New York City
The George Street Playhouse opens its 2008-2009 season with Joe DiPietro and David Bryan’s new musical The Toxic Avenger, based on the 1980 film of the same name. John Rando directs.
The musical focuses on Melvin Ferd the Third. After being tossed into a vat of radioactive goo, he becomes The Toxic Avenger, a New Jersey superhero who is determined to right wrongs, beat up bullies, and seduce his lady love, Sarah the Blind Librarian.