Brett Singer & Associates, LLC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
Presents
Book and Lyrics by Kirk Wood
Bromley
Music by John Gideon
At The Village Theatre, 158 Bleecker @ Thompson
Inverse Theater Company will
present The
Banger’s Flopera – A Musical Perversion at The Village Theatre, 158
Bleecker at Thompson and will begin Sunday, August 14th. This will be Inverse’s much-awaited return
to fringeNYC after its show, Lost – The
Musical (“The Best Musical in the Fringe” - Time Out NY) was the only
production to win Excellence in Music and Lyrics at the Fringe Awards. With The Banger’s Flopera, Inverse continues
its legacy of creating top-notch musical production teams, having worked with
Urinetown’s Mark Hollman for On the
Origin of Darwin, Avenue Q’s Robert Lopez for The American Revolution, and the late Jessica Grace Wing for Lost.
The Banger’s Flopera is an update (or “perversion”) of the infamous Beggar’s Opera (the 18th century play which is also the
source for Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera). Where the original featured a cast of
beggars, hookers and crooks, this new version features “gangstaz, pornstaz, and
popstaz,” depicting the many ways in which our captivatingly corrupt culture
idolizes and gives political influence to its own destructive elements. With a
16 song score, in styles ranging from rock and rap to torch songs and
psychedelic power ballads, Banger’s
offers a full rock musical experience along with a quintessentially
mind-spinning Bromley script deeply steeped in “sex, thugs, and
rock-n-roll.” True to its source in its
ghetto and sleaze themes, it stars the infamous Mac the Knife, who in this
version is morphed into a professional pornographer and consummate New York
Gangsta, as he cheats, robs and murders his way to the electric chair, only to
be pardoned last minute by a criminal-friendly President.
Kirk Wood Bromley is a NYC-based
playwright, actor, theater writer, musician and Artistic Director of Inverse
Theater Company. His plays have been
produced in New York, Los Angeles, London, San Francisco, Cleveland and various
college campuses around the country.
Inverse Theater, the company he founded, won Best Downtown Theater in
the New York Press in 2001. Bromley was
the recipient of the 2001 Berrilla Kerr Foundation Playwrights Award and his
plays won two Fringe Awards – Excellence in Playwrighting (The American Revolution, 2002) and Excellence in Music and Lyrics (Lost, 2003).
Composer John Gideon has
worked as a musician in over 30 musicals including national Broadway tours, as
well as performing at such venues as Joe’s Pub, The Knitting Factory, and The
Bitter End. The director of The
Banger’s Flopera – A Musical Perversion is Ben Yalom, who is the
Artistic Director of foolsFURY, an ensemble based experimental theater company
in San Francisco. He recently directed
Naomi Newman’s one-woman show Fall Down
Get Up for A Traveling Jewish Theater and a New York tour and has worked
and trained with Anne Bogart and SITI Company.
Set designer Jane Stein has
worked on many Broadway shows including Lenny,
Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, Chicago, The Magic Show, Equus, and Bette
Midler’s Clams on the Half Shell Review.
Costume designer Karen Flood did the original costumes for Urinetown. And lighting designer Jeff Nash has worked with artists
as diverse and renowned as Ellen Stewart, Frank Corsaro, Stuart Sherman, Natsu
Nakajima, Sin Cha Hong, John Vaccaro, Robert Wilson, and Gian Carlo Menotti.
The cast of The
Banger’s Flopera – A Musical Perversion includes Joe Pindelski,
April Vidal, Anni Bruno, Dan Renkin, Dalane Mason, Brian Kelly, Catherine
McNelis, Kelly Spitko, Randall Middleton, Chris McCutchen, Timothy McCown
Reynolds, Bob Laine, Hank Wagner, Saaarah@gmail.com, John McConnel, Lydia Burns
and Josh Hartung.
The
Banger’s Flopera – A Musical Perversion will begin performances on Sunday, August 14th and
the schedule will be as follows:
Sunday,
August 14th @ 3:45PM Friday,
August 26th @ 9:45PM
Thursday,
August 18th @ 2:00PM Saturday,
August 27th @ 11:00PM
Sunday,
August 21st @ 2:15PM
Tickets will be $15 and can be purchased by calling (212)
279-4488 or visit www.fringenyc.org.
Photos will be available for download at
www.brettsinger.com/clients/bangers.html. To learn more about the company,
visit www.inversetheater.org.
The Banger’s Flopera – A Musical
Perversion
Books & Lyrics by Kirk Wood Bromley,
Music by John Gideon, Directed by Ben Yalom
At The Village Theatre, 158 Bleecker Street
@ Thompson
SCHEDULE:
Sunday, August 14th @ 3:45PM;
Thursday, August 18th @ 2:00PM; Sunday, August 21st @
2:15PM;
Friday, August 26th @ 9:45PM;
Saturday, August 27th @ 11:00PM
TICKETS: $15.00; Call (212) 279-4488 or
visit www.fringenyc.org
311 West 43rd Street Suite #1107 phone: (212)
307-7181
New York, NY 10036 Fax: (212) 307-7178