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Inverse Follows Up Fringe Hit Lost With New Banger's Flopera
By Robert Simonson
14 Jul 2005
The Inverse Theatre Company, which had a critical and popular hit with its 2003 New York International Fringe Festival entry, the Jessica Grace Wing opera Lost, returns to the fest in 2004 with another musical offering: The Banger's Flopera—A Musical Perversion.
The show will play The Village Theatre beginning Aug. 14.
As the mocking title readily suggest, the piece is an update of John Gay's famous The Beggar's Opera, the 1728 work of musical theatre that later inspired Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera. According to press materials, "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." Mack the Knife, meanwhile, has morphed into a
professional pornographer and "consummate New York Gangsta."
The score by Kirk Wood Bromley (book and lyrics) and John Gideon (music) employs styles ranging from rock and rap to torch songs and "psychedelic power ballads." Ben Yalom directs. The cast 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, Sarah
Engelke, John McConnel, Lydia Burns and Josh Hartung.
Tickets will be $15 and can be purchased by calling (212) 279-4488 or
visit www.fringenyc.org.
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