Discover more about Lizzie, The Musical with Backstage SoCal’s preview of this punk-rock opera before seeing it in person:
Discover more about Lizzie, The Musical with Backstage SoCal’s preview of this punk-rock opera before seeing it in person:““Lizzie, The Musical” began life as a four-song experimental theater/rock show hybrid sprung from Tim Maner and Steven Cheslik-deMeyer’s love of musicals, Americana, women rockers, and late-80s queer politics”.
“The wide-ranging combined experience of the three [Steven Cheslik-deMeyer, Alan Stevens Hewitt, and Tim Maner] gives “Lizzie, The Musical” a sound that owes less to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim than it does to Heart, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Grace Slick, Radiohead, and the Runaways.”
“This phase of development culminated in a production (called Lizzie Borden at the time) that ran for six weeks in fall 2009 at The Living Theatre on New York’s Lower East Side with sell-out crowds, great reviews, and received three Drama Desk Award nominations”
Read the rest of the preview below and don’t miss your chance to see this regional premiere on the Cripe Stage at Chance Theater.
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