Ethan Slater and Members of the Original Cast to Perform from WHO'S YOUR BAGHDADDY

Dramatists Play Service will celebrate the publication of the new musical "Who's Your Baghdaddy, or how i started the iraq war" with an event from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29 at Drama Book Shop, 250 W. 40th St. The party will feature libretto signings by the musical's creators, Marshall Pailet and A.D. Penedo, as well as performances from members of the original cast, including Tony Nominee Ethan Slater (SpongeBob SquarePants), Joe Joseph (Band's Visit), Brennan Caldwell (The Sing-Off), Larisa Oleynik (Mad Men, The Secret World of Alex Mack), Jason Collins and Bob D'Haene.

The party is free and open to the public with limited seating available. Copies of the "Baghdaddy" libretto and Broadway Records cast album will be available for purchase at Drama Book Shop. To RSVP, visit: https://www.facebook.com/DramatistsPlayService/

Dramatists Play Service has acquired the licensing rights for the musical in the United States and Canada, and the show is now available for licensing to both professional and amateur theatre companies.

Inspired by true events, "Baghdaddy" introduces the players behind the worst intelligence blunder in modern history. The show begins in a church basement, where disgraced spies, along with the unwitting audience, gather for a support group meeting. The action soon shifts to Frankfurt Airport, where a mysterious Iraqi defector claims he built secret Iraqi bio-weapons labs. At CIA headquarters, other characters are contending with their own ambitions, rash decisions, inflexible bosses, unrequited affections, and unremitting boredom-when a fax arrives from Germany, and with it a golden opportunity. If the defector's story holds up, it will be the ticket out of the basement and into a corner office. It's all fun and games until the looming cataclysm changes everything.

Written by Marshall Pailet (The Sound of Music, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) and A.D. Penedo, "Baghdaddy" originally debuted in Washington, D.C. in the 2011 Capitol Fringe Festival. From there, it moved to an extended run at D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre before making its way to New York's Actor's Temple. The musical opened Off-Broadway at St. Luke's Theatre in April 2017 in a production the New York Times called "...an important, cunning, rock-solid musical comedy with a terrible title."

The cast album from Broadway Records was released digitally and in stores on Sept. 28. The album features performances from the Off-Broadway cast, including Ethan Slater, Brennan Caldwell, Jason Collins, Brandon Espinoza, Joe Joseph, Claire Neumann and Larisa Oleynik. The cast recording was produced by Matthias Winter, with musical direction by Rona Siddiqui and orchestrations by Charlie Rosen.

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Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski