Venice
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Oct 7, 2010
Closed Nov 14, 2010
Visit the Venice website:
http://www.centertheatregroup.org
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
A next generation Broadway musical that uses the vocabulary of hip-hop while sampling Othello and Brecht to spin an epic tale of struggle and redemption sure to entertain audience members from 15 to 50 to 150.
Matt Sax and Eric Rosen, creators of the 2007 audience favorite Clay, return triumphantly to the Douglas with Venice, an ambitious new musical with a highly original score that fuses hip-hop, R & B and even opera.
Set in the not-too-distant future, this tale of two brothers with conflicting ideas of how to lead a city caught in a terrorist war is a visionary new theatrical work filled with love, politics, treachery, tragedy and exhilarating music.
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Venice, the new musical at the Kirk Douglas Theater, is a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, filled with betrayal, jealousy, hope, and forgiveness. But if its themes are familiar; the work of co-creators Matt Sax and Eric Rosen (who also directs) make this must-see piece seem revolutionary.
In the show's (barely) fictionalized universe, Venice is a city that has been ruled for two decades by terrorists and corruption. A new leader, General Venice Monroe (Javier Muñoz), has restored order and has welcomed back all those who have been in seclusion for 20 years. Most are returning for the first time since early childhood, including Michael Victor (Erich Bergen), Venice's second [...]