THE ALCOHOLIC MOVIE MUSICAL! to Run 10/7-31 at Bushwick Starr

From the mind of acclaimed performance artist Cynthia Hopkins comes The Alcoholic Movie Musical!, an experiment in live musical filmmaking that draws equal inspiration from Trapped in the Closet andDancer in the Dark. A comedy routine about alcoholism delivered by Ms. Hopkins rapidly evolves into an operatic description of her quest to create an outlandish musical film telling her life story, culminating in a live enactment of this impossible film that is hand-made, hilarious, and harrowing. Enhanced by the brilliant design of innovative video artist Jeff Sugg, The Alcoholic Movie Musical! manifests through the tensile strength of live performance, greater than the sum of its parts.

Location:

The Bushwick Starr theater: 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wyckoff]

Directions:

Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right.

For detailed driving directions visit: www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS

Tickets are $18.00 at www.thebushwickstarr.org

About Cynthia Hopkins

Cynthia Hopkins (cynthiahopkins.com) is an internationally acclaimed musical performance artist: she writes and sings songs, records albums, and creates groundbreaking multi-media performance works that intertwine truth and fiction, blurring the lines between edification and entertainment. Through the process of making performances, she attempts to alchemize disturbance into works of intrigue and hope that simultaneously stimulate the senses, provoke emotion, and enliven the mind. She has produced six performance works and eight albums of original music. Her work has been honored with many awards, including a 2015 Doris Duke Artist Award, a 2015 Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2007 Alpert Award in Theater. The Alcoholic Movie Musical! continues her collaborative relationship with acclaimed video artist Jeff Sugg, who has contributed his brilliant design sensibility to five previous works by Ms. Hopkins: This Clement World (2013); The Truth: A Tragedy (2010); The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success) (2009); Must Don't Whip 'Um (2007 Bessie Award for design); andAccidental Nostalgia (2005 Bessie Award for Creation).