Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
May 2009: Public Theater Lab Series
A fast-paced entertainment that takes a sharp, irreverent look at America’s seventh president, Andrew Jackson.
This satirical epic reveals questions around the country we live in and the leaders we choose.
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Michael Friedman
Justin Levine
Danny Mefford
Anne Davison and Mike Sablone
Donyale Werle
Justin Townsend
Emily Rebholz
Bart Fasbender
Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum
Elizabeth Moreau
Alaina Taylor
Cast:David Axelrod, James Barry, Darren Goldstein, Greg Hildreth, Jeff Hiller, Lisa Joyce, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Bryce Pinkham, Maria Elena Ramirez, Kate Roberts, Ben Steinfeld, Ben Walker, Colleen Werthmann
January-February 2008: Kirk Douglas Theater, Center Theatre Group
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Michael Friedman
Gabriel Kahane
Kelly Devine
Mike Sablone and Anne Davison
Robert Brill
Jeff Croiter
Emily Rebholz
Bart Fasbender
Jacob Pinholster
Ian Unterman
David Franklin
Cast:Anjali Bhimani, Will Collyer, Diane Davis, Erin Felgar, Will Greenberg, Greg Hildreth, Brian Hostenske, Adam O’Byrne, Matt Rocheleau, Ben Steinfeld, Ian Unterman, Ben Walker, Taylor Wilcox
May 2007: New 42nd Street Studios (workshop produced by CTG)
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Gabriel Kahane
Kelly Devine
Mike Sablone and Anne Davison
Cast:Sebastian Arcelus, Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Kevin Del Aguila, Darren Goldstein, Greg Hildreth, Jeff Hiller, Maria Elena Ramirez, Kate Roberts, Jeanine Serralles, Ben Steinfeld, Robbie Sublett, Ian Unterman, Ben Walker
August 2006: Williamstown Theatre Festival (workshop production)
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Cast:Anthony Carrigan, Kristen Connolly, Andre Harris, Alex Henrikson, Chris Henry, Rob O’Hare, Ben Rappaport, Kate Roberts, Charlie Semine, Taylor Wilcox
New York Daily News
“Bloody entertaining!”
The New Yorker
“Giddy with intelligence… a smart, vulgar, comic-book romp through history.“
New York Times>br>“Delightful… Poised between deadpan wonder and frat-house humor. Bloody may be a hoot, but it’s also a primal holler.”
Curtain Up
“The most fun I've had at a play this year!”
Backstage
“A silly-smart entertainment that feels like a fifth-grade pageant hatched under the tutelage of The Harvard Lampoon and composed by Spinal Tap.”
New York Post
“Bloody good! Anarchic joy and cross-cultural mayhem… Offers a coherent view of the way American politics cranks out leaders who are as charismatic as they are opportunistic.”
Bloomberg
“Rough, raucous, and raunchy! A wholly iconoclastic burlesque with emo rock music and humor that goes for the jugular.”
Variety
“Down at the Public, this hot little show is putting on one hell of a wake for a fallen hero”
Theatermania
“Remarkably inventive and often hilarious… A dizzying post-modern approach to American history.”
TalkinBroadway.com
“Librettist-director Timbers is the artistic director of Les Freres Corbusier and Michael Friedman is the house composer of The Civilians, and the uniting of these two downtown titans on a project of this audacity is a match made in theatre utopia. Timbers’s knack for rampantly visionary entertainment and Friedman’s grip on pungent social commentary combine to make something deeper, richer, and hotter than either has previously devised alone, all within a searing context that commands your attention and demands your assent to its absurdities.”
Backstage West
“A wildly exhilarating theatrical ride! The historical tomfoolery of a zany Monty Python spoof while conjuring an edgy seriocomic irony that recalls Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins. It forges its own blazingly original artistic identity, pulsating with wit, melody, energy, and dazzling theatricality.”
Broadway World
“Vibrant and refreshing, giving a much-needed facelift to musical theater… Revolutionary… The primal scream of musical theater’s next generation.”
Theatermania
“An explosive, soot-black comedy! A wild ride that will have audiences laughing until they cry, and then crying for shame of laughing.”
Los Angeles Times
“Goofy, daring… The product of sensibilities shaped by the topical ironies of Jon Stewart and the profane zaniness of “South Park”… Imagine Avenue Q with a master’s degree in American history. Or Brecht for people who secretly find him a bore.”
Orange County Register
“A bloody good time! Provocative and thoughtful theater… Multi-layered – a scattershot mélange of styles and tones that reexamines the Jackson myth with surprisingly sober intelligence.”
LA Weekly
“Pick of the Week! Campy and politically snide… “Revisionist history” doesn’t even begin to describe this wild and wicked take on the life and times of the seventh president. The acrobatic ensemble, like everything else under Timbers’ manic direction, runs with the timing of a giant pinball game.”