New York Theatre Workshop have announced the final production of its 2006-2007 season, the world premiere of All the Wrong Reasons: A True Story of Neo-Nazis, Drug Smuggling, and Undying Love, written and performed by John Fugelsang. The show replaces the previously announced 24 Hours Are Not a Day, written and directed by René Pollesch, which has not yet been rescheduled. All The Wrong Reasons will begin performances on March 23 at NYTW, directed by Pam MacKinnon Bach at Leipzig. Opening night is set for April 15.
An ex-nun from the Deep South leaves her African convent to marry a former Franciscan brother from Brooklyn and the child they promised God they would never, ever have struggles with existential morality in this tale of love and blasphemy; depression and the drug war; life and death; and how to offer sexual favors to famous Nazis on the air.
Fugelsang has performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Film and TV credits include Coyote Ugly, Somewhere in The City, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Providence, Becker, over 20 appearances on Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher, Americas Funniest Home Videos,TV411 for PBS, The ACLU Freedom Files for Court TV, McEnroe and Bullseye for CNBC, Paul McCartney's Live Town Hall and George Harrison: The Last Performance for VH1, and numerous stand-up appearances. New York stage credits include Savage in Limbo, Blue Window and Junk Male, which played for several years at The Duplex in Greenwich Village. He received the award for "Outstanding New York Monologist" at Lincoln Center from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs. Fugelsang's piece on the history of the Drug War was recently published on the Huffington Post.
