Very Very Rock Show In Concert
featuring Rebecca Naomi Jones & more!
March 5, 2015
Cover charge: $30 – $40
Premium Seating: $65
Cover Charge Additional $5 At Door
Food & Beverage Minimum: $25
| Thur, Mar 5 | 9:30p | Doors 8:45p | Tickets |
A sexy electric reinvention of a classic comedy of rebellion, love, freedom, and redemption, VERY VERY is the new musical that turns Shakespeare’s As You Like It into a full-out rock concert.
The night features Rebecca Naomi Jones (Big Love, American Idiot), Alysha Umphress (On the Town, American Idiot), Joe Carroll (Cinderalla, Once), Eric LaJuan Summers (Motown), Genson Blimline (Rock Of Ages), Kacie Sheik (Hair), Theo Stockman (Hair, American Idiot), Matthew Hydzik (Side Show, West Side Story), Ben Roseberry (The Lion King), Larry Owens (Fat Camp), Sara Kapner (Bare), Kasie Gasparini (Mamma Mia), along with show creators Zac Lasher (U-Melt, Bebe Buell Band, Maggie Rose), Jay Leibowitz (The Acting Company,Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), and their band featuring Kevin Griffin and Rob Salzer of U-Melt, Dan McNaney and Sparkie Sandler. Cast members from the original workshop of VERY VERY at the NYC Gibson-Baldwin Showroom Anna Ty Bergman, Dani Marcus, Blake Pfeil, and Roger Weisman lend their talents on backup.
VERY VERY tells the story of Rosalind and Orlando, two young lovers who flee the tyranny of home only to reunite in a sexually charged and confusingly passionate exile. Songs feature a modern rock vocabulary from various genres blended together in Zac Lasher’s unique compositional style and Jay Leibowitz’s lyrics, which cleverly deconstruct Shakespeare’s original text.
VERY VERY was originally conceived by Jason King Jones (The Acting Company, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and Associate Artistic Director at Olney Theatre Center) and has been in development since April of 2012. Two free industry concert readings of the show, directed by Jason King Jones, music directed by Zac Lasher, and produced by Jay Leibowitz, were performed to great acclaim on March 4th, 2013 at the legendary Gibson-Baldwin Showroom in midtown Manhattan. The American Theater Group presented a free abridged concert reading of VERY VERY at the Hamilton Stage in Rahway, NJ on December 9th 2013.
Produced by Anna Ty Bergman in association with Very Very Productions, LLC. More about VERY VERY is available at VeryVeryRockShow.com.