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Boca Bound: A New Musical By Polo Club Creators

To Have Premiere Performances At Boca’s Wick Theatre

The premiere performances of Boca Bound: A New Musical The result of this almost accidental collaboration is Boca $50 to $55 and are available by phone at (561) 995-2333 or
will take place at The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton from Sept. Bound: A New Musical. Both Logan and Peshkin learned online at www.bocaboundmusical.com or www.thewick.org.
19 to 22. The show, with a book by Bonnie Logan and music that developing a musical takes work, work, and more work. A portion of the proceeds from Boca Bound ticket sales
and lyrics by Richard Peshkin, both of whom are residents of The show was workshopped, re-written, and re-imagined will be donated to The Pap Corps. Since its founding in
the Polo Club, is being produced by White Ibis Productions. countless times: “I found that many of the lessons I learned 1952, The Pap Corps (https://thepapcorps.org/) has donated
Bonnie Logan was immobilized and recuperating from a bad from athletics apply here,” Peshkin says. “You must learn more than $110 million to Sylvester Comprehensive
fall when she was visited by her good friends, Karen and Richard to be a team player, and very open at all times. Musically, I Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School
Peshkin. Richard, a retired physician with a deep musical learned that writing lyrics within the framework of a story of Medicine, including a historic $50 million pledge in
background, suggested she needed “intellectual stimulation,” is much easier than trying to start from scratch without a 2016. The Pap Corps derives its name from Dr. George
and proposed she write a story. “You decide what it’s going to particular theme. Thus, I wrote each song’s lyrics first before Papanicolaou, a pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer
be about. Here are a couple of songs I wrote; think of them as adding the melody. In the past, it was random.” detection, who introduced the world to the revolutionary
inspiration, I’ll be back in a few days,” she recalls him saying. “And I learned very quickly that I didn’t need 20 years of “Pap” test. A small group of women began the organization
“Karen and I knew Bonnie as a friend,” Peshkin says, “And experience to write a meaningful and honest story,” Logan to support his efforts, and over the decades it has grown
we were aware she has a great sense of humor. Little did we says. “You can learn the technical skills necessary if you’re into an organization of over 22,000 men and women, in
know that she has passionate and not afraid to work hard (and we worked very over 50 chapters, who raise funds to support research for
great writing skills hard!). And special people can always be found to help you all types of cancers.
and a strong ear for learn what you need. What I discovered was what I really
dialogue.” needed, I already had … a lifetime of stories to tell.”
“I wrote all Boca Bound tells the story of Nadine, a successful New
the time,” Logan York attorney. But life has a way of throwing curve balls, and
explains. “For when a significant change occurs in her well-ordered life, she
work, but never for must learn to adapt – and to reassess. A trip to Boca Raton,
the theatre. And re-connections with friends and family, and the possibility of
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first person to tell happen lead Nadine on a journey of discovery – about the for over 25 years
a story, any story, choices she has made and those she can still make in order
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