Sinking Ship Productions presents the World Premiere of Powerhouse, a new devised play created by director Jon Levin, writer Josh Luxenberg and the Sinking Ship ensemble. Powerhouse runs from November 3 - 23, 2014 in a limited engagement at the New Ohio Theatre, located at 154 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets in New York City. Previews begin November 3 for a November 6 opening. Check out a new traielr for the production below!
Inspired by swing music, animated cartoons and futuristic machines, Powerhouse takes the audience inside the mind of the brilliant, idiosyncratic composer and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott. Eccentric and obsessive, he wrote fast-paced, tightly orchestrated compositions, attempting to reinvent swing in the 1930s. Wildly successful in his own time, his music would be completely forgotten were it not for its use in countless Looney Tunes cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s. Using physical theater, music, and puppetry, Sinking Ship''s Powerhouse spins a kaleidoscopic, kinetic story about creativity and the chasm between what an artist imagines and what his audience perceives.The cast includes Erik Lochtefeld (Metamorphoses on Broadway, February House at The Public) as Raymond Scott,Tyler Bunch ("The Muppets," "Sesame Street"), Jessica Frey (Clown Bar at The Box, Ten with Partial Comfort), Spencer Lott, Clare McNulty, Hanley Smith and Eric Wright (Compulsion at The Public & Yale Rep).Videos