Music by Jed FeuerBook and Lyrics by Boyd Graham
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.
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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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