"You're gonna need a bigger boat." Stay out of the water as Erin Lane, Keenan Camp, Logan Dean and Chris Gorton present ALL THAT JAWS. The production is a re-interpretation of one of the most infamous movies of all time. Performances are every Friday night from tonight, October 19 – December 7 at 10:30 PM at Theatre Wit (1229 W. Belmont). Theatre Wit is accessible via the CTA Red Line (Belmont Stop), #77 Belmont bus and #22 Clark bus.
From the creators of Attend the Tale of Danny Tanner: A Full House Musical and Jersey Shore: The Musical, the world premiere of ALL THAT JAWS, a Sharktastic new musical, will reacquaint you with the sea with an absurd, comical, and musical re-imagining of the world's first summer blockbuster. The original film came out in 1975 and some of us still won't go into the ocean. Audiences will enter the mind of Jaws as the musical takes original and whimsical stabs at this classic horror film.
When a lonely great white shark named Jaws comes to the small island community of Amity looking for friendship, his plans are thwarted by his unfortunate instinct to eat everything and everyone around him. It's up to Martin Brody, Amity's new chief of police, to bring hold Jaws accountable for his actions.
Directed by Keenan Camp, ALL THAT JAWS is produced by Erin Lane, Keenan Camp, Logan Dean and
Chris Gorton. Book by Keenan Camp and Logan Dean and music by
Chris Gorton. ALL THAT JAWS features musical direction by Ryan Miera and choreography by Nikki Pierce. ALL THAT JAWS stars
Rob Speer, Peter Kremidas, Dan Wright, C.J. Tuor and Allison Kochanski. ALL THAT JAWS will also feature Neala Barron, Courtney Crary, Dean Gibbs, Alex Hand, Madeline Maser, Bran
Don Price, A.J. Rahm, and Amanda Roeder.
ALL THAT JAWS brings four well-known Chicago comedians, writers and performers, together. Erin Lane has produced, written, directed and performed in the Chicago hits Jersey Shore: The Musical, Americans in Peril and ObamaNation; Keenan Camp performed in The Verse: Another Firefly Story at iO and can be seen in the indie film "You Are Not Alone." He also co-hosts The Show Below, Wicker Park's longest running improv show with Logan Dean. Logan Dean has written and performed with Chicago supergroup Octavarius, and played James Madison in their hit webseries I Made America;
Chris Gorton is a featured member of Chicago's longest running revue in iO history, The Cupid Players, and wrote and starred in Attend the Tale of Danny Tanner: A Full House Musical.
For more information about ALL THAT JAWS go to
www.facebook.com/AllThatJaws.
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