The Show!
FLEET WEEK: The Musical is a gay salute to the patriotic musicals of yesteryear. Four blissfully unenlightened Sailors and their queeny Chaplain hit the New York City streets for FLEET WEEK looking for romance and adventure. They stumble into a bathhouse (don’t ask) where they overhear a dastardly plot (don’t tell) — but how can they stop it when nobody believes their story? (Don’t know.) Come see the Statue of Liberty find love, the Coast Guard finally get some respect and Gay Marriage save New York from a Martiniquean terrorist attack
during FLEET WEEK!
FLEET WEEK is an honest to goodness, old school musical — a fab new story told using a well-loved form. The 20-odd songs are catchy and clever, the jokes are smart and smutty, and the sweet, moving love stories are gay and straight and in-between.
It’s everything people pay $100 for a little ways uptown–without the tourists! (Well, not everything people pay for):
Dancing Sailors and singing Lady Cops… A slutty monument and gratuitous French-bashing… Dozens of songs from every musical theater genre… Dirty jokes and good, clean, old-fashioned, large-cast Musical Theater! Plus illegal gay weddings performed free of charge after the show.
If you miss this show, you’ll spend the rest of your life lying to your
children about what you did during FLEET WEEK!
FLEET WEEK features actor Micah Bucey (Oustanding Peformer, FringeNYC 2004 for “The Only Thing Straight Is My Jacket”) and is directed by Eric Pliner, who directed such FringeNYC favorites as “Jinkies!” (Outstanding Ensemble Cast, 1999) and “Madonna In the Title.”