Theater Ten Ten Presents SETH SINGS BISEN-HERSH 11/9
by Reynard Loki
- Oct 20, 2008
For the fourth year in a row, Seth Bisen-Hersh will perform a solo show at Theater Ten Ten. This year in Seth Sings Bisen-Hersh, he will sing highlights from his six cabaret acts of original songs.
Bisen-Hersh Brings Neurotic Tendencies to Don't Tell Mama
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 16, 2006
Neurotic Tendencies, billed as 'an abnormal act of original songs' by and starring Seth Bisen-Hersh, will play Don't Tell Mama on September 7th at 8:30 PM, September 9th at 6 PM and September 10th at 8 PM.
Bisen-Hersh's 'Meaningless Sex' At Danny's Skylight Room In May
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 19, 2005
Seth Bisen-Hersh, composer of the award-winning Fringe Festival musicals Meaningless Sex (Audience Favorite Award 2003) and The Spickner Spin (Audience Favorite Award 2004), returns to the cabaret scene with his 3rd originally composed cabaret, Meaningful Sex, an act about the ins and outs of relationships.
The Spickner Spin
by Michael Dale
- Aug 20, 2004
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When you go to a fringe theatre festival it's expected you'll be choosing your entertainment from an assortment of one-person plays, avant-guarde pieces, multi-media productions and cutting edge social commentaries. In such an atmosphere, perhaps the most experimental type of theatre piece you can do nowadays is a traditionally structured, show-tune laden book musical with a ten piece orchestra (no synthesizers), a full singing/dancing/acting chorus and a plot that lightheartedly spoofs American politics without holding a particular politician or party up to ridicule.
Back in the 1930's, before Saturday Night Live and The Onion, theatregoers would often get their political satire by taking in the latest hit Broadway musical. But shows like I'd Rather Be Right and Leave It to Me, big hits in their day, would be quickly be considered unrevivable because, as satire, the issues they dealt with dated quickly. But one exception was the Pulitzer Prize winning Of Thee I Sing, which eschewed taking it's plot from the latest headlines and instead explored the timeless theme of swaying public sympathy. That silly, gentle-humored spirit is re-created in Seth Bisen-Hersh (music and lyrics) and Daniel Scribner's (book and lyrics) charming gumdrop of a musical, The Spickner Spin.