JWM x Showpeople: Brigadoon in the Park

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Showpeople Theatre Collective Inc

Showpeople Theatre Collective Inc fosters creativity and community through innovative theatrical productions, focusing on new works that inspire and engage audiences while highlighting social issues and diverse voices in the performing arts.

Showpeople Theatre Collective presents its first musical in its New Works Reading Series. Yes, Virginia is an imagining of what led up to the writing of The Sun&#39;s famous &quot;Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus&quot; editorial. Following the editorial&#39;s author, Francis Pharcellus Church, Yes, Virginia tells the story of an uncaring journalist who finally finds a cause to believe in when he meets Amelia O&#39;Connor, an immigrant woman facing unemployment and eviction in the 1890s Lower East Side of Manhattan. Yes, Virginia&nbsp;features book, music, and lyrics by Showpeople Resident Artist Colby Thompson.

Yes, Virginia Reading

Taking inspiration from Dropout TV and Freestyle Love Supreme, this pay-what-you-can performance is bound to be full of unexpected musical theatre surprises (even for the cast!). Making up most of what they&rsquo;re doing on the spot, a team of performers and a pianist will devise their way through a brand new, IMPROVISED musical theatre work.

Monday Night Musical Theatre Improv

Provincial England, 1874. A man is murdered, and a woman is to blame. But is it ever that simple? TESS, A New Musical sets a feminist reimagining of Thomas Hardy&#39;s classic novel to a visceral, folk-rock score. Join us as Tess and her community of women struggle to take the fate of their work, their bodies and their lives into their own hands.

TESS, A New Musical

A political operative walks into a small town. The voters are angry. The mayor is missing. The apples are excellent. Tillie&rsquo;s assignment is simple: find out why the voters of Quiddawick changed parties in the last election. But the locals blame an infestation of &ldquo;parasites,&rdquo; a charismatic pastor is gaining power, and the deeper Tillie digs, the harder it becomes to leave. What begins as an election postmortem unravels into a folk-horror nightmare. Quiddawick is a gothic mystery musical about how the seeds of fear take root, and the fruit we dare to harvest.

Quiddawick

Adapted from the Ed Wood film Plan 9 From Outer Space, and known as &ldquo;the worst film in the history of cinema&rdquo; and &ldquo;so bad it&rsquo;s good&rdquo;, Plan 9: A Z-Movie Musical&nbsp;follows a group of humans who band together to stop alien beings who&rsquo;ve come to Earth to eradicate all of humanity&hellip; by raising the dead. Playing off 1950s sci-fi/horror tropes, Plan 9&nbsp;is a spoofy, spooky, and occasionally heartfelt journey of what happens when men are given too much power over their world. Plan 9: A Z-Movie Musical was originally written from June 29th to July 12th, 2026, by the Showpeople Theatre Collective as part of their Original Musical Workshop program. Its original collaborators were Chance Anding, Eddie Bean, Braylee Bennett, Amanda DeLalla, Arturo de las Fuentes, Ruth Fishman, Brighton Valor Horan, Travis Lavigne, Miles Messier, Rocky Nardone, Nick Navari, Alex Syiek, Colby Thompson, and Daniel J.F. Wolfert.

Plan 9: A Z-Movie Musical

A double concert of two Showpeople musicals&mdash;Making Banks: The Musical&nbsp;follows protagonist Robin on the precipice of her 18th birthday. For such a monumental event, her family requires her to fulfill a monumental task: planning (and successfully executing) a grand bank heist. Lost Justice follows a group of college students after a peer was murdered at a party. The investigation takes us through what happened that night&mdash; oh, and did we mention some of them have superpowers?

Making Banks x Lost Justice: A Double Feature Concert

We all know a little bit about the mythic Trojan War&hellip; but what led up to it? &nbsp;Our mythical-hero-turned-narrator, Achilles, helps to tell the musical (and unusually fruity) story of how the exclusion of his goddess aunt from his parents&rsquo; wedding eventually led to his own tragic fate as told in Homer&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Iliad&rdquo;. With a new extension into a second act, we dive into Achilles&rsquo; whereabouts for his approximate 7-10 years AWAY from battle, and Prince Paris&rsquo; turmoil within.&nbsp;

To the Fairest: A New Musical

December 2012. The world is just about to end (according to the Mayans, anyway), and it very well might be for a small theatre troupe trying to put up a musical adaptation of a holiday favorite film: A Christmas Story. When the rights to the movie get pulled out from beneath them by some up and coming writers, they pivot HARD into one night of frenzied adapting of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. A metatheatrical retelling of this Christmas classic, &hellip;Carol? invites us to remember what makes the holidays so special to so many people. Note: ...Carol? features a preshow performance, starting roughly 15 minutes before curtain.

...Carol?

Our mythic Greek musical gets a TYA makeover! A condensed, one-act version of the full work, To the Fairest: TYA Edition serves as the most fun you and your family will have in a 45 minute timespan.&nbsp; With a score spanning between genres of folk, rock, and classic musical theatre, and a book filled with Gen Alpha quips, this show is best suited to middle school ages and up. Any avid Percy Jackson fan or Greek myth nerd will be able to enjoy!

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Plan 9: A Z-Movie Musical

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TESS, A New Musical

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Quiddawick

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Plan 9: A Z-Movie Musical

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