If you’re looking for a musical that’s been called “exuberantly silly” (The New York Times), “hilariously funny” (New York Post) and was billed as “the feel-good musical of the year” when it first premiered, then get ready for Sinclair Theater’s version of “The Toxic Avenger.”
Sinclair’s Theater Company will be presenting an outrageous musical comedy with an environmental twist, “The Toxic Avenger,” in Blair Hall from April 7 to April 15.
Chris Harmon will direct this rock musical with musical direction by David McKibben. It will star Thomas Puckett, Courtney Kakac, Sha-lemar Davis, Elisha Chamberlin, Elisa Fuentes and Justin Lampkins.
The show, which deviates some from the original film, is about a meek, mild-mannered “geek” and aspiring earth scientist named Melvin Ferd the Third who lives in Tromaville, New Jersey. Tromaville has been plagued with barrels of toxic waste appearing all over town, polluting the environment. Melvin vows to find out who is behind this, but many, including his friend and crush, blind town librarian Sarah, think he’s crazy.
“The Toxic Avenger,” which originally premiered in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 2008 before being moved to Off-Broadway and then a U.S. tour, was written by Joe DiPietro and Bon Jovi’s David Bryan (who both also co-wrote the Tony Award winning “Memphis”), and is based on the 1984 cult classic film of the same name, which was created and directed by Lloyd Kaufman.
Sinclair Theater will be showing “The Toxic Avenger” from April 7 to April 15. They are describing it as “A toxic love story with an environmental twist based on cult indie films! Not suitable for children or the faint of heart.”
The play follows “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “A Song for Coretta,” which the theater put on earlier in the year. At the end of the Spring semester and beginning of the Summer semester, the department will have a “Moving Spirits” dance concert that will be directed by Rodney Veal
Tickets for “The Toxic Avenger” are $18 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. The two weekday performances are $10. There will also be two American Sign Language interpreted shows.
Jacob Kusnerik
Intern
