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Seth Rudetsky's Disaster
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 22, 2012
Closed Mar 25, 2012

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http://www.DisasterMusical.com

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Were you like Seth Rudetsky in the '70's? Not just overweight with a Jewfro, but also obsessed with Poseidon Adventure, Airport '75, Earthquake, The Swarm etc...and obsessed with Casey Kasem's top 40 countdown? Didn't you wish there were some way they could combine? Well, now they have... in Disaster! Disaster! is a 1970's disaster movie musical, written by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick, featuring your favorite songs and disasters from the '70s.

The show starts on a summer night in 1979. All the hottest New York City A-Listers are putting on their platform shoes and polyester disco shirts and heading to the grand opening of Manhattan's first floating casino and discotheque. Little do they know that their night of boogie fever, Farrah Fawcett-feathered-hair and Bella Abzug hats will turn into....Disaster!!!! The best 70's Songs! The biggest 70's Disasters! Disaster!

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Triad Theatre
158 W 72nd St
New York, NY 10023


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Spoofing, to be effective, requires a deep-seated knowledge of -- and better yet, fondness for -- the target genre. As it happens, Seth Rudetsky, besides being a savant regarding all things Broadway, can also boast an encyclopedic grasp of 1970s pop-culture kitsch, and in his new chamber musical Seth Rudetsky's Disaster!, playing Sunday nights at the Triad, he and writing partner Jack Plotnick have exhumed every last cinematic/phonographic catastrophe from the vaults, while cleverly interpolating several novel crises of their own invention.



This jukebox extravaganza, featuring a four-man rock band and sixteen antic actors, takes place during the grand opening of "Pier 54," a floating cas[...]


Reviewed by Sandy MacDonald on Jan 31, 2012

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