STRAIGHT UP VAMPIRE RETURNS!
I’m playing the role of Ben Franklin who turns into a werewolf. Jason Trachtenburg dons a peculiar accent.
!!EXTRA DATE ADDED!!
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9th at 7:30 pm!
(Feb 7 & 8 at 8 pm, Bowery Poetry Club)
Tickets: 212-614-0505
First induced into labor for Halloween, it is reborn for Valentine’s Day!
Paula Abdul’s
“Straight Up Vampire”
(a Gothic Political Romance)
or
The History of Vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania
as Performed to the Music of Paula Abdul
February 7 and 8th, (thurs, fri)
Bowery Poetry Club
8 pm
$10
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It’s 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia.
Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright’s son.
Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves.
Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony.
MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly.
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A touching, informative, and spooky musical hayride through fake American history, set to the music of Paula Abdul, as performed by the likes of CORN MO, THE O’DEBRA TWINS, JASON TRACHTENBERG, THE PIZZAS, and more. . .
Learn about the history of vampires in Philadelphia while crying because you are so moved by the plot in this staged reading of a new jukebox musical
from my sister’s dead friend.
written by Paige Greenwald (RIP)
as
reconstituted by Nick Jones, Zak Vreeland and Peter J. Cook
directed by Peter J. Cook
music arranged and performed
by Dr Steamwhipple and the Prescriptions
with performances by
Magin Schantz
Jason Quarles
The O’Debra Twins
Members of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Jason Trachtenberg
Megan Stern
Aziza Omar
Justin Noble
Zak Vreeland
Draeregano
and Corn Mo as Benjamin Franklin
produced by Nick Jones
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Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker and Houston
NYC
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2 Comments
PoorPete
Good luck this weekend!
Have you seen Jack Black play Ben Franklin?
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6eff3fba0d
I hope you rock equal or greater then he does in the role!
Steven
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