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Michael Levinton

MICHAEL LEVINTON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Michael Levinton's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Michael Levinton's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         (Oh My God I Am So) Thirst(Y)         Bambif*cker/Kaffeehaus         Little Lord's Babes In Toyland

(Oh My God I Am So) Thirst(Y)

Synopsis:
Three desperate souls adrift at sea await a maddeningly cruel fate bestowed on them by an angry God. a comedy which may or may not have absolutely nothing to do with race, (oh my god I am so) THIRST(y) is a slight adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Thirst (1914), written while the playwright was confined to a sanatorium in rural Connecticut. One of O'Neill's earliest plays, Thirst evolved out of the playwright's obsession with the Titanic disaster and his distaste for the meloDramatic theater of his father, James O'Neill. (oh my god I am so) THIRST(y) is at once grotesque meloDrama, gothic horror, campy musical theater, and engrossing telenovela.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Incubator Arts Project
131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003    21 Oct 2010

Organisations:
Little Lord

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Music:
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Bambif*cker/Kaffeehaus

Synopsis:
Sure, you cried when you watched the animated classic Bambi...but how well do you know the real story? Little Lord uncovers just what lies behind those beloved doe eyes in BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEHAUS, a madcap examination of early 20th century Vienna and of the forgotten artist behind both the world's most beloved deer, as well as its most scandalous piece of pornography. Copious amounts of coffee, the birth of psychoanalysis, sexualized rabbits, The Sound of Music, and Zionism all come together in Little Lord's makeshift, pop-up Viennese cafe. Your childhood will thank you.

Notes:
written by Michael Levinton and Laura von Holt. The beloved childrens book Bambi: A Life In The Woods was written in 1923 by Felix Salten, child of Jewish immigrants and a journalist associated with Theodor Herzls Zionist paper Die Welt. Salten had been a part of the 1890s generation of young Viennese writers which included Arthur Schnitzler. Salten is also held to be the author of the 1906 anonymous story of the prostitute Josephine Mutzenbacher, which apparently has spawned many pornographic film adaptations. Only when you consider all of these influences could the ensuing performance make sense and promote discussion about human nature.

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Little Lord's Babes In Toyland

Synopsis:
an eccentric musical extravaganza that joyously plunders Victor Herbert's 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland. In this anarchic and awkwardly sincere incarnation, Little Lord's Babes in Toyland is stripped-down to make the most of the original script's absurd, nonsensical plot about a pair of young lovers and their fantastical journey from Mother Goose Village to Toyland. Staged as a "recession spectacular," its world is one of brightly painted cardboard and shoddy spectacle, with a cast of five playing over two-dozen roles. Pillaging the foggy recollections of its adapter/director Michael Levinton - who appeared for seven years in a Baltimore community theater production of Babes in Toyland in his youth - Babes conjures a nostalgia for made-up memories in a land of manufactured make-believe.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    30 Nov 2011

Organisations:
Little Lord

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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