Open the Dark Door
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 8, 2009
Closed Oct 17, 2009

Playing at
American Theatre of Actors Chernuchin Theatre

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FESTIVAL INFORMATION:

This show is part of the NYMF 2009 Festival.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

When the local executioner's son, Skip, falls in love with the rebellious Luna, he and the other upstanding residents of Mortland, USA are shattered by a crisis of faith. Dangerous family secrets and festive beheadings are the norm in this haunting and darkly comic indie-rock musical examining a town crippled by fear and troubled by its past.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

American Theatre of Actors Chernuchin Theatre

New York, NY 10019

This off Broadway space has three theaters on the premises: the 45-seat Beckmann, 140-seat Chernuchin and the 65-seat Sargent.

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

[Ed. Note: This is the second in a series of TM review roundups of shows in the sixth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival.]

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The title song that opens the appealing new musical F#@cking Up Everything, now at the 45th Street Theatre, has a raucous chorus that makes you think this is going to be a real indie rock musical. But then the song turns into a litany of the many ways to use the f-word, suddenly sounding less like rock and more like a musical theater patter song -- albeit one firmly grounded in the gleefully foul-mouthed South Park era.

And if you think that Jake (Neil Haskell), the grungy, good-looking guy singing that song is going to be our main character, [...]

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Reviewed by Brooke Pierce, Andy Propst, Patrick Lee on Oct 14, 2009