The Big Bang
by Boyd Graham, Jed Feuer

Name: The Big Bang
Brand: Boyd Graham
SKU: 9780573627545

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Highlights

Male

75 mins Present Day Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Awards & Recognition

National Alliance of Musical Theatre-Festival Musicals

Synopsis

Performed by its wacky creators off-Broadway, this frenetic entertainment is long on shtick and historical hilarity.

It is staged as a backers’ audition for an $83.5 million, 12-hour stage history of the world from creation to the present.

Eighteen side-splitting numbers portraying Adam and Eve, Attila the Hun, the building of the pyramids, Julius Caesar and Columbus, among others, give potential investors a taste of the impending extravaganza.

In the process, the opulent Park Avenue apartment “borrowed” for the occasion is trashed as the two snatch its furnishings to create makeshift costumes while singing and clowning their way through inventive recreations of the past, stopping occasionally for a little supplicating show biz patter.

Press Reviews

"Fueled by the same ‘let’s put on a show’ energy that has inspired countless MGM movies and real life ambitions, but with a distinctly irreverent twist. In some of the zippiest 80 minutes you will spend in the theatre, our two aspiring Broadway Babies give us an amalgam of historical events, from the creation of the world (‘One Big Bang’) to the Garden of Eden (‘Free Food and Frontal Nudity’), through the Egyptians and Roman Empire right up through Woodstock and a laundry list of 20th-century names and events."
— Chicago Stage & Screen