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It’s cabaret on steroids. It’s your music collection come alive. It’s all the things you see in your head when you hear the music. It’s the Badass Record Collection, an open-ended series of musical extravaganzas, featuring live musical tributes to great composers, performers, and genres of 20th and 21st Century pop music! The inaugural entry in this new series of musical extravaganzas from indie theater impresario Frank Cwiklik and his acclaimed DMTheatrics, TAKING LIBERTIES, is a tribute to one of the most acclaimed songwriters and performers of the past thirty years, the legendary Elvis Costello.
The agonies and ecstasies of love, lust, and life, the ups and downs of friendships, relationships, and marriage, and the exquisite pains of heartbreak, all are beautifully portrayed in this selection of great compositions by music legend Elvis Costello. This show has been carefully curated by DMTheatrics’ director and founder Frank Cwiklik, acclaimed by NYTheatre.com, Backstage, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, New York Press, and many, many more as one of the preeminent theater artists working in indie theater, whose brash, eclectic style has influenced directors and designers both off and on Broadway, and whose singular vision has brought OOBR-award winning productions to sellout audiences, including Sugarbaby, the Vegas-themed Antony and Cleopatra, and the infamous Bitch Macbeth.
Reteaming Cwiklik with longtime conspirator Adam Swiderski and recent DMT mainstay Becky Byers, TAKING LIBERTIES acts as both a history of the music of Costello, and the performance, musical, and visual styles of the past 50 years of entertainment, all performed with delicious gusto by Orgy of the Dead! star Carolyn Demisch, and a group of performers new to the DMT stage: Adam Enright, Aaron Fuksa, Colleen Horan, Elaine Moran, Evan Toth, and Brianna Tyson. Together, this powerhouse cast presents a live musical performance that is touching and invigorating, exciting and moving, hilariously funny and deeply disturbing – all that music can be, and all uniquely theatrical.
July 9th through 18th 2009, Thursday nights 10:30 PM, Saturday and Sunday nights 11 PM
Devised, Produced, and Directed by Frank Cwiklik
Musical Director, Adam Swiderski
Chereography By Becky Byers
Co-Producer, Michele Schlossberg
The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (one block from the Lorimer L stop and the Metropolitan G stop)
Tickets -
http://bricktheater.com/