IONESCOPADE at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

- Eugene Ionesco; dir: Bill Castellino.

Authors

• Eugene Ionesco
• Mildred Kayden
• Robert Allan Ackerman

Ionescopade premiered at New York's New Rep Theatre in 1974, then transferred to the Cherry Lane Theatre. Critic's called it "one hell of an entertainment [that] snaps, crackles and spins across the stage like a Toulouse-Lautrec version of Hellzapoppin." The 1981 West Coast premiere, directed and choreographed by Bill Castellino with musical direction by Gerald Sternbach, ran at the Odyssey Theatre for over ten months, garnering LA Weekly and Drama-Logue awards. In 1995, Castellino directed Lilianne Montevecchi and Ron Holgate in a revival at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., and in 2012 he helmed the Off-Broadway Alliance award-nominated York Theatre production, for which he also received a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Choreographer.