Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 5, 2009
Closed May 24, 2009
Opened May 5, 2009
Closed May 24, 2009
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A fast-paced entertainment that takes a sharp, irreverent look at America's seventh president, Andrew Jackson, this satirical epic reveals questions about the country we live in and the leaders we choose. From Obie winners Alex Timbers (A Very Merry Unauthorized Scientology Pageant) and Michael Friedman (co-writer of Paris Commune in Public LAB 2007).
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Surprises abound throughout
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version, the remarkably inventive and often hilarious musical retelling of the life of America's controversial seventh president by Alex Timbers (who also directed) and composer-lyricist Michael Friedman, now at the Public Theater. For example, who knew Martin Van Buren (the hilarious Lucas Near-Verbrugghe) loved Twinkies? Or that the troubled Jackson (Benjamin Walker) once indulged in one of his ritual self-bleedings while Cher's "Song for the Lonely" played in the background.
More realistically, who knew that Walker -- who gave distinctly earnest performances in the recent Broadway revivals of Les Liaisons Dangereuses [...]