Newsical Extends $25 Strike Offer through December 23

Rick Crom's Drama Desk nominated topical musical revue Newsical 2006: The Next Edition, discoutned tickets during the transit strike tio $25, and have decided to give it one more hurrah on Friday, December 23rd at 8:15 PM, and then the Tickets will go back to $20-$60. Always up to the minute, they have also created a new song spoofing the strike

Newsical, featuring Avenue Q's John Tartaglia, is at the Village theatre (located at 158 Bleecker Street between Thompson and Sullivan). The remaining schedule will be: Dec 23rd at 8:15, December 24th at 3 and 7:15, Dec 26th at 3 & 8:15, Dec 27th at 8:15, Dec 28th 3 & 8:15, Dec 29th and 30th at 8:15, Dec 31st 3 & 8:15. Tickets range from $20 - $60 and can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 212.307.4100/ www.ticketmaster.com; For everything else Newsical visit www.newsicalthemusical.com.

The cast star's Avenue Q star and Tony Nominee John Tartaglia, as well as Stephanie Kurtzuba (The Boy From Oz on Broadway, The Joys of Sex and Bat Boy Off-Broadway) Trish Rapier (performed the role of Liza Minelli in The Boy From Oz, a regular of Forbidden Broadway/ Hollywood, starred in Golf: the Musical and was the winner of the Carol Burnett Award and The Spotlight Award of the Los Angeles Music Center) and Jamison Stern.

Newsical 2006: The New Edition is the new version of the smash hit that came to New York last year at Upstairs at Studio 54, running for 8 months before going on a national tour and two sit down productions.

Lauded for its up-to-the-minute headline news satirization, Newsical reminded audiences of the kind of political satire on stage that was once as prevalent as it is in film and television now. Created at a breakneck pace to keep up with the day?s news cycle, Newsical spoofs both current events as well as perennial media targets in a riotous musical send-up that is a new version from the one that had audiences in stitches 7 months ago.

Newsical was created by veteran musical satirist and comedian Rick Crom (Composer and Lyricist). Rick has created many Off-Broadway and cabaret revues including Oh Fine RSVP, The Subject Was Neurosis, Absolutely Rude, Our Life and Times (1999 MAC & Bistro Awards for Outstanding Musical Revue) and What in the World (2003 Nightlife Award). His topical material is also featured at the Crystal Palace Theatre in Aspen.

Director/ Choreographer Donna Drake was in the original company of A Chorus Line and has many Broadway credits as a singer/dancer. As a director she directed Romance in the Dark, the Broadway Concert starring Jennifer Holiday, Boobs the Musical, Christmas with the Crawfords, et al.