'BULLDOZER' Panel Discussions to Feature NYC Council Members, Historians & Journalists

Bulldozer Partners in association with Aaron Grant Theatrical has announced that Bulldozer: The Ballad of Robert Moses, will present special post show panel discussions about the Master Builder's life and his impact on modern New York with journalists, city council members, historians and professors.

The lineup is as follows:

-Wednesday 12/13 (2pm show): Daniel Garodnick, the Council member for the 4th District of the New York City Council. The district includes the Upper East Side, Central Park South, Grand Central Terminal, Tudor City, Waterside, Peter Cooper Village, Carnegie Hill, Stuyvesant Town, the United Nations as well as part of Yorkville and Turtle Bay in Manhattan.

-Wednesday 12/20: "Bulldozer" Author Peter Galperin and "Bulldozer" Director Karen Carpenter

-Wednesday 12/27 (7pm show): Mason Williams, historian professor of political science at Williams College and author of City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York

-Wednesday 1/3 (7pm show): Ada Calhoun author of St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street. She is also a journalist who frequently writes about NYC community issues.

-Wednesday 1/3 (2pm show) David Plotz, CEO of Atlas Obscura and host of Slate's Political Gabfest. Traditional Talkback.

The new rock musical about Robert Moses will have its official opening on December 12th and features Music & Lyrics by Peter Galperin with a Book by Peter Galperin and Daniel Scot Kadin.

Karen Carpenter will direct the production which features 17 original songs played by a four-piece rock band and stars Constantine Maroulis, as the Master Builder Robert Moses. Mr. Maroulis will be joined by Wayne Wilcox as Nelson Rockefeller, Molly Pope as Jane Jacobs, Ryan Knowles and Kacie Sheik.

The production opens on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 and will run through Sunday, January 7, 2018 at the Theatre at St. Clement's (423 West 46th Street).

Robert Moses was one of the most polarizing figures in New York political history, and was probably the most powerful unelected official ever in the United States. He outlasted and outfought 5 governors, 6 mayors, and several Presidents. From the late 1920s to the mid 1960s anything that was built in New York City and New York State had to be approved by him. Jones Beach, the Verrazano Bridge, the renovation of Central Park in the 1930s, Lincoln Center, all of New York Cities public swimming pools, The Westside Highway, The United Nations, all of the parkways and highways that lead out of New York into Long Island and Westchester County, two World's Fairs, the list of his projects is literally endless.

But much of what he did destroyed neighborhoods and greatly accelerated inner city decay, and almost everything he did was aimed at the growing car culture of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Of the billions of dollars of public infrastructure built under his control, not one dollar went towards mass transit. So the urban environment that we live in today is largely one created by Moses - we live in the world he left behind. Today, if you were stuck in traffic on the LIE, or your train to Bay Ridge broke down, or if you are a die-hard NY baseball fan, Moses life's work probably impacts your life more than you realize.