Interactive Dirty Dinner Theater About Al Capone Opens As Newest Coney Island Attraction

Interactive Dirty Dinner Theater About Al Capone Opens As Newest Coney Island Attraction

THE EDUCATION OF AL CAPONE AS IF TOLD BY Jimmy Durante
Written & Directed by
Dick D. Zigun

Previews start November 2nd at the world famous SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE in Brooklyn. The show is Brechtian Cabaret with a LIVE JAZZ BAND circa 1918 that "samples" Jimmy Durante's songs & routines while changing the words to bring you teenager Al Capone getting the scars that earned his nickname Scarface: A Brooklyn TruStory performed 3 blocks from the spot of Al Capone's knife fight 100 years ago in Coney Island.

Audience will interact with performers as if patrons of Coney Island's HARVARD INN a dive bar and gangster hangout Circa 1918. Food fights, fist fights, even a few murders take place in the audience. The audience is also welcome to get up and dance and to drink beer and eat pasta.

PREVIEW PERFORMANCES $10
Friday November 2
8 PM
Saturday November 3
4 & 8 PM
Sunday November 4
4 PM

OPENING NIGHT
Friday November 9
8 PM
$30

Sunday November 11
4 PM
$20

Friday November 16
8 PM
$20
Saturday November 17
4 & 8 PM
$20
Sunday November 18
4 PM
$20

Friday November 23
8 PM
$20
Saturday November 24
4 & 8 PM
$20
Sunday November 25
4 PM
$20

WARM BEER AND LOUSY PASTA SERVED DURING SHOWS $5

LIST OF HISTORICAL CHARACTERS:
Rob Romeo as Jimmy Durante
Will Tomae as Al Capone
Nikos Brisco As Frankie Yale
Natalie Michael as Clara Bow
Robert Aloi as Frank Gallucio
Rita Posillico as Lena Gallucio

Stage Manager Sara Minisquero
Design by Kate Dale
Video-mapping by Dennis Catalfumo

All performances at:
Coney Island USA
Sideshows by the Seashore
1208 Surf Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11224

Tickets and further info at: www.coneyisland.com

THE ÉDUCATION OF AL CAPONE AS IF TOLD BY Jimmy Durante is a project of FUNHOUSE PHILOSOPHERS the resident experimental theater company at CONEY ISLAND USA funded in part by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.