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This girl-loves-ghoul rock and roll Off Broadway musical is set in
the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down
by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen
for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the
romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste
dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee's heart.
He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee
to the prom. The principal orders him t
5m, 5f (with doubling) / Ints. This girl loves ghoul rock and roll
Off Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi
High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal.
Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family
pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his
motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and
determined to reclaim Toffee's heart. He still wants to graduate,
but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. The principal
orders him to drop dead while a scandal reporter seizes on him as
the freak du jour. History comes to his rescue while a tuneful
selection of original songs in the style of 50s hits keeps the
action rocking across the stage. "A blast.... Slick fun for the
whole nuclear family." - N.Y. Daily News "Stays safely on the sunny
side of the macabre.... A gentle send up of the teenage romance
films ... given a radioactive glow of novelty." - N.Y. Times "If
you like Grease ... you will] like Zombie Prom." N.Y. Daily News
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Riders shuffle into the London Tube more than four million times a
day. Danny the Demon was among them, back in Maggie Thatcher's
Brave New 1980s. Always late, he would race down the stairs, guitar
banging his shoulder as he leapt off every third step, then jump
the barrier without paying. He wasn't a rider, but a singer -
begging for money from the commuting throng. Welcome to the
punked-out world of the London Underground's music-making buskers.
They could stop you in your tracks with delight - or revulsion. Not
exactly savoury characters: drinking and drugging, squatting in
abandoned houses, squabbling over prime spots, dodging the cops.
They would wake up broke, earn enough to get brained, and wake up
broke again. This slice of life below the streets wasn't in the
London guidebooks, nor on your standard tour. There was Olga the
Swedish Sorceress, turning tricks to forget. Shy Saxophone George,
entranced by his own solos. Lora Buchanan, the voice of restraint -
when sober. Skinhead Charlie, Beryl the Peril. All hoping for a
state of ecstasy, mostly settling for a state of excess. Danny
himself only wanted rock stardom. "And the first thing I'll do," he
promised himself, "is get my teeth fixed." Not tripping out, not
our Danny. Today buskers win licenses and book spots in advance,
all very tidy. Back then, they balanced wit with delusion,
community with desolation. Mrs. Thatcher promised opportunity for
those who could seize it. But Danny and his mates in 1980s London -
basically honorable but utterly debauched - could barely mind the
gap.
The Dempsey saga continues with the story of one man's love/hate
relationship with New York and its varied inhabitants.
Matchbook continues John Dempsey's unique vision of life on the
edge of reason. It could also portray life on the verge of success,
but John politely tasks the reader for interpretations. The truth
likely resides with his sources, but in true journalistic fashion,
John is protecting his sources (or maybe himself). The disquieting
yet amusing quality of Dempsey's work is that readers often
recognize someone they know, or even themselves in his stories.
Therein lies Dempsey's talent; the ability to draw readers into a
story that rekindles memories of the way things were, or the way
readers always hoped things would never turn out.
Everyday life through the eyes or imagination (reader's
discretionary choice) of one man struggling to succeed in love,
life and business.
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