Lysistrata Jones
The Walter Kerr Theatre (219 W 48th street)
Previews Begin: Saturday, November 12, 2011
Opening Night : Wednesday, December 14, 2011
THIS FALL, GIVE IT UP FOR A NEW MUSICAL ABOUT FAITH, HOOPS, AND CHASTITY...
Following a critically acclaimed off-Broadway run, the new musical comedy, Lysistrata Jones, will transfer to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre (219 W 48th street) this fall, with preview performances on Saturday, November 12, 2011 and an official opening on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 6:30pm
Lysistrata Jones is written by Tony nominated bookwriter Douglas Carter Beane (Sister Act, Xanadu, The Little Dog Laughed) and composer/lyricist Lewis Flinn (The Divine Sister), and is directed and choreographed by Tony nominee Dan Knechtges (Xanadu, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee).
The Athens University basketball team hasn't won a game in 30 years. But when spunky transfer student Lysistrata Jones dares the squad's fed-up girlfriends to stop "giving it up" to their boyfriends until they win a game, their legendary losing streak could be coming to an end. In this boisterous new musical comedy, Lyssie J. and her girl-power posse give Aristophanes' classic comedy a sexy, modern twist and take student activism to a whole new level.
Lysistrata Jones is produced by Paula Herold and Alan Wasser