July 2009
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Jul 22nd
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CBS News.com report on BREAK OUT IN SONG
NEW YORK, July 20, 2009 If Life Were Like a Broadway Musical “Break Out in Song” Brings Surprise Dance Numbers to New York Landmarks. (CBS) This story was reported by CBSNews.com’s Gina Pace and Ken Lombardi Play CBS VideoVIDEOBroadway SurpriseOnly On The Web: What, at first, appeared as a scuffle on the streets of Time Square in fact emerged as a surprise song and dance routine by the...
Jul 21st
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CBS News.com video features BREAK OUT IN SONG.
Jul 21st
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Thanks, thanks, and ever thanks!
We cannot thank our performers, directors/choreographers, crew, supporters, families, friends, the venues and New York City enough. BREAK OUT IN SONG was a great success and we couldn’t have done it without you. We look forward to bringing a little bit of Broadway magic to you again very soon. Our videos will be up shortly and they’ll be just as good as the performances. So please be...
Jul 20th
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"Consider Yourself" Cast
A great big hand for the amazing cast of “Consider Yourself”, who blew Times Square away with their wonderful performance. Heck, we were even able to get the NYPD involved in the action (which was unplanned): Leslie McDonel (Vocal and lead performer) Theis Weckesser (Featured performer) Kyle Pleasant (Featured performer) The NYPD Jolynn Baca Ellen Zolezzi Andrea Davey Susan...
Jul 20th
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"Anything Goes" Cast
We hope the Intrepid Museum got a kick out of our rousing rendition of “Anything Goes”, complete with a cast of over 100 —including 30+ dancing children, and one adorable little red head! Katie Thompson (Vocals and lead performer) Tyler O’Daniels (featured performer) Christina Zanardi Julianne Bozzo Ashley Salerno Aly Winegrad Lauren Zwang Taylor Blonder Sydney...
Jul 18th
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NY Times covers BREAK OUT IN SONG!
New York Times - City Room Blog For Dance, 10. For Spontaneity? You Decide. By LIBBY NELSON The scene: The Shops at Columbus Circle in Time Warner Center at the end of a weekday. The audience members: Shoppers and office workers, gathered around the balconies, waiting. Then it happened: a musical number broke out, as dancers clutching small shopping bags came up the escalators and, reaching...
Jul 17th
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"Don't Rain on My Parade" Cast
Wow! If you weren’t at South Street Seaport today, you missed something truly spectacular. Another wonderful performance and it’s all thanks to this talented cast: Jessica Lea Patty (Vocals and lead performer) Cody Smith James Tabeek Jason Lacayo Michael Scirroto Jacob Widman Jessica Wu Lindsay Chambers Vicki Cave Taryn Molnar Angela Kahle Jermaine Miles Caleb Teicher ...
Jul 17th
Time Out NY has a bit more coverage on BREAK OUT...
Posted in Upstaged by Adam Feldman on July 17th, 2009 at 4:45 pm Two days ago we told you about Break Out in Song, a fun project that aims to surprise New Yorkers with public explosions of musical theater. Yesterday, the Time Warner Center was the site of the first of the week’s four planned numbers: Sweet Charity’s “If My Friends Could See Me Now.” TONY designer Marc Whalen, a friend...
Jul 17th
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NY POST covers BREAK OUT IN SONG’s performance of “If My Friends Could See Me Now” at the Time Warner Center.
Jul 17th
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"If My Friends Could See Me Now" cast
A great BIG THANK YOU! to the cast of “If My Friends Could See Me Now”. We had tons of people and lots of press, and had a blast blowing the socks off the Time Warner Center.  The video is in the works, but here’s the cast list for those of you not in the loop: Heather Jane Rolff (Vocals and lead performer) Tia Marie Zorne Leasen Almquist Katherine Schickert Elena Gronlund ...
Jul 17th
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Extra! Extra! Hey, look at the headlines!
