Music Makes The People Come Together
Dear Friends,
Halloween is a time for scary things, and I can think of nothing scarier than this: I AM WRITING A MUSICAL. The folks at Nehirim and the JCC have kindly invited me to do a reading of my new work-in-progress on October 31st, as part of their Queer Shabbaton New York weekend. Feel free to come in costume! I will be going as "Person Who is Barfing All Over Himself," because that's how nervous I am to put this thing on stage.
Scroll down for the synopsis. I needn't say more.
Perhaps I'll see you there?
Much Love
Dan
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Saturday, October 31
THE MATERIAL WORLD: a musical work-in-progress
The JCC Manhattan (334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th Street, NYC)
Tickets: $10, Reading starts at 8:30pm
written by Dan Fishback, directed by Stephen Brackett
starring Erin Markey as Madonna, rest of cast TBA
musical accompaniment by Matt Katz and Dibson Hoffweiler
The time is 1921. The place is the Bronx. The Fenster family is contemplating a return to Russia, years after escaping the Tsar. As Mama and Papa fight about socialism and communism, their daughter Gittel hangs out with Madonna, Britney Spears, and an amateur gay webcam pornographer. Everyone breaks out in song.
This reading is being presented by Nehirim, as part of their Queer Shabbaton New York "urban retreat." For more information on a whole weekend of events, visit http://www.nehirim.org/qsny.
http://www.jccmanhattan.org
http://www.nehirim.org
http://www.danfishback.com
Halloween is a time for scary things, and I can think of nothing scarier than this: I AM WRITING A MUSICAL. The folks at Nehirim and the JCC have kindly invited me to do a reading of my new work-in-progress on October 31st, as part of their Queer Shabbaton New York weekend. Feel free to come in costume! I will be going as "Person Who is Barfing All Over Himself," because that's how nervous I am to put this thing on stage.
Scroll down for the synopsis. I needn't say more.
Perhaps I'll see you there?
Much Love
Dan
************************
Saturday, October 31
THE MATERIAL WORLD: a musical work-in-progress
The JCC Manhattan (334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th Street, NYC)
Tickets: $10, Reading starts at 8:30pm
written by Dan Fishback, directed by Stephen Brackett
starring Erin Markey as Madonna, rest of cast TBA
musical accompaniment by Matt Katz and Dibson Hoffweiler
The time is 1921. The place is the Bronx. The Fenster family is contemplating a return to Russia, years after escaping the Tsar. As Mama and Papa fight about socialism and communism, their daughter Gittel hangs out with Madonna, Britney Spears, and an amateur gay webcam pornographer. Everyone breaks out in song.
This reading is being presented by Nehirim, as part of their Queer Shabbaton New York "urban retreat." For more information on a whole weekend of events, visit http://www.nehirim.org/qsny.
http://www.jccmanhattan.org
http://www.nehirim.org
http://www.danfishback.com
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Well I, for one, am looking forward to the sequel, in which the Fensters return to the Workers' Paradise and are soon thereafter arrested, separated, tortured until they admit to being American spies, and finally sent to GULAG for very short lives of miserable slave labor and starvation. Perhaps Aretha Franklin and Bea Arthur can visit them in their new homes?
I've never been a big fan of communism, and neither were most Jewish socialists in the 20s and 30s. Nice to hear from you Nathan! Having fun living in a country with universal health-care and farming collectives?
xoxo
dan