Dumb Luck

press release: Music Theatre of Madison, a small professional theater company finishing its twelfth season, will present its second-ever Festival of New Musicals from October 5-November 2, 2017. The Festival, which contains three musicals still in development, will feature Madison actors reading and singing the material, followed by talkbacks with audiences to be shared with the composers. All performances will take place at The Brink Lounge, 701 E. Washington Ave, in the back event space.  There is a suggested donation of $10 per person at the door.  Food and drinks will also be available for purchase. Reservations are recommended and can be made at www.mtmadison.com/festival-of-new-musicals.

DUMB LUCK (October 5) DUMB LUCK tells the hilarious, heartwarming story of inept bandit Elmer McCurdy, whose botched train robbery and unclaimed corpse led him to stardom.  Directed by Mark Snowden, with music direction by Tyler Pimm, and featuring Desmond Hawkins, Kelsey Anne Johnson, Owen Metzger, and Bart Terrell.

THE PUPPET (October 19), written by Madison's own Mark Wurzelbacher, is a Gilbert and Sullivan-style imagining of the 2020 election. 

MEDEA (November 2) is a rock version of the classic tragedy, filling in the early parts of Medea and Jason's story, with a radical feminist twist. 

The Festival has a suggested donation of $10 per person.  Whatever you can contribute is much appreciated and offsets the cost of compensating our artists.