Sunday, January 28, 2007

LITTLE BUILDING: Back By Popular Demand!

Come fall in love with a play about a building who falls in love with a man. Weird! Nice costumes! Good music! Cool! I'm in it! Look...I'm INSIDE a building. Just like in real life.



February 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, & 18. . .

Little Building:
a musical melodrama

directed by Nick Jones
with book and lyrics by Nick Jones
music by Benjamin Ickies

"breathtakingly ridiculous" -Nonsense NYC

"Finally, a modern love story which truly reflects the city in which we
live. . ." -Village Voice

"Brilliant. . . the songs rock, the jokes spark and you actually believe that these buildings are alive."
-Murphguide.com

As featured in the NY Observer, Gawker and the NY Times!



THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT WAS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT
RESERVE TICKETS NOW!

Nick Jones, playwright, puppeteer, and licensed real estate agent, melds his
interests in this musical featuring singing real estate. Music provided by
Benjamin Ickies of the Ambitous Orchestra.

Ralph is a man trying to develop land in New York's hottest outlying
neighborhood - Alaska. He begins a metaphysical love affair with a talking
building, and together they attempt to create a Newer York City for the Arctic.
A bizarre and heartbreaking melodrama, in perfect proportion to the city we live in.

February 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, & 18. . .
@ 7:30pm
$15 (advance tickets strongly recommended)
www.smarttix.com
Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211

with Corey Sullivan
Tamar Schoenberg
Jessica Delfino
Katie McClenahan
Mark Sam Rosenthal
Peter J. Cook
Jarret Berenstein
& Jason Quarles
Costume design by Sarah Stansbury
Set design by Jane Parrott
Light design by Ku'uipo Curry
Sound design by Dan Kutcher
Choreography by Emily Reutlinger
Additional design by Annie Reichert

Originally performed as part of the EVOLVE theater series at Galapagos.

More about Nick:

Nick Jones is a playwright, director, puppet designer, and licensed real
estate agent. His work has been performed at chashama ("Canada's Mid-Riff")
the Bowery Poetry Club ("Sleepless Fishes" and "Crabquistador: Scavenger of
God") as well as the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's TBA Festival,
the Dublin Fringe Festival (first runner up, "Most Entertaining"), Ars Nova,
the Brick Theater, The Kitchen, and P.S. 122. He is a founding member and
artistic director of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, which is (alternately or
simultaneously) a puppet troupe, band, and theater production company. He
has been an artist-in-residence at Galapagos, the Bowery Poetry Club, and at
the Hoontown Puppet Festival in Bangkok, and is a member of the Ars Nova
Play Group. As a puppet designer, he has created work for the Allstars Youth
Project (2/05) The Castillo Theater (3/05), for the 2004 Dream Parade in
Taiwan. He was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and graduated in 2001
from Bard College.

JOLLYSHIP IS NOT DEAD!!

Jollyship the Whiz-Bang recently was awarded a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation for development of their insect related puppet show "The Colonists!"

Jollyship the Whiz-Bang will team up with the Boston League of Women's Wrestlers for a Nautically Themed Wrestling Event at Galapagos on March 10th

Jollyship the Whiz-Bang will be restaging their rock opera "Crabquistador: Scavenger of God" at Ars Nova, starting March 13th and 20th.

Jollyship the Whiz-Bang's Nick Jones will be restaging his musical "Little Building" at Galapagos Art Space February 9,10,11, 16,17 & 18th.

New EP "Curse of the Ancient Legend" available now!!

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Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Pyrate Puppet Rock Opera Consortium
http://thewhizbang.org
http://myspace.com/jollyshipthewhizbang