FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

James Detmar

612-396-5809

Casting Spells Productions

110 - 1ST Ave NE, suite #F414

Minneapolis MN 55413

(MINNEAPOLIS, MN) Casting Spells Productions will be presenting the musical comedy

DISENCHANTED! A New Musical Comedy That Gives Fairy Tales the Bird, at the Ritz Theater

in NE Minneapolis Sept. 26 Oct. 13, 2013.

Answering the question, What happens after Happily Ever After? DISENCHANTED! was

first performed at the Orlando Fringe Festival in 2011(Best of the Fringe!) Since then, audiences

in New York, Los Angeles, Syracuse, Philadelphia and San Francisco have experienced SOLD

OUT performances, each witnessing the empowering message of DISENCHANTED!

Mark Bergren, well known in the Twin Cities as the longtime Artistic Director of Dudley Riggs

Brave New Workshop, and in Orlando as a show director and writer for Walt Disney

Entertainment will direct DISENCHANTED! He joins James Detmar, local actor, director and

writer, and Michael Shann, former Disney executive and producer, to make up Casting Spells

Productions LLC.

DISENCHANTED! is the rare musical comedy that's not afraid to tackle hot-button issues, with

razor sharp wit and laugh out loud lyrics, that have audiences politely begging for more.

Through music and comedy, the show addresses such timeless topics as race (where The One

Who Kisses The Frog points out that it took animated movies over 70 years to welcome an

African-American princess to the fold), diet (as Cinderella bemoans the concept of skinny

princesses in the song "All I Wanna Do Is Eat"), the princess complex (in which The Little

Mermaid can't believe she gave up her undersea life, her father, her friends, not to mention her

fin just to net a man), and sexuality (Hua Mulan proves she's no less valid a princess just

because she doesn't have a man in her life in "Without The Guy", wherein our brave Chinese

warrior shares that shes absolutely fine, being a little Gertrude Stein!

DISENCHANTED! is a visual treat with a vaudevillian flavor featuring a variety of musical and

dance styles, props on steroids, and hand-puppet choreography!

By the musical's end, we discover those worn out tales of damsels in distress were indeed

"Once Upon A Time and our princesses, now empowered, embrace the fact that they truly

are mistresses of their own destinies.

You'll be enchanted with [DISENCHANTED!]! Its concepts, conceits and songs

appealed to everyone in a demographically mixed audience, regardless of ages,

sexual orientation, ethnic background, height or weight packed with a roaring,

cheering audience. As for the performers, they are superstardom bound!

- Myra Chanin, Huffington Post

The cast includes six well-known local actresses, all worthy of fairy tale princess status:

Bonni Allen (Cinderella), Jen Burleigh-Bentz (Snow White), Joy Dolo (Rapunzel, The

One Who Kissed The Frog), Vanessa Gamble (Belle, The Little Mermaid), Suzie Juul

(Sleeping Beauty) and Pegah Kadkhodaian (Hua Mulan, Pocahontas).

To arrange Artist Interviews contact James Detmar, producer, at jimootblue@aol.com

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