I join forces with Juilliard-trained playwright Adam Szymkowicz, writing music for his lyrics in his “clown noir” play CLOWN BAR, which has a one-night-only performance in Rising Phoenix Rep’s Cino Nights series. Performed in an actual bar, the play tells the story of Happy, a clown-turned-cop who goes back into the seedy den of clown crime to settle an old score …
CLOWN BAR
by Adam Szymkowicz
directed by Kip Fagan
Lyrics by Adam Szymkowicz and Adam Overett
Music by Adam Overett
with Alex Anfanger, Brett Aresco, Stephen Bel Davies, Sam Breslin Wright, Jamie Effros, Jessy Hodges, Beth Hoyt, Jessica Pohly, Dominic Spillane, and Stephen Stout
Long ago Happy left the Clown Bar and the organized clown crime world to work for the good guys. Now his junkie brother Timmy has been murdered, and Happy returns to his old life to ask a few questions. Can he go home again without getting sucked into the seedy clown underbelly of vice and violence? And will he survive the gun toting clowns who used to be his friends? Or Blinky, the lady clown he left behind?
ONE NIGHT ONLY: Sunday, June 19 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Seventh Street Small Stage