CRY IT OUT (VIRTUAL RECORDING)

Viewing Dates: March 5-14, 2021

Written by Molly Smith Metzler. Directed by Amanda Sox.

Featuring Libby Ricardo, Taylor Harvey*, Thomas Azar, and Lindsay Ryan.

One year after the production was cancelled due to COVID-19, many of the members of Lean’s original company return to present Cry It Out virtually.

*Taylor Harvey stepped in to replace Meghan Azar (as seen in the rehearsal photos below) in the role of Lina.

PRESS

After a pause for the pandemic, this funny family drama is worth the wait.

BY NANCY K. WELLARD FOR THE ISLAND PACKET

One year, almost to the day, after a brilliant comedic drama planned for the Hilton Head stage in 2020 was canceled due to COVID-19, the members of Lean Ensemble’s original cast have teamed up to present it virtually.

“Cry It Out,” by the distinguished playwright Molly Smith Metzler, is a phenomenal 90-minute video recording, a Zoom reading.

Lean Ensemble’s founding and artistic director, Blake White, introduces this timely performance; which is a gift, really, to all of us who are missing the theater, generally-and going to performances of the Lean Ensemble specifically.

Read full article from The Island Packet, HERE!

Banish baby blues with laughter in Hilton Head theater’s virtual ‘Cry it Out’ production

BY CAROLYN MALES SPECIAL TO THE ISLAND PACKET AND BEAUFORT GAZETTE

“… Having a baby cracks your life open …” — Molly Smith Metzler, playwright of “Cry It Out”

Amanda Sox and Libby Ricardo, both mothers of young children, love their kids. But they agree that those little bundles of joy can be big-time disrupters of life as they once knew it. Everything changes: Priorities. Schedules. Relationships – marital, familial, work and friendship. Finances. Lifestyle. Sleep.

Lean Ensemble’s production of “Cry It Out,” Molly Smith Metzler’s comedic take on new parenthood, draws on these changes. Beginning March 5, it will start streaming for two weeks.

Read full article from The Island Packet, here.

Rehearsal Photos

Please note: Taylor Harvey stepped in to replace Meghan Azar (as seen in the rehearsal photos below) in the role of Lina.