| TEETH Off-Broadway Run Opens Halloween Night at New World Stages | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 04:13 pm EDT 07/15/24 | |
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| TEETH OPENS ITS OFF-BROADWAY ENGAGEMENT AT NEW WORLD STAGES ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT (New York, NY) Yellow Sound Label, Mark Gordon Pictures, Mickey Liddell & Pete Shilaimon, in association with Playwrights Horizons, have announced the original cast recording of the smash-hit musical Teeth is now available to stream on all major music platforms. The physical cd will be available in stores on August 30. Based on the screenplay by Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth features book and music by Anna K. Jacobs (POP!), book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award winner Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop), direction by Obie Award winner Sarah Benson (Fairview) with choreography by Raja Feather Kelly (Lempicka). Following its sold-out, extended world premiere at Playwrights Horizons earlier this year, the 2024 Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and Lortel Award nominated musical is set to open at New World Stages on Halloween night, October 31, 2024. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on July 26. The Teeth original cast album is produced and mixed by Michael Croiter, co-produced by Julie McBride and Anna K. Jacobs, executive-produced by Mark Gordon and Mickey Liddell & Pete Shilaimon, and music-supervised by McBride, with music direction by Patrick Sulken and orchestrations by Kris Kukul. Teeth is a sharp tale of revenge and transformation that tears through a culture of shame and repressed desire one delightfully unhinged song at a time. The musical follows Dawn O'Keefe, an evangelical Christian teen struggling to be an exemplar of purity amongst her community of fellow Promise Keeper Girls. Her stepbrother, Brad - alienated by his repressive upbringing in the community led by his fanatical Pastor father and intrigued by the online camaraderie of the Truthseeker men's support group—is haunted by an indelible incident from his and Dawn's past. As Dawn's desires become tested and twisted by the men in her life, she discovers a deadly secret not even she understands: when men violate her, her body bites back—literally. Crackling with irrepressible desire and ancient rage, Teeth is a dark horror comedy conjuring the legend of one girl whose sexual curse may also be her salvation. Garnering considerable acclaim upon its sold-out, twice extended bow in February 2024 at Playwrights Horizons, Sara Holdren of Vulture wrote, "Teeth feels like the musical equivalent of driving a spike-covered Mad Max car across the desert while getting chased by war boys on their way to Valhalla. It's a rush—and it's also a pitch-dark examination of the very real chokehold of Christofascist ideology in America." Adam Feldman of Time Out NY awarded Teeth four stars, Zachary Stewart of Theatermania described it as "a brilliant must-see musical," and Brittani Samuel, reviewing for The Washington Post, deemed it "a brazen, unique, cackle-worthy slice of musical theater." In addition to critical acclaim, the musical has already received multiple honors including four Outer Critics Circle Award nominations (Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical, Outstanding Book of a Musical: Anna K. Jacobs & Michael R. Jacobs, Outstanding Lead Performer: Alyse Alan Louis, Outstanding Costume Design: Enver Chakartash), two Drama League Award nominations (Outstanding Production of a Musical, Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Sarah Benson), four Drama Desk Award nominations (Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical: Steven Pasquale, Outstanding Lyrics: Michael R. Jackson, Outstanding Book of a Musical) and four Lucille Lortel Awards (Outstanding Musical,Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical: Steven Pasquale, Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical: Alyse Alan Louis, Outstanding Choreography: Raja Feather Kelly). Tickets will go on sale on July 26, 2024. For more updates on the show, visit teeththemusical.com. @teeth_nyc (IG) @teeth_nyc (X) About the Artists Michael R. Jackson (Book and Lyrics) is one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2022. His Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle winning A Strange Loop (which had its 2019 world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in association with Page 73 Productions) received 11 Tony nominations in 2022, and was called "a full-on laparoscopy of the heart, soul, and loins" as well as a "gutsy, jubilantly anguished musical with infectious melodies" by Ben Brantley for The New York Times. In The New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham wrote, "To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost real, then draws another hand, which returns the favor." In addition to A Strange Loop, he also wrote book, music and lyrics for White Girl in Danger. Awards and associations include: a New Professional Theatre Festival Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, an ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, a Whiting Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, a Fred Ebb Award, a Windham-Campbell Prize, a Dramatist Guild Fellowship. He is an alum of Page 73's Interstate 73 Writers Group. Anna K. Jacobs (Book and Music, Album Co-Producer) is a Jonathan Larson and Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award-winning composer, lyricist, and book writer. In addition to Teeth, her stage musicals