Silence of the Lambs Spoof Silence! The Musical Extends at Off-Broadway's Theatre 80

Silence!, the musical parody of the 1991 Oscar-winning film The Silence of the Lambs, has extended through September 24 at off-Broadway's Theatre 80. The limited engagement, which opened on July 9, was originally scheduled to run through August 27.

Silence! The Musical, directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, stars Jenn Harris as Clarice Starling, Brent Barrett as Hannibal Lecter, Stephen Bienskie as Buffalo Bill, Lucia Spina as Catherine Martin, Harry Bouvy as Dr. Chilton, Deidre Goodwin as Ardelia Mapp, Jeff Hiller as Sgt. Pembry, Howard Kaye as Jack Crawford, Callan Bergmann as Dream Hannibal and Ashlee Dupree as Dream Clarice.

The show features a book by Tony nominee Hunter Bell and music and lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan. Silence! was named Best Musical at the 2005 Fringe Festival and was successfully produced in London last season.

In the Academy Award-winning film, rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling matches wits with the brilliant but insane cannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to catch the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill. Clarice must face her own demons and race the clock to unlock Lecter’s clues before another innocent girl is killed. In the musical version, the action is narrated by a singing chorus of floppy-eared lambs and Buffalo Bill dances a hoedown while kidnapping the hapless Catherine Martin.