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The Material World
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(Dixon Place, 161 A Chrystie, New York, NY, 10002)(7pm)
Baby-faced downtown sweetheart Cole Escola (Logo
TV’s “Jeffery & Cole Casserole”) joins cabaret
sensation Molly Pope (“Our Hit Parade”) and Tony-
nominated Yiddish theater legend Eleanor Reissa in
acclaimed playwright Dan Fishback’s new musical,
The Material World, directed by Fishback’s frequent
collaborator Stephen Brackett (Ars Nova’s Be a Good
Widow). Set in a boarding house in 1921, The
Material World features an anachronistic cast of
neurotic Jews, all trying to save the planet. Gittel
Fenster (Megan Stern), a 12-year-old radical
socialist, studies Marxism to prepare for global
anti-capitalist revolt, while gay nerd Ian Fleishman
(Escola) tests the revolutionary power of Facebook,
and the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna (Amy
Gironda) mediates on secret Kabbalistic codes
to fix a broken universe. The characters grapple
with their lofty ambitions and their capacity for
failure, to an eclectic score of bouncy electro dance
pop, ramshackle twee-folk and classic Tin Pan
Alley. And unlike other pop musicals about
Madonna and socialism, this play has scenes in
Yiddish. The second installment of “The Ian
Fleishman Trilogy,” and a sequel to the 2009 erotic
Chanukah comedy You Will Experience Silence, The
Material World continues Fishback’s exploration of
Jewish political neurosis. This soulful musical brings
surprising tenderness, humor, and ferocious diva
realness to the most depressing political realities.(2122190736)($12 advance / $15 door) tim@dixonplace.org
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| July 6-7 , 13-14 , 20-21 , 27-28 , 7pm |
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