“It puts the fun back in government funding!”
“The finale song “Apple Pie America” is a brash in-your-face depiction of ... Richard Nixon, baseball, football, Boy Scouts, guns and even Dreamgirls all wrapped in a banner of red, white and blue.”
I’d like to see your brains and your blood on a chopping block.
I’d like to see your whole sex swimming in a sea of blood like my little bird.
BAILOUT THE MUSICAL is a “performance piece about a performance piece that is not a performance piece” Will wrote with The Wreckio Ensemble in 2009.
Set in the present-future of all dystopian stories, economic collapse has ravaged Off-Off-Broadway, and the only hope for experimental theater lies in the possibility of government bailout money. But the feds intend to fund only musicals—cheerful, apolitical musicals at that.
This rag-tag team of performance artists (and a mime) have to learn to turn their postmodern, Hamletmachine-esque ode to abortion into a toe-tapping tuner about bland, traditional American values.
“Sellout, Louise!”
“With smiles plastered on their faces you can see they resent forsaking their true art just for the sake of money.”
Performed in the late Under St. Marks theatre, critics agreed it was “love letter to what downtown theatre is all about: a group of people putting together a show the way they want to do it.”