MURDER BALLAD
Conceived by and with book and lyrics by Julia Jordan
Music and lyrics by Juliana Nash

Directed by Jaclyn Lyons
Choreographer: Celeste Vonderschmitt
Music Director: Julie McKay

In a smoky bar, four individuals issue the murder ballad’s warning: with saints and sinners and passion and prerogative, someone has to die. What unfolds is the story of Sara, Tom and Michael, told by a nameless Narrator. Sara and Michael live a comfortable, normal life in New York City, but as their child enters school and Sara discovers a sorrowful restlessness within her, her tragic boredom leads her back to a tumultuous former lover, beginning an affair that will have deadly consequences. “Murder Ballad” is a riveting rock opera that confronts the audience with questions of love, lust, longing, fidelity and, ultimately, murder.

LOCATION
Acting Against Cancer at ArtSpace, 323 W. Broadway, Third Floor, Louisville, KY, 40202

TICKETS
$22 in advance and $24 at the door and are available at actingagainstcancer.com.

SHOWTIMES:
Friday, March 20, 8PM
Saturday, March 21, 8PM
Sunday, March 22, 5:30PM
Monday, March 23, 8PM
Thursday, March 26, 8PM
Friday, March 27, 8PM
Saturday, March 28, 8PM

FEATURING:
Jessica Adamson, Andrew Newton, Landon Sholar and Myranda Thomas

ABOUT ACTING AGAINST CANCER:
Acting Against Cancer is a semiprofessional nonprofit theatre company that strives to encourage the arts as an approach to pediatric cancer treatment by producing dynamic theatre in the Louisville community.

In the past, Acting Against Cancer has donated to Gilda’s Club Louisville, the hematology/oncology clinic and art therapy program of Norton Children’s Hospital, Ellie Cat’s Crew and others.

The company has performed around Louisville with past shows including Next to Normal, The Addams Family, Green Day’s American Idiot (regional premiere), The Last Five Years, Legally Blonde, Heathers the Musical, tick tick...BOOM!, The Wedding Singer, Rock of Ages (regional premiere), Carrie the Musical, Mamma Mia!, Dogfight (regional premiere), Pippin in collaboration with CirqueLouis and American Psycho (regional premiere). As of 2014, the company now annually produces The Rocky Horror Show every October.

In addition to the mainstage shows, Acting Against Cancer also conducts after school programs, which not only serve as creative outlets for children and an opportunity for theatre instruction but also further Acting Against Cancer’s commitment to providing art therapy – specifically drama therapy – to children affected by cancer.

More information on Acting Against Cancer’s mainstage season and after school programs is available at actingagainstcancer.com, where you may also make a donation of any amount.