THE SLUG BEARERS OF KAYROL ISLAND OR, THE FRIENDS OF DR. RUSHOWER is a new musical from the company (Vineyard Theatre) that brought in Avenue Q and [title of show] !
with Stephen Lee Anderson, Tom Riis Farrell, Jody Flader, Peter Friedman, Matt Pearson, Bobby Steggert, Will Swensen
Libretto and drawings by BEN KATCHOR
Songs by MARK MULCAHY
Choreography by JOHN CARRAFA
Directed by BOB McGRATH
Cartoonist and writer Ben Katchor's drawings form the animated background for this wondrous and darkly funny new musical, set in and around Manhattan and a tropical factory-island of exploited workers.
Bob McGrath (note: same name, different person: Not "Bob" from Sesame Street) is the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Ridge Theater and has directed theater and opera at venues including The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, The American Repertory Theater, Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, and Arts at St. Ann’s. He joined the Department of Theatre Arts faculty at Virginia Tech in fall 2007. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, NYU, and as part of The Eugene O’Neill Theater Festival. Mr. McGrath is the recipient of three OBIE awards in New York for his work with The Ridge Theater.
Ben Katchor is a cartoonist, the recipient of an Obie Award, and a winner of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (the so-called "genius grant"); Katchor has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.
Vineyard Theatre
108 East 15th Street
New York, NY 10003
For tickets, contact TheaterMania
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