Dan Cirucci: 'Pageant' Musical To Host Miss America Night, 9/14

Friday, September 12, 2014

'Pageant' Musical To Host Miss America Night, 9/14

Producers are pleased to announce that the limited engagement of PAGEANT will host a special Miss America night in honor of our nation’s top beauty pageant, The 88th Annual Miss America Pageant, on Sunday, September 14.

For the Sunday, September 14 at 7:30pm performance, all audience members, both male and female, who arrive in their best pageant attire will receive half-priced tickets, available on a first-come-first-served basis beginning one hour prior to curtain at The Davenport Theatre (354 West 45th Street).

Immediately following the show, special guest judges including Pageant and Side Show author Bill Russell, Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley (Side Show, 1997), Emily Padgett (Side Show, 2014), and more will crown a winner from the best-dressed in the audience. The winner will receive their photo with the cast and judges, a dozen delicious cookies courtesy of Schmackary’s, one pair of full-fashioned hosiery, a limited edition Pageant tiara, a digital copy of the album, and a signed Pageant poster.

All audience members in attendance on Sunday will then be invited to join the cast after the show at Boxers (742 9th Ave) for a special screening of The 88th Annual Miss America Pageant, a free drink, and $3 drink specials all night.

Pageant choreographer Shea Sullivan has choreographed for four contestants in Miss America this year, and also choreographed the talent routine for Mallory Hytes Hagan, who won Miss America 2013, becoming the second tap dancer to ever be crowned Miss America in the pageant's 93-year history.

PAGEANT was recently extended through Sunday, October 26, 2014, at The Davenport Theatre (354 West 45th Street) in New York City. Tickets can be purchased at Telecharge.com, by calling (212) 239-6200, or at the box office of The Davenport Theatre (354 West 45th Street). The show plays Saturdays at 8:00 pm, Sundays at 7:30 pm and Mondays at 7 pm.

After a sold-out benefit run for BC/EFA this February, PAGEANT returns in a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Davenport Theatre (354 West 45th Street). The cast of tiara-crazed beauties includes Nick Cearley (“The Skivvies”), Nic Cory (Signs of Life), Alex Ringler (West Side Story), Marty Thomas (Wicked, Xanadu), Seth Tucker (Our Kiki), and Curtis Wiley (Motown), with John Bolton (A Christmas Story, “Gossip Girl”) as the host. Previews began Sunday, June 29, 2014, and the show officially opened on Monday, July 14, 2014.

Here’s what critics have to say:

“The time is ripe for the piquant charms of the musical Pageant!”

-Entertainment Weekly

“OUTRAGEOUS, GROUNDBREAKING AND THIGH-SLAPPINGLY HILARIOUS! Every aspect of this flag-flying, Rockettes-kicking mini-extravaganza crackles and pops. From the opening number to the surprise finale… there’s a laugh a minute awaiting summer audiences badly in need of some. THE CAST IS SPLENDIFEROUS!”

-Rex Reed, NY Observer

“GOOD, CLEAN, CAMPY FUN… Anyone can take pleasure in that!”

-The New Yorker

“No funny bones are spared! Pageant is pure entertainment … A COMEDIC ROMP!”
-Metro

“Cheeky and charming. PAGEANT IS SO MUCH FUN, there are no losers anywhere in the house!”

-Talkin Broadway

“4 STARS! YOU’LL HOWL THROUGH 90 MINUTES OF RAPTUROUS JOY. The six contestants competing for Miss Glamouresse are ABSOLUTELY SUBLIME!”

-StageZine

Like every beauty pageant you've seen before, PAGEANT features contestants desperately vying for a glittering tiara. With swimsuit, talent, and evening gown competitions – the show includes both the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat! Unlike some beauty pageants you've seen before, the female contestants are all played by men. And the audience gets to select the winner each night. Filled with excitement and suspense, but first and foremost, beauty. Let the beauty begin!

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He's been cited by the late Rush Limbaugh, quoted in the New York Times, featured at Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com and interviewed across all media.

He's Dan Cirucci, the founder and editor-in chief of the Dan Cirucci Blog, a Save Jersey blog columnist, frequent guest on the Matt Rooney radio show and one of the most widely honored public relations professionals in his field. He's also been a public relations consultant to numerous organizations and individuals and hosted The Advocates on RVN-TV.

Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post, Broad and Liberty and other print and online platforms.

A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Cirucci's passions include all things Italian, politics, the popular culture, books and authors, art, communication, music, theatre, movies, dining and travel.

He and his wife Carole have two grown children and seven grandchildren.

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