Original PENNYPAN CABARET Opens In East Village

The PennyPan Cabaret is a new feature-length theatrical show that weaves together fantasy and causality over the gritty backdrop of New York City life. Using storytelling, music, poetry, short plays and a hearty helping from the libretto of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" the Cabaret tells tragicomic tales of love, loss, hope and hubris. From sylvan Arcadia to the gritty Greenwich Village streets, this comically brooding and musically inventive show is an aller-retour to a time and place that never was, but still seems familiar because life is life is life. The PennyPan Cabaret tells three unique New York Stories:

• The Busker - One man's journey to greatness by way of the city's subterranean.
• Pennies From Heaven? - The road to perdition might be paved with good intentions, but sometimes the opposite is also true. Scenes from a downtown alley.
• Pan on the Skids: a spoken-word operetta in two acts -Where do you go when paradise has become unpalatable? Why, to Brooklyn, of course. Philandering Greek god Pan takes his hooves on a walkabout through the city that never sleeps.

This heady and fun new work by Valdaniel Martins (composer, "New York Stories", Ianesco's "Rhinoceros") opens Thursday October 26th for a four-show run at the venerable Nuyorican Poets Cafe on E 3rd St and stars Max Wingert, Ana Cantoran Viramontes, Amanda Miller, Harry Bainbridge, Maya Klausner, Jaime Arciniegas, Khadija Ansari and Joseph Sexton.

Tickets HERE or at www.penpancab.com/shows

10/26, 10/27, 11/1, 11/8
@
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 E 3rd St
(between Ave B and C)
(212) 780-9386