Music City brings a slice of Nashville to the Big Apple

New York goes onward, always.Francine LeFrak, producer of B’way and Hollywood winners, is behind just opened “Music City” at St.Luke’s West 46th Street theater.
Set in a Nashville, Tenn., bar.TV friend Dana Perino discovered its Upper West Side tryout someplace in whoknowswhere long, long ago.Francine: “I fell for the awesome raw talent.
This was an injection.I felt I had to support it.
So I came out of retirement to do this. The setting is tables and chairs like a dive bar in Nashville.”She went to Nashville, inhaled it, read the script, knew the songs, sniffed the creative process again, “Knew I had to do this” and its due last night big-time opening will be larger than my mouth.The creative contingent seems to be creating anew.Peter J. Ward just launched Stand By 1.It’s an all biggie studio.
With him is a former NBC “Today” show producer, a former Wall Street Journal hotshot — all biggies on the staff including top writer Peter, who has interviewed me formerly and formally.Everyone’s a former VIP specializing in inside information, rare interviews, behind-the-scenes stuff and whatever clings to a partridge in a pear tree.So, if looking for an agent, director, producer or a job, call Peter — not me. It’s summer and I don’t have any potato salad for you, but I do have a few tasty treats:James Joyce had a fetish for knickers that were on dolls.Carried them around in his pocket.
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