“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

Nanette Michele

Tracey Petrillo

Tara Siesener

Carolyn Ockert

Cameron Adams

Pam Bradley

Jessica Sheridan

Liz Raccaneli

Michele Cavallero

Maria Totten

Laquet Sharnell

Nick Kepley

Kathy Calahan

Amber Owens

Patrick John Moran

Natahlie Paulding

Aaron Kaburick

Justin Greer

Andrew Hodge

Laura Schutter

Melissa Lone

Sarah Hutchison

Joe Komara

Rebecca Magazine

Kasey Huizinga

Nina Ordman

Maire-Rose Pike

Kerstin Porter

Natalie Oritz

Katie Anne Unger

Nikki Ghisel

Dawn Rene Fowler

Jessica Wu

Leigh Vaynberg

Directed and Choreographed by Josh Prince

Associate Choreographer, Sloan Just

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 don’t).

Also be sure to check out some of our rehearsal footage below!

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 project that kicks off tomorrow.

At 6 p.m. in the atrium of the Time Warner Center — stand on the second or third floor for the best view — 45 “shoppers” will hoof it to the (recorded) strains of “If My Friends Could See Me Now.”

Can’t see them then? More Break Outs are planned Friday and Saturday, at the South Street Seaport and the Intrepid flight deck. The dancers are the same; only the show tunes will change. Talk about budget Broadway!

Thank YouTube, where another bout of choreographed “spontaneity” — commuters and passers-by gyrating to “Do Re Mi” at a train station in Antwerp — generated millions of hits and galvanized one man in particular: Ryan Mackey, the 31-year-old force behind New York’s Break Out.

“This is the idea I had forever,” says the former assistant director for Broadway’s “The Boy From Oz,” who says he cashed in his 401(k) to pay for the musical rights and the choreographers. (It helps, he says, to have a boyfriend in copyright law — and the performers are working for free.)

Not everything panned out as he’d hoped.

“I wanted to do ‘Seventy-Six Trombones’ in Times Square with the Brooklyn Steppers marching band, but I couldn’t get the rights,” he says.

Nor was he able to persuade the Top of the Rock to open its doors to “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.”

Nevertheless, he’s hopeful — some corporate sponsors might come calling and pay for Break Outs of their own.

In the meantime, there’s always YouTube.

For more info, visit

www.breakoutinsong.com.