Hamburger Theatre Declares MacChin: The Lamentable Tragedie of Jay Leno A Success

The reviews are in and it is official, MacChin: The Lamentable Tragedie of Jay Leno is the sleeper hit of FringeNYC 2010! Come and see for yourself what the above critics are glowing about. "MacChin is an epic staging of the demise of televised taste-making. The Tonight Show is Valhalla and MacChin is a 21st Century Götterdämmerung. Come and watch that bitch burn," exclaims set designer Mike Hunt. What better way to celebrate the death of print journalism and professional taste-making than with a review of your own? Hurry, you only have three more chances before it's gone: Friday, August 20th at 7:00pm, Monday, August 23rd at 2:30pm, and Friday, August 27th at 2:30pm.

Jay Leno: loveable all-American funnyman or ruthless power-hungry killer? Recasting Leno as the central character in Shakespeare's Macbeth, MacChin: The Lamentable Tragedie of Jay Leno sheds new light on the Late Night Television Wars of 1992 - 2010, arguably America's answer to The War of the Roses. Johnny Carson, Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, and Jon Stewart all make an appearance in this epic revisionist history of Late Night mirthdom. Find out what happens when the cameras stop rolling and the comics get tragic. For one king of Late Night to rise, another must die.

Joshua Key-Maginnis plays the title role of Jay Leno, with Anne Richmond playing his take-no-prisoners manager Helen Kushnick. The cast also includes Seth Andrew Bridges (Conan O'Brien), Bill Bria (David Letterman), Michael Lister (Johnny Carson), John Kurzynowski (Jon Stewart), Roni Laytin (Witch), Jill Maybruch (Witch), Malorie Bryant (Witch), Jordan Swisher (NBC Page), and Anna Suzuki (NBC Page).

MacChin marks The Hamburger Theatre Company's second collaboration with FringeNYC after 2007's Princess Mimi, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Frog. Zachary Stewart directs, with costumes by Laura Helmer, sound/media design by Rachel Kerry, and lighting design by Andrew Neisler.

WHAT: The World Premiere of Zachary Stewart's MacChin: The Lamentable Tragedie of Jay Leno

WHERE: The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal Street (at Minetta Lane)
New York, Ny 10012

WHEN: August 14th - 27th
Saturday, August 14th at 4:30pm
Sunday, August 15th at 8:30pm
Friday, August 20th at 7:00pm
Monday, August 23rd at 2:30pm
Friday, August 27th at 2:30pm

WHO: The Hamburger Theatre Company as part of FringeNYC

The Hamburger Theatre Company is dedicated to developing new American theatre. Drawing on sources as varied as celebrity tabloid gossip, classical literature, and video games, while utilizing the classic theatrical forms of drag performance, opera, and melodrama, Hamburger will serve up theatre that is deliciously tawdry and intellectually satisfying. We aim to turn today's "trash culture" into tomorrow's priceless mythology. There is no high art, only high hair, and the higher the hair, the closer to God.

For more information, visit www.macchin.tumblr.com

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