Awesome 80's Prom A Very Awesome Production The Awesome 80s Prom is an interactive off-Broadway play brought to you in a nostalgic brand new blast-from-the-past party in the style of Tony 'n Tina's Wedding and The Donkey Show set at Wanaget High's Senior Prom in 1989! Think Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, The Brat Pack. The cast of fabulous characters are reminiscent from your favorite '80s prom flicks from the dashing captain of the football team to the Asian exchange student, to the high school nerd to the sexy mini skirt head cheerleader, and they're all competing for Prom King and Queen. The audience cast their votes and decides who wins while dancing the night away to retro hits like Cindi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go!" Come "Back In Time", to quote a Huey Lewis tune.
Put on your best prom dress, tux and start breakdancing or just sit back and enjoy this splendid interactive Off Broadway '80s production. Awesome 80s Prom has been featured on WNBC'S Weekend Today Show, CBS's The Early Show, Fox 5 News and Fuji Television as well as in The New York Times, The NY Daily News, New York Magazine, and Playgirl. Author and Director Ken Davenport decided to have a career in show business early on in his life when he wore red suede pumas, a black leather tie and used to breakdance on official "Beat Street" cardboard purchased at KB Toy & Hobby. Ken graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He pursued a career in acting which included a role in Forever Plaid performing for the former President Bush. He also worked behind the scenes with staff positions on the Broadway revivals of My Fair Lady with Richard Chamberlain and Grease with Rosie O'Donnell. Ken has had the distinct pleasure of Company Managing and/or General Managing Gypsy starring Broadway Actress Bernadette Peters and Thoroughly Modern Millie, as well as the road companies of Jekyll & Hyde, Chicago (National Tour and Las Vegas) and Cinderella starring Deborah Gibson and Jamie Lynn DiScala and legendary Diva Miss Eartha Kitt. Ken was the Director of Creative Development for NETworks and has also produced and directed several workshops, readings and regional productions, including several companies of Forever Plaid, a reading of Is There Life After High School? and an original musical that he wrote, entitled Prime Time. Recently hailed as the “P.T. Barnum of Off-Broadway” in the New York Times and featured on a national commercial for the iPhone, Ken is the only independent producer to have three shows running simultaneously Off-Broadway: ALTAR BOYZ, THE AWESOME 80S PROM and MY FIRST TIME which he revealed in our interview "It can be a challenge." Ken is responsible for establishing Davenport Theatrical Enterprises in 2002, an independent theatrical production, development and consulting company based in New York City. DTE develops, produces, and manages theatrical productions on and Off-Broadway, on national tours, and around the world. With its in-house marketing and management teams and its unique style of combining traditional business models with modern marketing, DTE offers its productions hands-on expertise that allows for creativity in not only the development of its productions, but also in their promotion. What's new for Ken Davenport? Ken is also developing a Broadway musical adapted from the classic romantic flick, Somewhere In Time, as well as a documentary style theater piece in the tradition of The Vagina Monologues called My First Time: True Stories of Love and Sex Submitted Online By People Just Like You (www.myfirsttimelive.com). For more information visit www.davenporttheatrical.com. I also had the chance to interview Actor Scott Sussman who portrays DJ JOHNNY HUGHES in the production. Scott is an experienced actor, stand-up comedian, and professional events entertainer with the Awesome 80’s Prom. His recent stand-up appearances include Caroline’s on Broadway, Gotham Comedy Club, Laugh Factory, NY Improv, and Therapy Bar. Recent theatre credits include Tony in the 50th Anniversary production of West Side Story at the Fulton Theatre, Les Miserables at the Pioneer Theatre Company, Jesus Christ Superstar at North Shore Music Theatre, and Ragtime at the Papermill Playhouse.
Born into a musical family, Scott was raised in Long Island, New York. His grandmother, Diane Sussman, and his father, Stanley Sussman, were both entertainers and loved to sing and perform. In our interview he mentioned that he was destined for showbusiness after receiving his first gift, a microphone. For more information, schedule of upcoming appearances, or just to say "What you talkin' about Willis," visit Scott on myspace at www.myspace.com/scottsussman or his official website www.scottsussmanlive.com. Until my next Celebrity Gossip Darlings Pink Champagne Kisses E-mail This Page | Talk About It | Return to My Column
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