include POP! (Yale Rep, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Studio Theatre, etc.; book/lyrics by Maggie-Kate Coleman), Anytown (George Street Playhouse; book by Jim Jack), Harmony, Kansas (Diversionary Theatre; book/lyrics by Bill Nelson), Echo (Musical Theatre Factory), and Stella and the Moon Man (Sydney Theatre Company/Theatre of Image; play by Richard Tulloch, co-composed with Adrian Kelly). She also contributed music and lyrics to the multi-composer works, Witnesses (California Center for the Arts) and Letters to the President (Cooper Union), and penned the screenplay for The Real Gemma Jordan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), which she is now adapting into a stage musical with composer-lyricist, Rob Rokicki. Anna and her playwright-collaborator, Anna Ziegler, are currently working on A House Without Windows, a new musical about the life and disappearance of child prodigy author, Barbara Newhall Follett, which was commissioned by Barbara Whitman Productions and Grove Entertainment, and recently seen as part of the Goodspeed Musicals 2022 Festival of New Musicals. She is also writing the book for a new musical adaptation of Moana for Disney Cruise Line Entertainment, featuring a score by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa'i. Sarah Benson (Director) is an Obie award-winning theater director based in New York City. Recent credits include: Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview (Soho Rep, TFANA & Berkeley Rep) the play won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Benson was nominated for a Drama Desk for direction; Suzan-Lori Parks' In The Blood (Signature Theater). At Soho Rep: Richard Maxwell's Samara with music by Steve Earle; César Alvarez and The Lisps' Futurity (ART, Walker Arts Center and in New York with Ars Nova) Callaway Award; Lortel Award for Best Musical; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins An Octoroon (Soho Rep & TFANA); Lucas Hnath's A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney; Sarah Kane's Blasted (OBIE award, Drama Desk nomination); David Adjmi's Elective Affinities featuring Zoe Caldwell (site-specific). Benson also directed the award-winning Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical (Townhall) for the 2019 Super bowl. Upcoming: César Alvarez's Noise. Benson is a Vilcek Foundation awardee and moved to New York from London on a Fulbright. She has been a Director of Soho Rep since 2008 and is currently serving her last season. During Benson's tenure the theater has garnered fifteen OBIE awards and the Drama Desk Award for Sustained Artistic Excellence. Raja Feather Kelly (Choreographer) is a choreographer and director, and the Artistic Director of the feath3r theory (TF3T), a dance-theatre-media company. Kelly has created 18 evening-length premieres with the feath3r theory, most recently UGLY Part 3: BLUE (Chelsea Factory) and the forthcoming The Absolute Future (NYU Skirball). He has choreographed the Broadway productions SUFFS (Music Box Theatre), Lempicka (Longacre Theatre), and the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre). Kelly choreographs for Off-Broadway theatre with frequent collaborators like Jackson, Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and Sarah Benson. Recent works include White Girl in Danger (Second Stage Kiser Theater), Bunny Bunny (UC San Diego), We're Gonna Die (Second Stage Theater), and Scenes for an Ending for the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. He has received numerous accolades, including a Princeton Arts Fellowship (2023-2025), three Princess Grace Awards, an Obie Award, an Outer Critics Circle honor for choreography for the Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning musical A Strange Loop, a Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, a Creative Capital award, a Breakout Award for choreography from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SCDF), the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography, Dance Magazine's Harkness Promise Award, and the SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award finalist for outstanding choreography of Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA, and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). Kris Kukul (Orchestrations). Beetlejuice The Musical (Music Supervisor, Orchestrator; Broadway/Worldwide), Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, (Arrangements/Vocal Music Supervisor), Michael Cassel Group's You're the Voice. Other recent work: Sing Street (Huntington), The Beautiful Lady (La MaMa), In The Green (Lincoln Center), David Byrne's Joan of Arc (Public), Michael Kimmel and Lauren Pritchard's Songbird, Head Over Heels (Pasadena Playhouse), Elizabeth Swados' Runaways (New York's City Center), and The Last Goodbye (Old Globe). For 10 seasons, resident music director Williamstown Theatre Festival. Julie McBride (Album Co-Producer, Music Supervisor) is currently the music director for Moulin Rouge! on Broadway. Other Broadway credits: SpongeBobSquarePants! (music director), INK at Manhattan Theatre Club (music director), Head Over Heels (music director), Pretty Woman (associate conductor), Amazing Grace (associate conductor), Finding Neverland (assistant conductor). Off-Broadway/regional: A Transparent Musical (Mark Taper Forum), Unknown Soldier (Playwrights Horizons), Row (Williamstown), Next to Normal (Second Stage), These Paper Bullets! (Yale Rep, Atlantic Theatre Company), Deathless (Goodspeed), Miss You Like Hell (La Jolla, Public Theatre), Daddy Long Legs (11 regional productions). |
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