Written by Ken Davenport

and Real People Just Like You

September 25-October 18, 2009

 Previews September 23 and 24

Directed by

Cynthia Levin

Featuring

Cheryl Weaver

Keenan Manuel Ramos

Lauretta Pope

and

Scott Cordes

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Synopsis:

Where was your first time? Your wedding bed? A Burger King bathroom? Over 40,000 people anonymously posted their true first-time stories to a website. Silly, sweet, absurd, funny, gay, straight, awkward and shy, these stories spring to life in My First Time with just four amazing actors. You’ll be reminiscing about your own first time…and thinking about your next one. 

Special Events:

Talk back performances September 29, October 4 and 6

Stay afterwards for a discussion of the play with the Director and Actors.

 

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My First Time is anonymously sponsored and dedicated to those who should,

but can’t be here.

 

The Millennial League is an affiliate of the AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City.  They strive to assist in funding organizations which provide services to the diverse communities dealing with HIV/AIDS and to promote public education about HIV infections. 

Learn more about the AIDS Service Foundation and The Millennial League by clicking their logos above.

I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours!

Each night we ask our audience to fill out a survey based on their own “first time.” These results and personal, but anonymous, stories appear in the show that night. We have been keeping track of these results and wanted to shed some light on our audience with you.

11 virgins have attended My First Time.

17.83 is the average age of when the Unicorn Audience lost their virginity.

26.02% of the Unicorn Audience actually planned their first time.

13.85% of females in the Unicorn Audience felt pressured by someone to loose their virginity.

63.35% of the Unicorn Audience used contraceptives during their first time.

26.30% of the Unicorn Audience still keeps in touch with their first time partner.
 

 

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Why see only one show this season?

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September 25-October 18, 2009

Previews September 23 and 24

*Talk-Back Performance with the actors and director after the show.

Call 816-531-7529 x 10

Box Office Hours:

During Performance Weeks

Monday 12-5pm

Tuesday-Saturday 12-8pm

Sunday 1:30-3pm

 

Non-Performance Weeks

Tuesday-Friday 12-5pm

Videos

Photos

Production Photos

Pictured Cheryl Weaver, Lauretta Pope, Keenan Manuel Ramos and Scott Cordes.  Photos by Cynthia Levin.

Publicity Shots

Pictured Cheryl Weaver, Lauretta Pope, Keenan Manuel Ramos and Scott Cordes.  Photos by Cynthia Levin.

The Reviews are in...

 

Kansas City Star--Posted on Sat. Sept 26, 2009
Great cast makes most of variety of roles in 'My First Time'  (May require registration)

By ROBERT TRUSSELL 

 

Pitch--Posted on Tues. Sept 29, 2009
The Unicorn’s First Time is awkward (Click for story)

By ALAN SCHERSTUHL 

 

Sun Publications--Posted on Wed. Sept 30, 2009
Plays explore psychology of fairy tales, virginity   (Click for story)

By RUSS SIMMONS

 

InfoZine--Posted on Sat. Oct 3, 2009
My First Time: First a Web Site, then a Book, Now a Play at the Unicorn Theatre, Review  (Click for story)

By Jeannine Chatterton-Papineau 

 

kcmetropolis.org--Posted on Mon. Sept 28, 2009
There is always a first time  (Click for story)

By Andrea Huckaba  

 

 

Other Press

 

Kansas City Star--Posted on Wed. Sept 23, 2009
'My First Time' could be a hot ticket for the Unicorn  (May require registration)

By ROBERT TRUSSELL 

 

Ink--Posted on Tues. Sept 22, 2009
'My First Time' explores taboo topic  (Click for Story)

By SARAH BENSON

 

Pitch--Posted on Thurs. Sept 24, 2009
Losin' It  (Click for Story)

By ALAN SCHERSTUHL

 

Broadwayworld.com--Posted on Thurs. Sept 3, 2009
Unicorn Opens 2009-2010 Season with MY FIRST TIME, Runs 9/25-10/18  (Click for Story)

By BWW NEWS DESK

KEN DAVENPORT is one of the few independent producers to have three shows running simultaneously Off-Broadway. He is currently represented by The Awesome 80s Prom, which he created and directed (www.Awesome80sProm.com). The Prom is in its 3rd year in NYC and is also running in Chicago with previous companies in Minneapolis and Baltimore. Ken is also the Co-Conceiver and Producer of Altar Boyz, the 2005 Outer Critics Award Winner   for   Best    Off-Broadway   Musical   and   the  2006   and   2007 Broadway.com  Audience Favorite Award for Long Running Off-Broadway Musical (www.AltarBoyz.com). Altar Boyz recently finished a national tour of the U.S. and has also been seen in Korea and Hungary as well as other international destinations. Ken’s Broadway/national tour management credits include My Fair Lady, Grease, Show Boat, Candide, Ragtime, Parade (workshop), Jekyll & Hyde, Chicago, Cinderella, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Gypsy and many others. Ken taught “Acting As A Business” for AOL and was the Director of Creative Development for NETworks. He is a proud member of the BMI workshop for librettists and won the Acclaim Screenwriting Award for his television pilot “I.C.A.” Ken is currently adapting the Richard Matheson novel and film Somewhere in Time into a Broadway musical. Ken’s First Time was on July 28th, 1989.   www.DavenportTheatrical.com.

