Fleet Week

These are just some pictures we got goin’ on.

Ahoy!

We just got a nice preview in Playbill online.

And, we forgot to mention that we were mentioned in the New York Times last Sunday!

Click here before it becomes an archive you have to pay for.

(Lindsay would like to point out that he wasn’t a producer for PlayCo, just the Managing Director, which is not half as cool, so please don’t sue him.)

Wow, cool! We’re in Newsweek. And we didn’t out Valerie Plame or anyone else.

Click here to read our old, more subtle, tagline in a national magazine!

Many thanks to writer Gersh Kuntzman, who is apparently a Good Egg, and is hereby named the first member of the “Seven C’s Club”

FLEET WEEK: The Musical will have its World Premiere in August 2005, at the famous and beautiful Lucille Lortel Theater!

The show is part of the famous and beautiful New York International Fringe Festival.

The dates will be announced in the space in July 11th. The run is limited, so order tickets early and often!

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.”

Lady Liberty’s Demise, song #5

All right. Um… how do I explain this. There are a group of terrorists from the Carribean island of Martinique, and they want to take over the world. To achieve these ends, they are going to blow up the Statue of Liberty and make it look like the United States hates the French (the statue was a gift from France), so the French will declare war on America. They have employed the help of “Tex” a right-wing, internet-freak, bomb expert, who rants about various right wing ideals.

We never said these guys had *good* ideas. Our coast guard comrades overhear this entire song and spend the rest of the play trying to save Lady Liberty.

Lose It In Front, Song #4

One of our sailors thinks she has to dress up like a man in order to serve her country, and the man she has fallen in love with doesn’t know she’s a woman. In this song, she tells us that it’s been like this since junior high school…

Queer at the Pier, Song #3

One of our sailors is worried because he’s been getting a little too intimate with his bunk-mate and he thinks he might be gay. The Chaplain assures him that the Coast Guard doesn’t count anything you do out on the briney. We also get to meet Ravioli and Sachs, our gay couple who are pretty sure they will find wives and live “normal” lives during their one day of shore leave.

Fleet Week Opening, Song #2

This is the opening of the show, where the curtains part and we first see our sailors on the deck of the USS Stonewall, mops in hand looking at the New York City skyline. You also meet the mayor and some real New York City girls.

Libby’s Prologue, song #1
Yes, this is the Statue Of Liberty who sings the prologue. And yes, she’s a bit of a slut. But in a wonderful, old-fashioned sort of way.