DISASTER at Kweskin Theatre

Earthquakes, tidal waves, infernos and dozens of unforgettable songs of the '70s, take center stage in Broadways side-splitting homage to classic disaster films, Disaster!, playing at Curtain Call in Stamford, June 3 through 18.Disaster! is a new musical straight from Broadway, featuring some of the most unforgettable songs of the '70s. "Knock on Wood," "Hooked on a Feeling," "Sky High," "I Am Woman" and "Hot Stuff" are just a few of the scintillating hits in this hilarious musical comedy with a book by three-time Emmy Award nominee and SiriusXM Broadway host, Seth Rudetsky, and Jack Plotnick. Greenwich native, Steve Marzullo, served as musical supervisor for the off-Broadway production and musical director for the Broadway run.Marzullo, whose other NYC credits include Mamma Mia, Grease, On The Twentieth Century, Grease and many more, said, "It was one of the funniest shows I got to do on Broadway. We were laughing all the time during the rehearsal process." Sometimes, we just want to laugh and have fun at the theatre, and thats what well have with Disaster!, said Lou Ursone, Curtain Calls executive director and producer for this June production.This show rivals the silliness of Spamalot and Something Rotten, while it spoofs movies we know well, he added. (The song list looks like the Billboard Top Hits of the 1970s.) And like Marzullo, Ursone and his team have been laughing during the current rehearsal process.Disaster! is exactly the kind of show you would expect from someone like Seth Rudetsky, said George H. Croom, director of the show. Rudetsky co-wrote Disaster and starred in the Broadway production. An accomplished musician, actor and radio host, Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick created Disaster! garnering generally positive reviews, including from the New York Times which called Disaster, inspired lunacy.After a three-year run on off-Broadway, Disaster opened on Broadway in 2016. When it comes to lunacy on stage, I know no one better than George, Ursone said. Crooms past directorial projects at Curtain Call include Something Rotten and Spamalot.It's 1979, and New York's hottest A-listers are lining up for the opening of a floating casino and discotheque. Also attending is a faded disco star, a sexy nightclub singer with her eleven-year-old twins, a disaster expert, a feminist reporter, an older couple with a secret, a pair of young guys who are looking for ladies, an untrustworthy businessman and a nun with a gambling addiction. What begins as a night of boogie fever quickly changes to panic as the ship succumbs to multiple disasters, such as earthquakes, tidal waves and infernos. As the night turns into day, everyone struggles to survive and, quite possibly, repair the love that they've lost... or at least escape the killer rats.