SPAMILTON: AN AMERICAN PARODY Comes To Playhouse Square!

Playhouse Square will present the Cleveland premiere of the hit musical comedy Spamilton: An American Parody at the Hanna Theatre from December 20, 2018 - January 6, 2019. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 28, 2018, and will be available in person at the Playhouse Square ticket office (1519 Euclid Ave in downtown Cleveland), online at playhousesquare.org or by calling 216.241.6000.

Created by Gerard Alessandrini, the comic mastermind behind the long-running hit Forbidden Broadway and performed by a versatile cast of seven, Spamilton is a side-splitting new musical parody. After tearing it up in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, Spamilton fulfills its manifest destiny by conquering Cleveland for a limited time only.

Marilyn Stasio of Variety mused, "Hip-hop, Broadway showtunes, Viennese waltzes - is there anything this guy can't write? No, not Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, but Gerard Alessandrini, whose ingenious parody Spamilton simultaneously salutes and sends up Miranda and his signature musical." Ben Brantley of The New York Times said, "This smart, silly, and often convulsively funny thesis, performed by a motor-mouthed cast that is fluent in many tongues, is the work of that eminent specialist in Broadway anatomy, pathology, and gossip, Gerard Alessandrini."

Spamilton: An American Parody will play the Hanna Theatre at Playhouse Square with performances December 20, 2018 - January 6, 2019. Tickets are $39 and $59 each, and will be available beginning Friday, September 28, at playhousesquare.org, 216.241.6000 or in person at the Playhouse Square ticket office.

Due to the holidays, the weekly show schedule will be as follows:
Week one (Dec 20 - 23): Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 3pm and 7:30pm, Sunday at 3pm and 7:30pm

Week two (December 24 - 30): Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday at 7pm and 9:30pm, Saturday at 3pm and 7:30pm, Sunday at 3pm and 7:30pm

Week three (December 31 - January 6): Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday at 7pm and 9:30pm, Saturday at 3pm and 7:30pm, Sunday at 3pm and 7:30pm

Gerard Alessandrini (Creator, Writer & Director) is a Special Tony Award winner for Excellence in the Theatre. He created, wrote, and directed all 25 editions of Forbidden Broadway in NYC, Los Angeles, and around the world, and performed in the original 1982 cast. He can be heard on four of the 12 Forbidden Broadway cast albums and on the Disney classics Aladdin and Pocahontas. He has written television specials for Bob Hope, Angela Lansbury, and Carol Burnett. He contributed material to the recent Barbra Streisand album Encore. His other musicals include Madame X (co-written with Robert Hetzel) and an all-sung version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. Most recently in New York, he directed the new revue Anything Can Happen in the Theater: The Songs of Maury Yeston. His Spamilton won Best Unique Theatrical Experience (Off-Broadway Theatre Alliance) and Show of the Year (2017 MAC Award). Other awards include seven Drama Desks (including two for Best Lyrics), one Obie, two Lucille Lortels, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Drama League.