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Underground Theater
The Black Crook: An Original, Magical and Spectacular Musical Drama
Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 7:00PM

Abrons Arts Center, Underground Theater
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
F/M to Delancey/Essex; B/D to Grand St.; M14A to Pitt St.


In September 2016 The Black Crook – often considered to be the first piece of musical theatre that conforms to the modern notion of a "book musical" – celebrates its 150th anniversary, marking the rumored birth of the American Musical. From the rubble of the Civil War, The Black Crook emerged taking an entire country by storm; an unprecedented commercial juggernaut that contributed, whether first musical or no, to a popular melting-pot entertainment that blended art both high and low. The Black Crook is an origin story for the spectacle that is America, and 150 years after the fact, it will be exhumed once again. This production is conceived and directed by Joshua William Gelb.

World Premiere