TRIASSIC PARQ Gets Staged Readings at The Players Club, 11/10-11

Triassic Parq, a new version of the FringeNYC hit Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical (Best Musical, FringeNYC '10) will have its first readings November 10th and 11th at The Players Club on Gramercy Park.

The raucous musical tells the story of Jurassic Park from the perspective of the dinosaurs. Triassic Parq is an unflinching meditation on gender, sexual, and racial identity in an evolving landscape destined to stun you with its Importance and Themes. Chaos is unleashed upon the not-so-prehistoric world when one dinosaur in a clan of females spontaneously turns male. The mutation spawns a chain reaction of identity crises, forcing the dinosaurs to question the very facts of life they've held as truth. And, like all great tales laden with import, it is narrated by Morgan Freeman.

There will be uncertainty. There will be blood. There will be shake weights. But above all, there will be Truth.

The cast will include Mitchell Jarvis (Rock of Ages, Fiddler on the Roof) and Lori Tan Chinn (M. Butterfly, Roseanne) playing twin velociraptors, with Dashaun Young (The Lion King) as their velociraptor prote?ge?. The cast will also feature Brandon Espinoza (Gypsy, Big, Les Miserables), Ashley Blanchet (Memphis), Claire Neumann, Lee Seymour, Brandon Gill, Olli Haaskivi, Tara Novie, Cara Massey, and Andy Roninson.

Written by Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Stephen Wargo. Directed by Marshall Pailet (Super Claudio Bros. "Best Musical DC Fringe '10" Who's Your Baghdaddy "Best Musical DC Fringe '11").
The readings will be invitation-only with strictly limited seating, and are a precursor to an Off-Broadway run in spring of 2012.

Triassic Parq is produced by Flying Squirrel Theatricals (The Three Times She Knocked, Godspell) and RD Productions (The Scottsboro Boys, The Pee-Wee Herman Show), in association with Bulldog Theatrical (Freud's Last Session, Colin Quinn: Long Story Short, Desire Under the Elms) and P2 Creations (The Scottsboro Boys, Passing Strange, How the Grinch...). For more information on the production, music samples and more, please visit www.TriassicParq.com.

Photo credit: Skeeter Phillips