Westminster Conservatory’s The Actors Company will present Starting Here, Starting Now on Friday, September 15 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, September 16 at 3 and 8 p.m. at The Producer’s Club (Grand Theatre), 358 West 44th Street, in New York.  Russell Fischer, Kareen Foster and Carly Voigt are appearing in the production, featuring Peter Wright, music director and accompanist.  The director is Nathan Brewer.

This classic musical revue from the beloved team of Maltby and Shire explores the themes of young love and growing up.  Noted for its “passion and intensity” by The Princeton Packet, The Actors Company is the resident theater company of Westminster Conservatory, the community music school of Westminster Choir College.  It has produced more than a dozen productions at Westminster, Princeton University, and at venues in New York City and Philadelphia.  The company offers classes in improvisation, musical theater, Broadway dance, and acting for children and adults.

Director Nathan Brewer is the founder and artistic director of The Actors Company.  At Westminster, he has directed 18 productions and has taught over 300 students through the Conservatory, continuing education and The Actors Company programs.  He is also director of the Cherub, Youth, and Gallery Choirs at Liberty Corner Church and travels the country as a director and teacher.

Russell Fischer, has appeared in regional productions at the Papermill Playhouse and the Chautauqua Opera, and was the lead in the national touring company of Big – The Musical.  Kareen Foster has appeared in several Westminster productions and completed the Professional Music Theater Workshop this summer.  Carly Voigt has appeared in nine productions between The Actors Company and Westminster music theater.  Peter Wright was at the keyboard for five musical comedy productions at Princeton’s McCarter Theater and for 10 years he was the pianist for the Inn Cabaret, a semi-professional group of performers who entertained frequently at the Nassau Inn in Princeton, spent a week at the George Street Theater in New Brunswick and went as far afield as Vail, Colo.

The Producer’s Club (Grand Theatre) is located on the south side of West 44th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues.  The closest subway is the A, C or E train to 42nd Street, exit at 44th Street and walk west to the theatre.  For tickets or to receive Westminster’s 2006-2007 season catalog, call the box office at 609 921-2663 weekdays between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. 

Starting Here, Starting Now was first produced at the Barbarann Theatre Restaurant in New York City by Steve Abrams, Mary Jo Slater, Scott Mansfield and Morton Schwartz.  These performances are presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).