Presenting THE WORLD PREMIERE @ FRINGEnyc 2016
That's MISS FITS, to YOU!
"A musical extravaganza ... a glittering paean to a polygender counterculture." NY Times
"A loving tribute to drag, friendship and love." Theatre Is Easy
"A dozen tour-de-force queer performers of every stripe." Gay City News
That's MISS FITS, to YOU!
"A musical extravaganza ... a glittering paean to a polygender counterculture." NY Times
"A loving tribute to drag, friendship and love." Theatre Is Easy
"A dozen tour-de-force queer performers of every stripe." Gay City News
That's MISS FITS, to YOU! - a queer mystery-musical - tells a magical tale of trans-poly-gender awareness - tracing the story of MISS FITS, a spirit guide, who has mysteriously disappeared on the eve of the annual holiday extravaganza.
Retracing her life through the Stonewall Riots to Rosa Park's Bus Boycott, the investigation into MISS FITS' life reveals the liberation spirit alive in each of us.
The musical extravaganza taps all the gender-bending arts from lip-sync homage t0 live drag extravaganza!
Of deeper poignance, In the 11th hour ballad - Today Is For Heroes - MISS FITS appears to Rosa Parks urging her to "plant herself down" on the bus in Montgomery Alabama, 1955.
And for the first Act curtain, Judy Garland leads the Stonewall riots singing - I Am Your Angel Baby - on the night of her funeral in 1969 Greenwich Village.
Numbers like Drag Race sends the tour-de-force cast into fabulous flurry. And dual-identity rages in Secret Keeping.
The twisting tale will leave you singing with liberation spirit! As Radical Faeries rattle your fashion!
Get ready America, as MISS FITS arrives on the stage!
Retracing her life through the Stonewall Riots to Rosa Park's Bus Boycott, the investigation into MISS FITS' life reveals the liberation spirit alive in each of us.
The musical extravaganza taps all the gender-bending arts from lip-sync homage t0 live drag extravaganza!
Of deeper poignance, In the 11th hour ballad - Today Is For Heroes - MISS FITS appears to Rosa Parks urging her to "plant herself down" on the bus in Montgomery Alabama, 1955.
And for the first Act curtain, Judy Garland leads the Stonewall riots singing - I Am Your Angel Baby - on the night of her funeral in 1969 Greenwich Village.
Numbers like Drag Race sends the tour-de-force cast into fabulous flurry. And dual-identity rages in Secret Keeping.
The twisting tale will leave you singing with liberation spirit! As Radical Faeries rattle your fashion!
Get ready America, as MISS FITS arrives on the stage!
TEAM.• Director: Jonathan Warman. "The director, Jonathan Warman, has encouraged a flamboyant presentational style that emphasizes coherence over flair."
- Jason Zinoman, New York Times • General Manager: Steve Asher, a 25 year NYC theatre veteran, previously as Executive Director of the LAByrinth Theater Company and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company • Choreographer Jonathan Warman. Additional Choreogrpahy: Jonathan Mendez, Summer Pilaf Minerva, & Danny Durr • Music Director: Terri Gorgone • Stage Manager: Vanna Richardson • Composer, Writer. Todd Tif Fernandez, pictured below. “After I wrote MISS FITS, I ended up in Africa living in fear as a gay man. Traumatized, gay rights became my life, and I got 250 groups to take the Equality Pledge demanding full federal equality, which is now our movement’s federal goal: The 2015 Equality Act. I later realized MISS FITS was guiding my life to activism, and now to the stage we go!”
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PERFORMERSStarring
⭑ Ursula Anderman ⭑ ⭑ Kimberlyn Avon* ⭑ ⭑ Walter Battistini ⭑ ⭑ Christopher Borg* ⭑ ⭑ Paloma Carrera ⭑ ⭑ Dusty Lynn Childers ⭑ ⭑ Todd Tif Fernandez ⭑ ⭑Kevin Garcia ⭑ ⭑ Brandon Leonard ⭑ ⭑ Michael Lynch* ⭑ ⭑ Darren Polito ⭑ ⭑ Michael Teger ⭑ ⭑ Eduardo Uribe ⭑ ⭑ Dennis Williams ⭑ *Actors Equity Click for PHOTOS & BIOS |
MUSICGet a sneak-preview of this world premier music.
Listen to all the composer demos here. Show performers will be different voices! |
SHOW TIMESFIVE Big Performances!
SAT Aug 13.2016 12 Noon - 2:45 (after party) MON Aug 15. 9 pm -11:45 FRI Aug 19. 8:45 pm - 11:30 MON Aug 22. 4 pm - 6:45 SAT Aug 27. 2:30 pm- 5:15 SOHO PLAYHOUSE 15 Vandam Street, NYC TICKETS (onsale NOW): www.FringeNYC.com Company/Media Contact: Steve Asher, 718-290-7234, [email protected] or [email protected]. PRESS RELEASE.
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