BIG MAESTRO & LITTLE CELLO BOY to Have World Premiere at Broadwater

Are you hungry... for greatness? Would you give up everything to become truly great? This is the question at the heart of Big Maestro & Little Cello Boy, a dark slapstick exploration of shame, ambition, & horsehair from Alex Derderian (Holy Holy) & Peter Levine (Internet Style). Watch in horrified amusement as a prestigious public master class devolves into a twisted ritual of public humiliation and embarrassment. Under the tutelage of the brilliant (if unhinged) maestro Caucus (Derderian), a dedicated classical cellist (Levine) is stripped down to his bare essentials through a series of increasingly bizarre and merciless tests of devotion to his art. With the grotesque absurdity of a fever dream apparition, the maestro forces both cellist and audience to ask whether a life consumed by artistic ambition is truly a life worth living.

In a World Premiere directed by renowned physical theater artist and clown Dean Evans (Honeybuns), Caucus and Peter will be conducting 5 masterclasses at the Broadwater Second Stage as a part of the 2026 Hollywood Fringe.