The Musical of Musicals - The Musical! to Play Dodger Stages

The York Theatre Company production of The Musical of Musicals - The Musical! will return off-Broadway this winter. The show, which previously had two popular engagements at the York's Theatre at Saint Peter's, is set to begin performances at the 199-seat venue at Dodger Stages on February 2.

The Musical of Musicals - The Musical! is a musical about ...musicals! In a comic satire of musical theater genres, one story becomes five musicals, each in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. The show features music by Eric Rockwell, lyrics by Joanne Bogart and a book by Rockwell and Bogart. The original company Craig Fols, Lovette George, Rockwell and Bogart will all appear in the show at Dodger Stages. Pamela Hunt directs and choreographs.

John Simon of New York Magazine wrote of the show: "People who love musicals and enjoy seeing them affectionately kidded, as well as many others, got quite a kick out of the rather pleonastically titled The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!… One had to admire the authors' intimacy with the things they lovingly lampooned, and the deftness and piquancy with which they put that familiarity to use: Not a little verbal and musical cleverness went into these five flights of fancy."

The theater's current tenant, Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique, has announced a January 2 closing date.