Nancy Opel Takes On 'THE TOXIC AVENGER', Performances Begin 3/18

Tony Award-nominee Nancy Opel will be reunited with her Tony Award-winning Urinetown director, John Rando, when she stars in the new musical, The Toxic Avenger. The casting was announced today by the show's producers, Jean Cheever and Tom Polum. Ms. Opel, who created her role in the show's world premiere at George Street Playhouse (New Brunswick, New Jersey), plays the mayor of a mythical small New Jersey town (not dissimilar to a real-life former mayor of a small Alaska town).

Featuring book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change) & music by David Bryan (Bon Jovi), with direction by Mr. Rando, The Toxic Avenger will begin performances on Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). Opening Night is set for Monday, April 6th.

To purchase priority advance tickets for The Toxic Avenger, visit the show's official web site (www.TheToxicAvengerMusical.com), become a Toxic Fan and you will receive access to a special discount code via email the day the tickets officially go on sale. By becoming a ‘Toxie Fan', you will also be the first to know about exclusive ‘Toxie Fan' special events and future offers.

Based on the classic 1985 cult film by Lloyd Kaufman, The Toxic Avenger premiered this fall at The George Street Playhouse, where the show became the biggest grossing musical in the theatre's 34 year history. Wrote Peter Filichia, critic for the New Jersey Star-Ledger, "Considering the response that The Toxic Avenger received on Friday night, the building must now have many cracked walls from all the explosive applause and laughter the New Brunswick audience gave it."

The Toxic Avenger is set in the mythical town of Tromaville, Exit 13B off the New Jersey Turnpike. An aspiring earth scientist, Melvin Ferd the Third, is determined to clean up the town's burgeoning toxic waste, until he is tossed into a vat of radioactive goo and emerges as a seven-foot mutant freak and New Jersey's first superhero. Armed with superhuman strength and a heart as big as Newark, he's out to save New Jersey, end global warming and woo Sarah, the prettiest, blindest librarian in town.

The team of David Bryan (keyboardist and co-founder of the legendary band Bon Jovi) and Joe DiPietro (creator of the mega-long-running international hit I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change) have also written Memphis, which recently opened to critical raves at La Jolla Playhouse, and will next be seen later this month at Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theatre. The Toxic Avenger marks Bryan and DiPietro's second collaboration.

Complete casting and Design team will be announced shortly.

For more information and to hear songs from the production (and for other fun stuff),

visit www.TheToxicAvengerMusical.com.

 

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