BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON at Milburn Stone Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson



Book by Alex Timbers

Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman



An exhilarating and raucous look at one of our nation's founding rock stars, reinventing the life of our seventh president.

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Andrew Jackson kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards, all in the name of these United States – who cares if he didn't have permission? Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson creators, Michael Friedman (Love's Labour's Lost, The Fortress of Solitude) and Alex Timbers (Love's Labour's Lost, Peter and the Starcatcher), cook up an alternate universe (and draw parallels to today's political/populist landscape) with their musical about the seventh U.S. president.

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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson follows America's seventh president from his early days as a child on the wild frontier to his controversial reign in the White House. With the country divided into rich and poor (and with continued skirmishes with the Native Americans upsetting pieces of the new world), Jackson begins his steady climb from military strategist to populist rabble-rouser to President of the United States. Along the way, he meets his wife, Rachel, takes on the Founding Fathers – and rocks like no political figure has ever rocked before, with the help of an onstage trio and an entourage of singing, joking cohorts. It also asks the question: is wanting to have a beer with someone reason enough to elect him? What if he's really, really hot?

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Directed by Andrew John Mitchell

Music Direction by J. Andrew Dickenson

Choreography by Dane Hutchinson

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CAST:

William Bryant as Andrew Jackson

Alexander VanderLek as Black Fox and others

Emily Elborn as Rachel Jackson and others

Zachary Jackson as Martin Van Buren and others Mackenzie Brockmeyer as the 10 Little Indians soloist #1 and others

Mark Brainard Jr. as John Quincy Adams and others

Amy M. Tucker as the 10 Little Indians soloist #2 and others

Ryan Milliner as John C. Calhoun and others

Marion Virginia Jackson as Lyncoya and others Charles W. Johnson IV as Henry Clay and others Jessica Simonson as the corrupt Bargain quartet member and others

Patrick Yarrington as the male ensemble and others

Katherine Fleming as the female ensemble and others

Emily Jewett as The Storyteller, James Monroe and the Tour Guide

Andrew Dickenson as the Steward and the President of Harvard University