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For Immediate Release:

Listings under: Theater, Performing Arts, Late Night, Musicals, Comedy

For more information and press comp tickets

Contact: National Pastime Theater 773-327-7077

or Naughty Productions 773-443-9621

OPENING DATE CHANGED ONCE MORE FOR

 the Chicago premiere of:

"NAUGHTY!"

The Musical World of Emmet Taylor Farkas

(WINNER of the Director’s Choice Award,

2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival)

Music and Lyrics by Book by Leo Schwartz Jeremy Kareken

Additional Material by Leo Schwartz

Directed by Shifra Werch

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the opening of “Naughty” has been changed to Friday, March 25 and now running to April 23. Performances will be Fridays and Saturdays at 10pm.

WHERE: National Pastime Theater 4139 N. Broadway, Chicago

TICKETS: $20.00 Tickets can be purchased online at www.npt2.com or by calling

the box office of the National Pastime Theater at 773‐327‐7077.

THE STORY: Farkas: Money Manager, Attorney, Composer…DEAD! 4 actors try to

bilk production funds out of a captive audience at a funeral, while performing a

showcase of 42 roles from 7 outrageous musicals from this unknown yet irreverently

prolific composer. These musicals run the gamut: Helen Keller sings! Peter Rabbit

curses. Beaver Cleaver comes out of the closet. A blues singer leaves her thalidomide

lover for a double amputee. It’s just that type of show!

Leo Schwartz (composer, lyricist, & bookwriter) is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music

and a member of ASCAP. He composes for film, theatre, jazz, and the concert hall. His musical

Me and Al has been presented both Off-Broadway and as part of the Global Search for New

Musicals at the International Festival of Musical Theatre in Cardiff, Wales. His musical

NAUGHTY! won Director’s Choice at the 2007 NYMF. For more information and samples of

his work go to www.leoschwartz.com.

Jeremy Kareken (bookwriter) is a writer, actor, and the researcher for Inside the Actors Studio.

He has won fellowships to the William Inge Center for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers Workshop

and the Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters' Conference. He is a member of the

EST Playwrights Unit and the Actors Studio. He teaches writing at NYU's School for Continuing

and Professional Studies.