Tix Go On Sale 3/4 For The Spidey Project At The Peoples Improv Theater

Tickets for The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, Justin Moran's guerrilla theater project to write, rehearse, and perform a fully-realized musical based on the character Spiderman in under 30 days with a budget of zero dollars, will be made available at 12:01am tonight, March 4, 2011. Set to open one day before the $65 million Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Moran's musical will be the first Spiderman musical to officially open in New York City.

The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility will be performed at 8pm on Monday, March 14 at The People's Improv Theater, 123 East 24th Street - the night before Spiderman-Man: Turn Off The Dark opens.

Tickets, which are free, will be available at http://www.thepit-nyc.com/ and at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/160031. Each person may reserve up to four tickets. Tickets must be claimed Fifteen Minutes PRior to curtain at will call. If you are unable to obtain a reservation online, approximately 20 tickets will be made available at the door Fifteen Minutes PRior to curtain.

Moran, who collaborated with Jon Roufaeal on the story and book, will direct a cast that includes Liz Bachman, Michael Lutton, Ryan Nelson, Claire Neumann, Travis Nilan, Louie Pearlman, Robin Rothman and Jon Roufaeal.

Doug Katsaro (Broadway's Hair; The Rocky Horror Show; Grammy-nominated Footloose; TV's The Tick) is the composer of The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility. Adam Podd (POPE! The Musical, ImagineOcean) is the musical director. Erin Coulter is the stage manager and Taryn Kimel is the production manager.

Moran launched a blog (thespideyproject.blogspot.com) and YouTube page on February 11 to announce the project and enlist a troupe of volunteer writers, designers and actors. "How important is $65 million in making good theater?" asks Moran. "We're going to develop a story, write a complete musical score and script, design sets and costumes, cast, rehearse, advertise and ultimately mount the production on March 14th, 2011 at the The People's Improv Theater in NYC." That announcement generated coverage everywhere from The Wall Street Journal to MTV.

Moran is no stranger to new thinking in creative theater production. He is a resident writer and performer with two improv comedy groups at The Magnet Theater in NYC, and his original musical POPE! The Musical (Fringe Festival NYC 2010 Winner: Outstanding Music and Lyrics) which he wrote the book and lyrics for played Off Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theater in 2010.

The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility will be performed one time only at The People's Improv Theater (The PIT, 123 East 24th St) on March 14th, 2011 at 8pm.

thespideyproject.blogspot.com.

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