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The Big Bang

Full-Length Musical, Comedy  /  2m

Music by Jed Feuer
Book and Lyrics by Boyd Graham

In an elegant Manhattan apartment, two hilariously eager creators present a frenetic backers' audition for their $83.5 million, 12-hour stage history of the world, from creation to the present.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    75 Minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

Details

Summary

Performed by its wacky creators off-Broadway, this frenetic entertainment is long on shtick and historical hilarity. It is staged as a backers' audition for an $83.5 million, 12-hour stage history of the world from creation to the present. Eighteen side-splitting numbers portraying Adam and Eve, Attila the Hun, the building of the pyramids, Julius Caesar and Columbus, among others, give potential investors a taste of the impending extravaganza. In the process, the opulent Park Avenue apartment "borrowed" for the occasion is trashed as the two snatch its furnishings to create makeshift costumes while singing and clowning their way through inventive recreations of the past, stopping occasionally for a little supplicating show biz patter.

History
The Big Bang premiered off-Broadway at the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre on March 1, 2000. Directed by Boyd Graham, the production featured Graham and Jed Feuer, with Jeff Swinkin as Albert/Keyboard Player.

JED
BOYD

ALBERT/KEYBOARD PLAYER

Plus an onstage keyboard player.

  • Time Period Present Day
  • Setting The living room of an elegant Park Avenue apartment in New York City. The present.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No intermission
  • Duration 75 Minutes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

“World history as a camp musical... a Bang-up send-up... inspired nonsense!” – New York Daily News

“Utterly silly but very amusing.” – New York Times

“An inventively staged fiesta of eye-rolling idiocy.” – Time Out

“Fueled by the same 'let's put on a show' energy that has inspired countless MGM movies and real life ambitions, but with a distinctly irreverent twist. In some of the zippiest 80 minutes you will spend in the theatre, our two aspiring Broadway Babies give us an amalgam of historical events, from the creation of the world ('One Big Bang') to the Garden of Eden ('Free Food and Frontal Nudity'), through the Egyptians and Roman Empire right up through Woodstock and a laundry list of 20th Century names and events.” – Chicago Stage & Screen

Music

Song Samples

The Big Bang
Free Food and Frontal Nudity
Pyramid
The Colosseum
Atilla
New World
Cookin' for Henry
Holding Out for a Hero or Pocahontas
Today's Just Yesterday's Tomorrow
Potato
Loving Him
1. “Cocktail Overture”
2. “One Big Bang!”
2a. “Creation”
3. “Free Food & Frontal Nudity”
4. “Pyramid”
5. “Egyptian Underscore”
6. “Nefertiti”
7. “Pyramid (Reprise)”
8. “Intro to Caesar”
9. “Wake Up, Caesar!”
10. “Surreal”
11. “One Helluva Job”
12. “Colosseum”
13. “Leo”
14. “Attila”
14a. “Nuns”
15. “New World”
16. “Cookin’ for Henry”
16a. “Cookin’ Playoff”
17. “White Water”
17a. “Pocahontas – The Dating Scene”
17b. “Pocahontas Playoff”
18. “French Underscores”
19. “Today’s Just Yesterday’s Tomorrow”
19a. “Today Playoff”
20. “Amber Lee Underscore”
21. “Potato”
22. “Asian Ladies”
23. “Loving Him”
24. “Woodstock – The Event”
25. “Twentieth Century”
26. “Bows & Exit Music”
  • Musical Style Classic Broadway
  • Orchestra Size Piano Only

Licensing & Materials

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1 data disc with required track
This title is orchestrated for Piano Only.

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Authors

Author

Boyd Graham

Jed Feuer

Born in Los Angeles, Jed Feuer was moved to New York City at the age of six weeks. Growing up in a musical family, he studied trumpet under Joe Wilder (subsequently with Carmine Caruso). Piano with Eugene Istomin followed shortly thereafter, which led to an immersion in harmo ...

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