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Iron Curtain
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 5, 2011
Closed Dec 4, 2011

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http://www.prospecttheater.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Prospect's hit musical, winner of the 2006 Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Musical, is back in a brand-new production -- and it's louder, faster, and funnier than ever! This uproarious original comedy is set during Broadway's Golden Age of the 1950s. The hapless songwriting team of Howard Katz and Murray Finkel finally get their big break... when they are kidnapped by the KGB, taken to Russia, and forced to fix the world's worst communist propaganda musical. Will they choose fame or freedom?

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10010


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?


It's a mystery to me why Iron Curtain, a highly polished revival of Prospect Theater Company's hilarious 2006 hit about two song-and-dance men conscripted to Moscow during the Cold War, should be in the Baruch Performing Arts Center -- and not, say, Broadway.

There's some irony implicit there -- and designer Brian Prather rolls with the space's physical limitations to suggest the strictures of socialist agitprop. Choreographer Christine O'Grady and costumer Sidney Shannon play along, creating a rib-cracker of a proletarian dance number which features a "wheat ballerina," en pointe, trying to elude the pointy end of a pitchfork.

Later, at the other aesthetic extreme, the team -- under Ca[...]


Reviewed by Sandy MacDonald on Nov 11, 2011

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