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Desperate Measures
Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 8:00PM

The York Theatre Company
619 Lexington Ave.
(Enter on 54th St. between Lexington/3rd Ave)
New York, NY 10022
The York Theatre is located inside Saint Peter’s Church - enter via glass façade on south side of 54th St. just east of Lexington and directly across from 641 Lexington. Take elevator down to Floor LL2.
SUBWAY: E or M train to 53rd St./Lexington Ave or 6 train to 51st St. PARKING: Special discounted rate offered with York validation through Icon Metropolitan 51 garage on E 51st St. btwn Lexington/3rd Ave. ($17 Mon. thru Sat. - up to 5 hours)


“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall…” The York Theatre Company opens its 2017-2018 Season with Desperate Measures, a hilarious new western musical very loosely based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. It's funny, it's sexy, it's country, and it's a New York premiere with music by award winning composer David Friedman (Scandalous) and book and lyrics by two-time Tony nominee Peter Kellogg (Anna Karenina). In 1890, in a territory out West, Johnny Blood, a hot -tempered young cowboy is sentenced to hang for killing a man in a bar fight. His sister, a novice nun in a nearby mission, is persuaded to plead with a corrupt governor to spare her brother’s life. The governor promises to pardon Johnny if his sister, the sister, will do his bidding for the night. Adding to the humorous complications are a hard-bitten sheriff, a voluptuous saloon girl and a priest who reads Nietzsche.