World’s First Bad Musicals Festival

World’s First Bad Musicals Festival contains wildly entertaining pieces filled with the following: bad language, bad jokes, bad puns, politically incorrect material, political satire, even plays written to mock bad plays. Playwrights from all over the country and even Canada submitted material and there was a very competitive selection process.

List of Plays

Something to Offend Everyone

Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun. – 4/20, 4/28, 5/6, 5/14

Tamponville by CJ Critt & Ralph Cole, Jr., directed by Hans Friedrichs
My Mouse is Not a Rat By Don Chan Mark, directed by Melba LaRose
Best Little Crackhouse in Philly (or… Crackwhore…the Musical!) by Stan Peal, directed by Melba LaRose

Out of this World
Fri., Sat., Sun., Thurs. – 4/21, 4/29, 5/7, 5/11

We Met the Space People by Con Chapman
Virgo Ascending by Fran Handman, directed by Robert W. McMaster
Finding the Wonder by Gwynne Watkins, lyrics Betina Hershey, music Denver Casado, directed by Nick Fondulis
Love.com by Chris Widney, music David Christian Azarow

It Ain’t Kansas Anymore

Sat., Sun., Thurs., Fri. – 4/22, 4/30, 5/4, 5/12

Desiree of Beverly Hills by Peter Morris, music Mat Eisenstein, directed by Rob Cardazone
The Beautiful Brown Danube by Charles Lupia, music Johann Strauss, Jr., directed by Shana Soloman
The Sound of Wizards by K. Knapp (from Canada), directed by Jack Dyville

Sex, Thugs, and Rock ‘n Roll

Sun., Thurs., Fri., Sat. – 4/23, 4/27, 5/5, 5/13

Music is my Fist (an Audience with the Pope of Pop, Nicholas Albert Sobella) by Bill Squier, Scott Blakeman, Robert Taub, music Jerold Goldstein, directed by Michael Shiffer
The Devil’s Music: The True History of Rock N’ Roll (A CAUTIONARY TALE) by Brock Mahan & Elliott Kalan , music by Keith Burgun, directed by Gustavo Alonso