. Tickets are now on sale. The Black Box Theatre is an intimate space - a perfect environment for exploring this funny, heartfelt, timeless, universally appealing musical. Please purchase tickets early. This is a must see musical this season!

A… My Name is Alice presents a kaleidoscope of contemporary women in hilarious, insightful, empathetic and at times profound experiences. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you might even learn a little something more about the women in your life. The New York Times called it “Delightful and so sophisticated…the [creators] would rather tickle a male chauvinist pig to death than hack him to pieces.”

Woburn resident David Kimmelman is cast as the token male in this ensemble musical featuring eight women. David has worked with The Wellesley Players many in the past, appearing as Tevye, the milkman, in Fiddler on the Roof about five years ago. He comes to A… My Name is Alice as the lone male who gets to play three different roles. “Well that’s something that is always a great deal of fun.”

About A… My Name is Alice, David says that he may not identify personally with the roles he plays in the show, however “working with a few of the ladies in the cast whom I know was a huge attraction for me.”

Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd conceived A… My Name is Alice as a sequence of clever and serious songs, monologues and sketches depicting the trials and tribulations of living as a woman. This bright and lively revue was created by a wide variety of comedy writers including actress Anne Meara as well as lyricists and composers such as David Zippel and Lucy Simon.

Put on your heels, grab your cell phones and rally with your BFFs for a night out to meet the women of A… My Name is Alice. Performances: Nov 7-9 and 13-16, 2014. Performances will be at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, Black Box Theatre. Tickets are now available. www.ticketstage.com/WP. Reserve your seat early!

Photo: The female ensemble of A...My Name is Alice. Photo Credit: Jon Sachs

Front: Sun-Mee Kasper
l-r Middle Row: Kelly Murphy, Jennifer Bubriski
l-r Back Row: Melissa Bisso, Regine Vitale, Kathleen Dalton, Jennifer Shotkin, Lara Simpson