First Priority Club - December 2018

MEET THE CAST HOLIDAY CLOSING: Mint's Offices will be closed from December 24 through January 2. We'll be stopping in to open the mail, but we won't be available to take your phone calls. Don't worry, there will be plenty of good tickets still available when we return on January 2nd.

Donald Corren

Andrew Fallaize

Emma Geer

Josh Goulding*

Mitch Greenberg

Nick LaMedica

Jay Russell

Tracy Sallows

Happy New Year!

The Price of Thomas Scott

by Elizabeth Baker Directed by Jonathan Bank The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd Street) January 24 through March 23 Tue - Sat 7:30PM Sat & Sun 2:00PM Wed 2:00PM: 2/6, 2/13, & 3/20 No perf: 2/5 7:30PM

Further Reading:

Mark Kenneth Smaltz

MINT ALUMNI:

Edith and Miss Tassey Two Short Plays

By Elizabeth Baker

Ayana Workman

Arielle Yoder

Recognize some of these faces?

We are delighted to welcome back three Mint alumni to the cast of The Price of Thomas Scott!

Sunday, March 3, 7:00PM Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd St)

Call the FPC Hotline at: 212.315.0231

Andrew Fallaize The Lucky One

Emma Geer Hindle Wakes

Mitch Greenberg Donogoo

For more information or to purchase tickets, call: 212.315.0231 *Josh Goulding is appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association.

UPCOMING

ENRICH

EVENTS

All events take place immediately after the performance, usually last about fifty minutes, and they are free and open to the public. Speakers and dates subject to change without notice. Seeing the show at another performance? Feel free to join us for any of our talks. Call to get an update on the show’s running time and; we’ll tell you when to be at the theater.

Post-Show Discussion: SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 after the matinee “DO YOU REALLY WANT TO GO AWAY?” ELIZABETH BAKER - HER LIFE AND WORK Maya Cantu, Bennington College Maya Cantu is on the Drama Faculty at Bennington and Dramaturgical Advisor to the Mint. She received a D.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama. Her book American Cinderellas on the Broadway Stage: Imagining the Working Girl from “Irene” to “Gypsy” is now available through Palgrave Macmillan.

Post-Show Discussion: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 after the matinee “WHERE’S THE NONCONFORMIST CONSCIENCE?” NONCONFORMISTS AND LIBERAL POLITICS George Robb William Patterson University Professor Robb will talk about Nonconformists (or Protestants) at the turn of the last century in England. Robb received his PhD in History from Northwestern University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom. His most recent books are British Culture and the First World War (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015) and Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression (University of Illinois Press, 2017).

Post-Show Discussion: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 after the matinee “I FORGOT, YOU USED TO BE A PURITAN, TOM.” THOMAS SCOTT’S BELIEFS J. Patrick Hornbeck Chair and Professor of Theology, Fordham University Hornbeck teaches and writes on the history of Christianity, on religion in the contemporary U.S., and on the relationship of religion and law. A frequent commentator in the national press, Hornbeck is author or editor of eight books, including most recently Remembering Wolsey (Fordham University Press). He holds graduate degrees from the University of Oxford and attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate.

Post-Show Discussion: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 after the matinee “TIMES HAVE CHANGED” THOMAS SCOTT’S LONDON Judith Walkowitz John Hopkins University (Emeritus) For more than three decades, Walkowitz, a British historian, has concentrated her research and writing on nineteenthcentury political culture and the cultural and social contests over sexuality. Her latest book, Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London extends her interest in the cultural and social history of London to mid-twentieth century.

Tickets on sale now, call 212.315.0231 for your FPC tickets.

HOW MANY SHOWS DO YOU RECOGNIZE ABOVE? (ANSWERS BELOW)

EDITH and MISS TASSEY

Two short plays by Elizabeth Baker

Sunday, March 3 7:00PM in the Beckett Theatre

Meet Miss Baker is an ambitious series of productions and readings designed to introduce audiences to the remarkable work of the English playwright Elizabeth Baker (1876-1962) who burst onto the scene in 1909 ascending from “obscure stenographer making five dollars a week” to “one of the most widely discussed playwrights in London” (The Christian Science Monitor).

Our two-year project will culminate in the publication of ELIZABETH BAKER RECLAIMED, coinciding with two simultaneous Baker productions, side by side in two theaters at Theatre Row, in the summer of 2020. Our first Elizabeth Baker Further Reading will feature two short plays about working women, both written around the same time as The Price of Thomas Scott.

Miss Tassey and Edith are both short plays about working women, representing opposite ends of the spectrum. In Edith, we meet a remarkable successful business woman, who astonishes her family with her capacity, acumen and accomplishment. Miss Tassey is a less happy tale, about a store clerk and the women she shares a room with, back in the day when workers in England “lived-in.”

Special Thanks to The Royal Little Family Foundation for their generous two-year leadership grant in support of Meet Miss Baker.

For more information or to reserve your place, call 212.315.0231.

Please take a moment now to renew your membership in Mint’s First Priority Club when your order your tickets to The Price of Thomas Scott. We’ll extend your membership by any months left over from your current membership, when you renew.

Answers to the Holiday challenge above: H - The Lucky One. A - So Help Me God. P - Mary Broome. P - Fashions for Men. Y - A Day by the Sea. H - Katie Roche. O - Women Without Men. L - The Suitcase Under the Bed. I - The Fatal Weakness. D - Yours Unfaithfully. A - The New Morality. Y - London Wall. S - Love Goes to Press.

Dear Friend, Thank you for supporting the Mint! This newsletter goes to our most loyal supporters, the members of our First Priority Club. Your generosity is truly sustaining. And your generosity of spirit and of attention are just as important as your gifts. Yes, of course we could not possibly survive without your gifts, but knowing that you care matters too.

The other day I was at the Library for the Performing Arts. (I know, it sounds like I’m making that up to impress you, but I really was there, in their little café, meeting a friend.) Someone came over to me with a flyer for The Price of Thomas Scott in his hand; he gestured back to the table where he was sitting with two friends, and he told me that they were all studying up on our next play. Maybe he was just trying to make me feel good—but even that is meaningful because he succeeded!

Thank you for caring about our work, for supporting our work, and for making our work really mean something.

My best wishes to you and yours. I look forward to seeing you at the theater (or in the library) in 2019.

FIRST PRIORITY CLUB NEWS Coming Soon!

The Price of Thomas Scott

by Elizabeth Baker Directed by Jonathan Bank The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd Street) January 24 through March 23 Tue - Sat 7:30PM Sat & Sun 2:00PM Wed 2:00PM: 2/6, 2/13, & 3/20 No performance: 2/5 7:30PM Further Reading: Edith and Miss Tassey Two short plays by Elizabeth Baker Sunday, March 3 7:00PM

Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year!

Jonathan Bank

from your friends at Mint Theater

Happy Holidays! www.minttheater.org 212.315.0231 330 West 42nd Street Suite 1210 New York, NY 10036