CYCLOPS: A Rock Opera Extends at NYMF

Psittacus Productions, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit theater and multimedia company, announced today that the critically acclaimed "CYCLOPS: A ROCK OPERA," is extending due to popular demand. The final performance at NYMF will be Sunday October 9th at 11pm, at the 47th Street Theatre in midtown Manhattan. Featuring an original score of 24 genre-bending songs written by Jayson Landon Marcus and Benjamin Sherman, "CYCLOPS" is a fast-paced, rock n' roll musical re-imagining of the only surviving Greek Satyr Play, the story of Odysseus' encounter with the monstrous Cyclops, and his adventures with the loud and crude rock band The Satyrs.

"I'm thrilled that CYCLOPS has found such an energetic, and loyal audience," Managing Director Chas LiBretto said. "Coming in from out of town and then being able to pack a 190 seat Off-Broadway house night after night gives me great hope for this show's future.

Comprised of Executive Director Louis Butelli and Director-at-Large Robert Richmond, along with LiBretto, Psittacus Productions exists to create innovative theater art to share with its community, investigating the ways in which modern life and new media affect the act of storytelling.

Tickets are $25 and are now on-sale at www.nymf.org/cyclops.

Further information about Psittacus Productions can be found on their website, their Facebook page, on Twitter, on Youtube, on Soundcloud, and on Blogspot. Psittacus Productions is incorporated in the state of California as a 501c3 nonprofit organization.

Now in its eighth year, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) is the largest annual musical theatre event in America and is widely regarded as the essential source for new material and talent discovery. NYMF provides a launching pad for the next generation of musicals and ensuring their creators the continued vitality of one of America's greatest art forms. Hailed as the "Sundance of Musical Theatre," NYMF discovers, nurtures, and promotes promising musical theatre artists and producers at all stages of development, and inspires a diverse audience through vibrant, accessible, powerful new work.

NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF 2011 is presented in association with BroadwayWorld.com, Production Resource Group and TheaterMania.com. Major supporters include The ASCAP Foundation, BMI Foundation, Inc., The Broadway League, The BWF Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation with the support and encouragement of Jamie Ariel Phinney, The Charlie & Jane Fink Charitable Fund, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and The Theater League. NYMF is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. NYMF is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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