BREAK OUT IN SONG launches today! And here’s when and where it’ll take place: PERFORMANCE TIMES TONIGHT - Time Warner Center, 6pm 7/17/09 - South Street Seaport (Fulton and Front Street), 5:45pm 7/18/09 - Intrepid, 3pm 7/19/09 - Times Square (in front of the Marquis), 1pm Arrive early. And please don’t ruin the surprise for those who may not know (assume people...
Jul 16th
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NY Press interviews Ryan (BREAK OUT's producer)
Breaking Out! Guerilla Musical Numbers Take Manhattan In Section: NY comPRESSed »Posted By: Will AldenRyan Mackey had a dream, and today it’s coming true. His theater group, Break Out in Song, is staging its first performance, a large-scale pseudo-spontaneous dance number at Time Warner Center. Think of it as street performance with Broadway choreographers, hours of rehearsal and hundreds of...
Jul 16th
Time Out NY's ditty on BREAK OUT IN SONG
Posted in Upstaged by Adam Feldman on July 15th, 2009 at 5:37 pm Have you ever imagined what it might be like to live in a musical-theater world, where ordinary people broke out into song on the street, backed up by passersby who happened to fall into tightly choreographed dance routines? This week, aspiring producer Ryan H. Mackey wants to gives you that experience via an ambitious...
Jul 16th
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Our NY POST story!
ALL JAZZ HANDS ON DECK By BARBARA HOFFMAN The Antwerp train station filled with “Do Re Mi” from “The Sound of Music.” July 15, 2009 YOU’RE standing there, on the street or in a store, when suddenly there’s music — and everyone drops their bags to sing and dance. No, it’s not your Prozac speaking. It’s Break Out in Song, a public-works...
Jul 15th
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Choreographer Josh Prince works with his Broadway crew as they learn the original moves to If They Could See Me Now. It will be performed live at the Time Warner Center on Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 6PM.
Jul 15th
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Choreographer Josh Walden puts these performers through their paces as they learn and brilliantly execute these original steps to Oliver’s Consider Yourself to be performed in Times Square Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 1PM.
Jul 15th
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Choreographer Jessica Hartman and Associate Choreographer Jonathan Day work with performers on the upcoming NYC flashmob performance which will be performed at the South Street Seaport on Friday, July 17th at 5:30PM.
Jul 15th
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“Consider Yourself” 2nd rehearsal (we weren’t able to tape the 1st). Amazing work by the entire cast and Josh Walden, our choreographer.
Jul 12th
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The cast pulled the entire number together in one rehearsal, thanks to  Josh Prince (choreographer) and Sloan Just (associate choreographer).
Jul 12th
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Footage, as promised (though very brief). Hey, we don’t want to spoil it. More tomorrow.
Jul 10th
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A five, six, seven, eight!
Dance belt? Check. Leotard and leg warmers? Check. Tube of chapstick? Check. Stretching? Done did it. [Cue music] Rehearsals begin today! And we will have some footage later this evening. 
Jul 10th
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There's always a first time.
Ryan (our lovely producer) just finished his very first interview with the New York Post. Let’s all give him a great big round of applause! [clap, clap, clap] And what’s this we hear? The NY Times is next? Stay tuned.
Jul 9th
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Special Thanks
Thanks to the following people for their donations and support: Joe McFadden Caroline Wycislak David Berlin Arthur Klebanoff Erica Shula and Noreen Chrissey Art Meets Commerce Albert Kim David Cerda Patrick Pearsall Patricia Cassidy Terry Schnuck Stephanie Hartman Ken Davenport Denise Felton Kate Mackey-Francisco Johann Shudlick Patrick Catullo Jibril Younes Tracy Goss Anne and...
Jul 9th
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Bios
Crew: Josh Prince, Choreographer “If My Friends Could See Me Now” Broadway: Shrek, The Musical.  New York City:  The Bridge Project (BAM/The Old Vic, dir. Sam Mendes); The Jerry Springer Opera (starring Harvey Keitel) at Carnegie Hall; and Camelot(starring Gabriel Byrne) with the NY Philharmonic at Lincoln Center (Televised on PBS).  Josh has also had the pleasure of choreographing...
Jul 8th
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