Opening Night: Fandango For Butterflies (and Coyotes)

Tony Shalhoub, Anne Hamburger and Brooke Adams 

Post-Opening Reception

Silvia Dionicio with the cast and audience members

Jen Anaya (center)

The cast and audience at the post-show fandango

 All photos by Theo Cote

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La MaMa presents

Fandango for Butterflies 

(and Coyotes)

An En Garde Arts Production 

Directed by José Zayas 
Written by Andrea Thome 
Music by Sinuhé Padilla

February 6 - 15, 2020     

Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults, $20 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

New La MaMa Podcast: Albert Poland

In the new episode of the La MaMa Podcast,  La MaMa Director of Audience Development John Issendorf speaks with Albert Poland, whose memoir STAGES looks at his life and 43 year career in NYC theater.

ALBERT POLAND, in his 43 year career in the New York theatre, served as general manager for more than 90 productions including The Homecoming, Talk Radio, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Award, Best Revival), Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Tony Award, Best Revival), and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Dirty Blonde, The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Tony Award, Best Play), The Grapes of Wrath (Tony Award, Best Play), As Is (Drama Desk Award, Best Play), The Price, the original productions of Little Shop of Horrors (Drama Critics, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Best Musical), Steel Magnolias, and One Mo’ Time as well as Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Drama Desk, Best Play), Uta Hagen in Mrs. Klein, Eileen Heckart in The Waverly Gallery, Always Patsy Cline, Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind (Drama Critics, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Best Play), Vanities, David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre, The Neon Woman, Tommy Tune Atop the Village Gate, Let My People Come, Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little and Tom Lehrer’s Tomfoolery. Mr. Poland operated the Astor Place Theatre from 1977 through 2000, during which time it was host to such long runs as A Coupla White Chicks, The Dining Room, The Foreigner, and Blue Man Group. He is the Co-Editor/Author, with Bruce Mailman, of The Off-Off Broadway Book published in 1972 by Bobbs-Merrill. As a performer, he appeared at Carnegie Hall, La Mama, Judson Poets Theater and the Village Gate. Mr. Poland’s first venture in show business was as the founding president of The Official Judy Garland Fan Fan Club in 1955.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

Interview with Andrea Thome of Fandango For Butterflies (and Coyotes)

Playwright Andrea Thome took time out from rehearsals to sit down and talk about her new show, Fandango For Butterflies (and Coyotes) which begins performances on Thursday, February 6, 2020 at The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa.
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La MaMa presents

Fandango for Butterflies 

(and Coyotes)

An En Garde Arts Production 

Directed by José Zayas 
Written by Andrea Thome 
Music by Sinuhé Padilla

February 6 - 15, 2020     

Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults, $20 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

6 Questions for Silvia Dionicio of Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)

Silvia Dionicio is part of the cast of Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes), which begins performances this week in the Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa.  Silvia took time out from rehearsals to answer our 6 Questions.  Come join the Fandango beginning February 6, 2020!  There are only 8 performances at La MaMa, so get your tickets now! 

1. What does the word fandango mean to you?
This is actually my first experience with Fandango! Til the beginning of rehearsals I’d never actually been to one. And as of now I’ve been to 3 and I love them. They are a welcoming, warm, fun and a symbol of cultures. And it’s nice to speak mostly if not completely Spanish for once.

2. How do you describe your role in Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)?
I think my character in this play represents: the “audience” (she’s an “outsider”) she’s never been to a Fandango, she doesn’t really know what it is. Yet she is welcomed with open arms and in a matter of minutes she becomes part of this family! And I think that’s what we are doing! We are opening up to the audience, telling them who we are who Latin Immigrants really are, sharing a little piece of us, our music and our stories.

3. What is the experience of performing in both English and Spanish?
It’s been great to play back and forth with the Spanish and English, in an honest, not forced way! It’s really interesting because rehearsals were the same way, a non stop back and forth of Spanish and English. And it was nothing but heartwarming.

4. How would you describe the music by Sinuhé Padilla in Fandango?
BEAUTIFUL AND HAUNTING! I would literally go home unable to stop singing his lyrics.

5. What have you learned from these stories of undocumented immigrants from Latin America living in New York?
I’ve learned a LOT about how hard the whole process of crossing can be, how scary, how haunting! Is just so shocking and beautiful how far people will go to create a better future for themselves and their family (as well as safety).

6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?
Oh this is definitely an “Acting Goal” from my bucket list! Plus I get to tell a story that is so close to me with such amazing people!

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La MaMa presents

Fandango for Butterflies 

(and Coyotes)

An En Garde Arts Production 

Directed by José Zayas 
Written by Andrea Thome 
Music by Sinuhé Padilla

February 6 - 15, 2020     

Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults, $20 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE