'Love Wins' In This Fair Lawn Broadway Musical Adaptation

FAIR LAWN, NJ — Hailed by New York Magazine as "smart and big-hearted", the award-winning Broadway musical The Prom is opening at a Fair Lawn performing arts theater.

The Prom, which tells the story of four fading Broadway stars who are in desperate need of a new stage, will be presented by Old Library Theatre — Fair Lawn Recreation Department's resident theatre company — over the next two weekends, a release said.

Directed and choreographed by Eliah James Furlong, The Prom will open at the George Frey Center for Performing Arts on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

"I promise you do not want to miss this show," director Furlong said. "Each and everyone in this cast and creative team's unruly hearts align with the themes of this show — acceptance, equality, love and understanding just to name a few."

Producer Armanda Cerqueira added: "The message of this musical is so important and the commitment from this cast and creative team has been visible every step of the way. I'm so privileged to be working with them all."

This "hilarious and moving journey of culture shock and learning," the release said, was declared by The New York Times to "make you believe in musical comedy again."

The Prom, the release said, stars Cat Gallagher as a high school student banned from her prom; Sherry Mayce as her girlfriend; Jeff Parsons and Melissa Broder as two grandiose Broadway performers recovering from terrible reviews of their latest show; Michelle Ward as a sassy Broadway dancer, Tim White as a graduate of the Julliard Drama School and part-time waiter; and Caitlin Rose Jurewicz as a put-upon press agent who has to clean up their mess.

A synopsis of the show in the release said that "Broadway's brassiest" are joining a fight against conservative parents in small-town Indiana who want to keep a student from bringing her girlfriend to prom.

“When folks identify with the conflict of a story, it makes their motivation to show the resolution that much greater," producer Cerqueira said. "This lovely cast is coming together to dance and sing in celebration because love always wins."

Tickets are available now - https://our.show/olt/prom.