5th Avenue Theatre Replaces Broadway-Bound SOMETHING ROTTEN! with JASPER IN DEADLAND

The 5th Avenue Theatre has announced an exhilarating replacement for the Broadway-bound Something Rotten! in its 2014/15 season: Jasper in Deadland, a high-octane new musical with a book by Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster and music and lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver. Issaquah native and friend of The 5th Brandon Ivie will direct.

An electrifying new pop/rock musical in the spirit of RENT and Spring Awakening, Jasper in Deadland takes audiences on a mythological thrill-ride through the underworld. As teenage Jasper faces gods and monsters in search of his best friend (and true love) Agnes, he learns to let go of the demons of daily life and embrace the music within. With a pulsating contemporary score and vibrant roots in ancient Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Norse legends and fables, this spine-tingling, hair-raising, heart-stirring show explores what it means to be truly alive.

"I could not be more pleased to have this dynamic new musical as the new addition to our season," said 5th Avenue Theatre Executive Producer and Artistic Director David Armstrong. "Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster are two of the most exciting young talents working in the theater today and The 5th has a very successful track record in providing emerging theater artists like these with a large scale playing field in which they can thrill and amaze us. What RENT is to La Bohème, this show is to the Orpheus myths and legends."

Jasper in Deadland plays April 30-May 24, 2015 (press opening May 14) at The 5th Avenue Theatre (1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101). Tickets (starting at $29) may be purchased starting January 16, 2015 at www.5thavenue.org, by phone at 206-625-1900, or at the Box Office at 1308 5th Avenue in Downtown Seattle.

Ticketholders to Something Rotten! at The 5th Avenue Theatre will have their tickets exchanged automatically into equivalent seats for performances of Jasper in Deadland, and will also receive a voucher in the mail to see Something Rotten! on Broadway before September 7, 2015.

Jasper in Deadland, a musical on the shortlist for the 2015/16 season, was a recent addition to The 5th Avenue Theatre's New Works Program, recently undergoing a developmental table read in the theater's rehearsal halls. Commissioned in 2011 for the Pasadena Musical Theatre Program and premiered as part of the Los Angeles Festival of New Musicals, Jasper in Deadland played the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew in its Off-Broadway premiere in the spring of 2014.

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