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Denis Woychuk

DENIS WOYCHUK  

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

 Attorney for the Damned         Isaac Babel and The Gangster King         Mimi & Gustav In Love and PIRATES!

Attorney for the Damned

Synopsis:
a cry from the conscience of a lawyer who made a living representing the rights of the criminally insane. Playwright/lyricist Denis Woychuk is a former lawyer who represented the rights of mental patients for more than ten years in the '80s and '90s, working out of Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, a maximum security hospital in New York. This musical is actually a dark, symbolic treatment of his 1996 autobiographical book, Attorney for the Damned (The Free Press), in which he confessed, 'I live with the painful knowledge that I am somehow complicit in the horrible acts some of my clients commit after I ease their legal constraints and help them get released'." The show is staged as a rock concert. It tells the story of a young, idealistic, woman lawyer named Skyhorse, who works in a big firm but wants to help widows, orphans, and the poor. Her boss assigns her, pro bono, to represent two destitute mental patients at the maximum security hospital for the criminally insane.
- press release

Notes:
conceived And written by Denis Woychuk; music by Rob McCulloch

1st Produced:

Organisations:
KGB Bar

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Music:
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Genre:
rock musical Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Isaac Babel and The Gangster King

Synopsis:
During the 1936 Moscow purges, five friends rehearse an operetta about the Jewish gangster Benya Krik, a folk hero made famous by the writer Isaac Babel, to be performed for Stalins cohorts that evening. Fiddler On The Roof meets The Godfather, in the operetta within a play that is Isaac Babel and the Gangster King.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Book By: Denis Woychuk and Stephen Vincent Brennan; Lyrics By: Denis Woychuk; Music By: Denny Blake and Denis Woychuk; Lyrics By: Stephen Vincent Brennan

1st Produced:
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    01 Nov 2012

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Music:
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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mimi & Gustav In Love and PIRATES!

Synopsis:
Based on Denis Woychuk's beloved picture books about a hippopotamus, Mimi, and a mouse, Gustav, who get what they wish for: adventure, excitement, and each other. Big and little, everyone has a special gift. Denis has adapted his stories for the stage with new lyrics and dialogue, and original music by Caitlin Rodgers.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    06 Nov 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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