FringeNYC Musical 'Big Guy' Stars Jibson, Abramovitz, Etc.

The 2007 New York International Fringe Festival and 14 Husky Productions will present Bye, Bye Big Guy, a new musical with music by David Evans (Birds of Paradise, A...My Name is Alice), lyrics by Faye Greenberg (High School Musical) and book by Michael Slade (Thanksgiving at MCC).

Directed by Devanand Janki (Zanna, Don't), Bye, Bye Big Guy plays at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St. (between Bleecker St. and Hudson St.) on Monday, August 20th at 11:00 p.m.; Tuesday, August 21st at 8:15 p.m.; Thursday, August 23rd at 3:45 p.m.; Friday, August 24th at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday August 25th at noon.
 
A"n irreverent, musical satire, Bye, Bye, Big Guy, is a memorial to the late, great, gold-spinner, Rumplestiltskin.  Snow White, Dr. Jack Sprat, Goldilocks and a multitude of dwarfs are just a few of the guests who gather to pay their last respects and find out if they might win the Stiltskin fortune.  Be forewarned, this is not a musical for children....," as described by press materials.
 
The cast features Danielle Lee Greaves (Hairspray, Rent); Carly Jibson (Hairspray); Jill Abramovitz (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me); Orville Mendoza (Pacific Overtures, Adrift in Macao) and Michael Gerrard. Musical direction is by Torquil Munro (Blood Brothers), set designs are by David Newell with costuming by Karen Ann Ledger.
 
"After attending one too many celebrity memorial services whose sole purpose seemed to be to entertain and had precious little to do with the dearly departed, the creators began writing Bye, Bye Big Guy as a comment on our national obsession with celebrity."

Tickets for Bye, Bye Big Guy are $15. Bye, Bye Big Guy plays August 20th – 25th at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St. (between Bleecker St. and Hudson St.). For tickets, call (212) 279-4488 or visit www.fringeNYC.org.  For more information, please visit http://byebyebigguy.com.

Photo of Jill Abramovitz by Craig Brockman