{"id":309064,"date":"2026-07-29T19:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309064\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:53:17","slug":"mae-west-musical-come-up-and-see-me-sometime-plans-nyc-industry-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309064\/","title":{"rendered":"Mae West Musical Come Up and See Me Sometime Plans NYC Industry Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"

DM &\u00a0Co Productions will host industry presentations of a new Mae West-focused musical titled\u00a0Come Up and See Me Sometime:\u00a0Return of the Notorious M.A.E. July 30-31 at Sunlight Studios. The project, conceived by Don Mongitore, features a book by Mongitore and Kevin Smith Kirkwood<\/a>, with Kirkwood directing the upcoming performances.<\/p>\n

The project uses three actors to play the iconic performer at three eras of her life and career, tracking West on her journey from vaudeville to becoming a playwright, Hollywood superstar, and landmark cultural icon. Mongitore and Kirkwood’s book is set to a soundtrack of songs made famous by West, alongside original material by Kirkwood and music supervisor-arranger Drew Wutke.<\/p>\n

The upcoming presentations will feature Natalie Joy Johnson<\/a> (Lempicka<\/a>), Carla R. Stewart<\/a> (Tina:\u00a0The Tina Turner Musical)\u00a0and Petralina Rae (Women on Fire)\u00a0as West. The cast will also include\u00a0Eric Chambliss<\/a>, Michael Di Liberto<\/a>, Kerry Flanagan, Gillian Han, Kira Sarai Helper, Mariah Lyttle<\/a>, Sean Michael McGee, Sean Steele, and Melvin Tunstall<\/a>. Casting is by Darienne Orlansky.<\/p>\n

The project’s creative team includes choreographer Julie O’Connell, dramaturg Zo\u00eb Elizabeth Lillis, production stage manager Celina Revollar, and general manager Evan Bernardin Productions. The upcoming presentations will feature stage directions read by Yves Allen with\u00a0Shawn Dustin on drums.<\/p>\n

Industry members interested in attending should email\u00a0[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DM &\u00a0Co Productions will host industry presentations of a new Mae West-focused musical titled\u00a0Come Up and See Me…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-309064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}