'Yeast Nation' Premieres in Chicago, by 'Urinetown' Writing Team
By: BWW News Desk
According to the American Theater Company's website the Chicago Premiere of Yeast Nation: The Triumph of Life from the writers of Urinetown: The Musical Mark Hollmann (music and lyrics) and Greg Kotis (book/lyrics) will take place as part of the Theater's 24th season.
"The Tony Award winning creators of the Broadway hit Urinetown return home to Chicago to premiere the strangest story ever to be musicalized. The year is 3,000,458,000 B.C., and the Earth's first life forms, salt-eating yeasts (yes, yeasts), float in the brine of the primordial soup, under the rule of a dim-witted tyrant. As resources deplete and fear provides land, the faith of one single-celled dreamer changes their society forever, and out of chaos and destruction a new world emerges. Artistic Director PJ Paparelli directs one of the most non-political and slightly amusing evenings of musical theatre in America. Here come the Yeasts!" explain press materialsProduction dates have not been announced. American Theater Company performs at 1909 West Byron, at the corner of Lincoln and Byron, two blocks south of Irving Park Road. For information, including production dates, call (773) 929-1031 or www.atcweb.org.
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