Disaster!
May 4-19, 2018
A 1970s Disaster Movie…Musical!
Adults: $25
Students & Seniors: $20
Written by Seth Rudestsky & Jack Plotnick
Concept created by Seth Rudetsky & Drew Geraci; Additional material by Drew Geraci
Choregraphed and Produced by Lauren Nicole Sherwood
Music Direction by Jessica Lopa
Directed by Joel Fenster
Seth Barkan as Tony Delvecchio
Stephen DiRocco as Maury Summers
Andy Dooley as Ben & Lisa Noelle
Dainelle Testori-Gartner as Sister Mary Downy
Paige Goodman as Marianne Wilson
Paul Goodman as Ted Scheider
Jerry Kranz as Chef/Taxi Driver/Ensemble
Dominick Lettera as Jake/Wealthy Husband/Ensemble
Ruth Lettera as Wealthy Wife/Ensemble
Ellen Krinick Porto as Shirley Summers
Candice Sisbarro as Jackie Noelle
LaMarr Taylor as Levora Verona
Bill Warncke as Chad
...and Jennifer Ju and Kellen Schult play everyone else
Disaster! is a new musical straight from Broadway, featuring some of the most unforgettable songs of the ’70s: “Knock on Wood,” “Hooked on a Feeling,” “Sky High,” “I Am Woman” and “Hot Stuff” are just a few of the 34 scintillating hits in this hilarious musical comedy.
It’s 1979, and New York’s hottest A-listers are lining up for the opening of a floating casino/discotheque. Also attending is a faded disco star, a sexy nightclub singer with her eleven-year-old twins, a disaster expert, a feminist reporter, an older couple with a secret, a pair of young guys who are looking for ladies, an untrustworthy businessman and a nun with a gambling addiction. What begins as a night of boogie fever quickly changes to panic as the ship succumbs to multiple disasters - earthquakes, tidal waves and infernos. OH MY! As the night turns into day, everyone struggles to survive and, quite possibly, repair the love that they’ve lost… or to at least escape the killer rats.
Audiences and critics alike are wild for this hilarious homage to the era of bell-bottoms, platform shoes and the hustle. With larger-than-life characters, snappy dialogue, and some of the most recognizable songs of the ’70s, Disaster! will have you dancing in your seats and rolling in the aisles.
Disaster! is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).