This new rock musical is a dark, biting, tragicomic peek at the criminally insane and the justice system that abuses them. The musical's form is reminiscent of The Who's "Tommy," in that it is staged entirely as a rock concert.
The piece is also a cry from the conscience of a lawyer who made a living representing the rights of the criminally insane. Playwright/lyricist Denis Woychuk is a former attorney who represented the rights of mental patients for more than ten years in the '80s and '90s, working out of Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, a maximum security hospital in New York. The musical is actually a dark, symbolic treatment of his 1996 autobiographical book, Attorney for the Damned (The Free Press), in which he confessed, "I live with the painful knowledge that I am somehow complicit in the horrible acts some of my clients commit after I ease their legal constraints and help them get released."
CAST: Allison Johnson, Ray Fisher, Denny Blake, Brian Ferrari, Vadim Newquist, Maria Dalbotten, Teddy Williams and Juliana Smith. The chorus includes Norma Gomez, Amanda Ochoa and Boksim Jeon.
Production design is by Gwendolyn E. Witkin. Technical director Lance Harkins. Costume design is by Jeaho Lee.
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