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Cast And Performance Dates Announced For Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Updated: Thursday, May 10 2012, 09:32 PM CDT
By Rob Faubion, AustinOnStage.com

Doctuh Mistuh Productions - the production group who created the critically-acclaimed Evil Dead, The Musical - will present the Texas premiere of the controversial hit Broadway rock musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.  Award-winning director Michael McKelvey returns to Austin as stage and musical director for the performances that run June 6th through July 1st at The BLUE Theatre.
    
A white-knuckled look at one of the nation's founding "rock stars," the musical recreates and reinvents the life of "Old Hickory" - from his humble beginnings on the Tennessee frontier to his days as our seventh Commander-in-Chief. It also asks the question - is wanting to have a beer with someone reason enough to elect him?
    
New York-based experimental company Les Freres Corbusier developed Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson with workshop productions in August 2006 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and in May 2007 at the New 42nd Street Studios in New York.   Featuring a book by Alex Timbers, and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, the musical premiered in Los Angeles at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and at The Public Theater in New York prior to its run on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre from October 2010 through  January 2011.
     
The show portrays Andrew Jackson as an emo rock star and scrutinizes the American politic machine with wit and cynicism.   The theatricality of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson ranges from hard-edge Green Day-like concert to PBS historical recreation to vaudevillian buffoonery - and nothing is sacred, especially not the rise and fall of the man whom many consider America’s most popular president. 
     
The Austin premiere cast features David Gallagher, Haley Smith Montgomery, Jose Villareal, Libby Dees Detling, Aaron Alexander, Rebecca Robinson, Scott Swanson, Sarah Marie Curry, Joey Banks, Eve Sampaga, Stephen Jack, Joel Mercado-See, Nathan Jerkins, David Ponton, Alan Marequiota and Trevor Detling.  Ben Wolfe serves as assistant director, with costume designs by Glenda Barnes, set designs by Joe Carpenter and lighting designs by Erin Flemming.
     
Performances will run Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 5 p.m.  Additional performances will be offered on Wednesday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m., and Friday, June 29, at 11 p.m.  Tickets are $15 to $22, with $10 Student Rush tickets available 30 minutes prior to each performance.
    
The Blue Theatre is located at 916 Springdale Road.  For tickets, call (800) 838-3006 or visit www.BrownPaperTickets.com.

(Image courtesy Doctuh Mistuh Productions)Cast And Performance Dates Announced For Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson