Red Tide Blooming
Description
In this musical celebration of freakhood, classic Mermaid Parade antics swim alongside a collective creative visualization of Armageddon in the murky waters of gentrification and cultural homogenization.
Premiered PS 122 with puppets by Basil Twist, choreography by Julie Atlas Muz and performed by a cast of some of New York’s most gifted performers (including: Dirty Martini, Tigger Bianca Leigh, Bridget Everett, and Ruby Lynn Reyner),
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“Quite entertaining” -- The New York Times
"If you're in search and/or in need of authentically edgy, exhilarating, and fearless musical theatre that can liberate the form from hidebound traditions and make it dangerous and relevant, then Taylor Mac's extraordinary new extravaganza "Red Tide Blooming" is the show you've been waiting for.”-- nytheater.com
"Taylor Mac's bawdy and exotic performance art takes aim at our culture's obsession with sameness and profitability, blending burlesque, spoken text, and dance to tweak gender and cultural cliches and create... an entertainingly freaky allegory of the evils of gentrification." -- The New Yorker
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