“Salvage” A Play with Music – Discussion about Theatre with the Playwright, the Director, the Actors

“Salvage” A Play with Music – A Discussion about Theatre with the Playwright, the Director, and the Actors

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Award Winning Theatre & Songwriters Play “Salvage” Returns to Los Angeles for Revival Run

“Salvage”
Book by Tim Alderson
Music and Lyrics by Mark Heard, Pat Terry, Randy VanWarmer, Tim Alderson
8pm Friday and Saturdays, 3pm on Sundays through November 14th

Having a dream is like running with scissors. Harley, a singer-songwriter whose wife is expecting their first child, has decided to hang up his dream before it destroys his family. On the way to pawn his guitar, he stumbles across the bar where his musical hero, Floyd Whitaker, died. Upon entering, he finds an inhospitable bartender and a single surly customer who’s strumming the blues on an old guitar. How could he resist an adventure like this?

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Cast:

David Atkinson* (Bright Star - First Nat’l Tour, Billy Elliot - La Mirada, The Trails - NYMF world premiere, TV/Film: American Horror Story, Snowfall, Scandal, “The Devil All the Time,” “All I Wish,” “American Made,” and “Hillbilly Elegy” directed by Ron Howard) as Preacher.

Leonard Earl Howze* (Bono in August Wilson’s Fences, TV/Film: CBS Kevin Can Wait; series regular TNT's Memphis Beat, guest star Shameless, Netflix The True Memoirs of an International Assassin, Live Cargo, “Antwone Fisher,” “The Ringer,” “The Lone Ranger” and “Faults”) as Johnson.

Natalie Llerena (Helen Hayes Award recipient 2x’s with Washington, DC’s Synetic, Broadway’s American Airlines Theater with the 24 Plays on Broadway; Road Theatre: Nowhere on the Border, Death House (Alternate Cast); Los Angeles Starry: A Vincent Van Gogh Musical at The Rockwell, The Madres at Skylight Theater) as Destiny.

Sam O’Byrne (The Death of Hayden Waverly - Ars Nova ANT Fest, “A Normal Life” feature film) as Harley.

Songwriters include Mark Heard (his work covered by Joan Baez, The Call, Bruce Cockburn, and Buddy Miller whose recording of Mark’s song “Worry Too Much” won the Americana Music Award for “Song of the Year” in 2005. He’s part of Macon Georgia‘s musical legacy that includes Little Richard, Otis Redding, and the Allman Brothers Band); Pat Terry (responsible for some of the biggest hits on Country radio having penned chart-toppers for artists Travis Tritt, Tanya Tucker, Sammy Kershaw, Kenny Chesney, and Alan Jackson); Randy VanWarmer (pop hit, "Just When I Needed You Most.” He penned other chart toppers such as, “I’m in a Hurry and I Don’t Why” for Alabama, “I Guess it Never Hurts to Hurt Sometimes” for the Oak Ridge Boys, and songs for Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, and Dolly Parton).

Tim Alderson (Book/Music/Lyrics) is an award-winning writer and a fifth-generation farmer. He grew up working in the fields of Central California to a soundtrack of local artists like Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Credence Clearwater Revival. As a young man he moved to Los Angeles where he spent most of his time in nightclubs and recording studios, working in the music business with acts who were at the beginning or a crossroad in their careers. He knows something about having a dream and finding the courage to follow it, which he did in the music business and in agriculture,.

“Weighing dreams and aspirations against responsibilities and obligations can be paralyzing,” offers playwright Tim Alderson. “Each of the characters in ‘Salvage’ is struggling with this on some level. The words they exchange, whether encouragement or reproach, are meant as much for themselves as for anyone else.”

Calendar Information:
Run time 90 minutes (no intermission)

DESCRIPTION:
Having a dream is like running with scissors. Harley, a singer-songwriter whose wife is expecting their first child, has decided to hang up his dream before it destroys his family. On his way to pawn his guitar, he stumbles across the bar where his musical hero, Floyd Whitaker, died. Upon entering, he finds an inhospitable bartender and a single, surly customer, who’s strumming the blues on an old guitar. How could he resist an adventure like this?


What:
“Salvage”
Book by Tim Alderson
Music and Lyrics by Mark Heard, Pat Terry, Randy VanWarmer
Directed by Damian D. Lewis
Musical Direction: Colin Linden
Produced by Racquel Lehrman, Theatre Planners
Actors: David Atkinson, Leonard Earl Howze, Natalie Llerena, Sam O’Byrne

Where:
The Hudson Theatre
6539 Santa Monica Blvd
Hollywood, 90038
Ample street parking

When:
Schedule: 8pm Fridays & Saturdays, 3pm on Sundays
Closing: November 14, 2021

Tickets: $35

How:
For reservations and information: www.Onstage411.com/Salvage
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No late seating. Everyone must present proof of FULL VACCINATION against COVID-19 along with a government-issued photo ID in order to attend. Face masks are required to be worn indoors at all times. Tickets are $35. Reservations and information www.Onstage411.com/Salvage