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In PRETTY FACES, The "other girl next door" finds fame and glamour at a beauty pageant for plus-sized women in this backstage musical that takes place on and off stage at the fictitious Miss Global Glamour Beauty Pageant." There is a strong sense of camaraderie and healthy competition as the contestants share the wonder and novelty of being "Glamour Girls" for the first time in their lives. The audience is the Antagonist They watch and follow each contestant's Cinderella trans-formation, from day one of rehearsals to the crowning moment of truth. Complete with two feuding stars, a love-struck stage manager, a baton-twirling Southern belle, and a spoiled rich girl. The result is a wickedly funny, yet strikingly poignant work. WHAT THE CRITICS SAY ABOUT PRETTY FACES an involving plotline, and an infectious score. It appears to be poised to become a theatrical staple on the regional circuit, la "Nunsense." Elias Stimac - BACKSTAGE "It's an oddball premise, a show about a 'Global Glamour Girl' beauty pageant in Paris, Ohio, for your ladies of, shall we say, girth ... You might think of "Pretty Faces" as a Size XXL 'Chorus Line.' " Jerry Tallmer - NY POST "Pretty Faces Is A Pretty Show" . . . Robert W. Cabell is both the author and composer. His music is snappy, familiar, and the lyrics are clever. Outstanding is the "Don't Talk Dirty". . . The girls sing Soliloquies throughout entitled "42-32-42" and the melody goes with you after the curtain goes down. Adele Furman - QUEENS CHRONICLE "The Subject matter is dealt with a direct and appealing forthright way. . . novel entertainment, maybe even a "Nunsense" waiting to be born. Bill O'Connell - APPLAUSE MAGAZINE 'Pretty Faces' provides considerable entertainment. . . Cabell's book is efficiently crafted, with enough laughs and human-interest details to keep the story perking. Michael Sander - LA, DRAMA-LOQUE "This spunky mini-musical is to be commended for avoiding the path of obvious fat jokes in the beauty pageant for "the large and lovely". . . there is a nourishing amount of good songs and commentaries for the calorie conscious as well." Stuart Wise - NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL "From the lyrical fantasy 'Furs, Fortune, Fame Glamour' to the randy girl talk of 'How Do You Like Your Men' and the tongue-in-cheek 'Twirling for Jesus" spirits run high and the stage rocks with generously endowed talent. Glenda Frank - CHELSEA CLINTON NEWS "Whatever their story, one really feels for these ... Move over, Miss America, here come the women of the Miss Global Glamour Girl Beauty Pageant." Moses Schonfeld - WRTN FM WVOX AM "Cabell keeps the tunes short 'n'bouncy, winning us over with the amusing "Too Plump For Prom Night," the recurring "Sleep Walkers' Lament," and Bobby Joy's star spangled, baton twirling, song "Twirling For Jesus". David Lefkowitz - SHOW BUSINESS, NY "The songs are effectively integrated to advance the plot and where that isn't possible, are artfully included as a talent competition entry. And what songs they are " Bob Harrington - BISTRO BITS - BACKSTAGE Pretty Faces the "Large & Lovely" Musical expands the boundary of what is beautiful ... The show boasts 26 new songs, great singing, awesome harmony Ned Sontag - DEMENSIONS MAGAZINE

I am princess Adara, the granddaughter of the immortal Little Mermaid. My parents were killed the day I was born, by the evil Sea Hag. I was left an orphan and raised on land until my thirteenth birthday, when I became a mermaid. Now, five years later I must return to my old life as Pearl Thorsen, to sail with the world's most promising students in oceanographic studies. With their help, I must create a new relationship between man and the merfolk. Together both races must forge a future where the sloth and greed of pollution has no place on the land or in the sea. In the first installment of the series, Killer Lamprey From The Trash Triangle, nuclear fallout has been released into the ocean after a tsunami disaster in Japan. It has infected the North Pacific Gyre and turned the massive floating continent of garbage into a breeding ground for gigantic killer sea creatures commanded by the old evil Sea Hag. When they begin attacking ships, Pearl and her friends must battle these killers of the deep, if they want to stay out of Davy Jones locker. With a little help from Pearl's mermaid persona, Princess Adara they may have a whale of a tale to tell if they don't get caught between these devils and the deep blue sea.

The Legend of ZORRO is Born Again - in "Z - The Musical of Zorro" A new swashbuckling Latin infused musical that will make your feet dance and your spirits soar. A classic musical for the new century. In "Z - The Musical Of Zorro" a traveling band of Gypsies performers tell the tale of young Diego Vega. He is the grandson of a Spanish Count and Gypsy Princess. Born in California he travels to Spain as a young boy to train under his grandfather, the royal swords master of Spain and learns the arts of stealth and magic from his Gypsy relatives. After the death of his grandfather he returns home to colonial California. But his home is in turmoil. The Royal Governor's demands for exorbitant taxes leave the homeless and hungry. Farms and villages have been torched and burnt to the ground. He is outraged by their plight, and inspired by the impassioned prayers of the beautiful Carlotta, for a leader to unite her people to fight for freedom, Diego vows to become that hero, and dons the mask of Zorro. Castilian blood, flamenco music, and gypsy passion embodied in one young man who challenges a greedy Tyrant. "When your freedom is stolen - sometimes you must steal it back piece by piece - like a thief in the night".