 

CYNTHIA LEVIN (DIRECTOR) is in her 31st season with Unicorn Theatre as Producing Artistic Director where she has served as a director, actor, designer or producer for over 230 productions. In addition to managing the Unicorn, she stays busy tending her 100-year-old Victorian home (and gardens), one dramatic dog and one very humorous cat. Most recently, she directed a staged reading of a world premiere at the Kennedy Center’s MFA Playwright’s Workshop, The Clean House and Mauritius at the Unicorn, And Then They Came for Me at The Coterie Theatre, Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire, Nickel and Dimed, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, tick, tick...BOOM!, Frozen, I Am My Own Wife, Bug, The Exonerated, Convenience, Take Me Out, Bat Boy: The Musical and the world premieres of rightnextto me (both at the Unicorn and Geva Theatre Center, Rochester, NY), How His Bride Came to Abraham, Light:Damage, Mercy Killing, Innocent Thoughts and Jack and Jill. At the Coterie Theatre she has also directed Frankenstein, Gatherings in Graveyards (I and II), Valley Song and To Kill A Mockingbird.  Cynthia is a graduate of Park University where she was additionally awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2002. She is also a founding board member of the National New Play Network, an organization dedicated to the development and production of new works. She is the 2006 recipient of the Pinnacle Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Johnson County Library Foundation and the 2007 recipient of the Human Rights Campaign Equality Award.  This season Cynthia will direct My First Time, Miss Witherspoon and Green Whales at the Unicorn.

 

 

LAURETTA POPE is so thrilled to be back at the Unicorn, and is most excited to be a part of this production.  She was most recently seen as Diwata in Speech & Debate on the Unicorn's Jerome Stage.  Before that, you might have seen Lauretta at The Coterie Theatre in The Witches and as Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical.  She graduated last May with an MFA in Acting from the University of Connecticut, where she appeared as Sally Bowles in Cabaret; Yasmin in Pentacost; Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost; Scheherazade in Mary Zimmerman’s Arabian Nights; and Mrs. Peachum in The Threepenny Opera among others.  Lauretta is no stranger to KC: She received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from UMKC’s Conservatory, she appeared for 3 years as The Ghost of Christmas Past in KC Rep’s A Christmas Carol, she’s worked for Steven Eubank as Rhoda in A New Brain, and she made an infamous appearance at Ron McGee’s Late Night Theatre in The Show Formerly Known as Purple Rain.  She would like to thank Cynthia for (once again) having faith in her and giving her a crack at a great show; and Dan O'Brien, her sexual lover-friend and biggest fan. Lauretta had a most amazing and beautiful first time at the ripe old age of 23

 

KEENAN MANUEL RAMOS is returning to the Unicorn stage after his debut in 2004's Take Me Out.  Recently he's been seen at The Coterie Theatre in U Bug Me and Suessical the Musical.  Keenan is excited to be back in Kansas City after spending a year on tour with the Kennedy Center's TYA tour of Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major.  Keenan attended Kansas State University majoring in theatre with an emphasis in performance.  He would like to thank his loving family and as always, Shannon. 

 

 

CHERYL WEAVER may be remembered by audiences for her many performances here at the Unicorn.  They include Frozen, Sideman, The Mineola Twins, Spinning into Butter, As Bees in Honey Drown, Closer, Jack and Jill, Memory of Water, Nickel and Dimed, and most recently 9 Parts of Desire, the inaugural production of the Jerome Stage.  Performing at the Unicorn is coming home again!  Other area theaters include Kansas City Repertory Theatre, where she appeared in highly acclaimed productions of A Flea in Her Ear, The Trip to Bountiful, The Voysey Inheritance,  Living Out, and A Christmas Carol; The American Heartland (Murder By the Book, Dinner Party) The New Theatre Restaurant, (Rumors, Busybody, Father of the Bride, Moon Over Buffalo), The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, (Love’s Labor’s Lost, Measure for Measure) and the Coterie (Little House on the Prairie, Gatherings in Graveyards.)  Regionally, Cheryl has performed all over the country from  Dallas, Houston, and Detroit to San Francisco, where she performed at the American Conservatory Theatre in a new adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. She also has many film and commercial credits, and is represented in KC by Exposure Agency. Cheryl’s first time was not special enough to recall a date; maybe Spring, definitely night, possibly on the floor.

 

SCOTT CORDES is glad to be back at the Unicorn after a busy year that included The Heartland’s Murder by the Book, The Rep’s A Flea in Her Ear, Merry Wives for the Shakespeare festival and ATKC’s Glengarry Glen Ross.  He has a long history with the Unicorn with recent shows like The Exonerated, Take Me Out and Fuddy Meers; to vintage favorites like Beirut and Unidentified Human Remains; and all the way back to Never Say Die at the old schoolhouse space.  Scott dreamed of being a rodeo clown as a boy in Nebraska, and tried his hand driving an alfalfa truck, radio DJing in small towns, and working on rock shows as a stage hand before becoming an actor.  …Scott recalls his “first time” fondly, but is much more interested in the next time.  www.scottcordes.com

 

 

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