Monday, October 30, 2023

'Death' becomes her?: Rachel Bloom is up next at the Orpheum Theatre on 2nd Avenue

The post-"Stomp" life continues on at the Orpheum Theatre on Second Avenue between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place.

Signage is up now for the next production — Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winner Rachel Bloom's "Death, Let Me Do My Show" ...
The musical had a successful run earlier this fall off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The show is in the EV from Dec. 7 through Jan. 6. You can find tickets here.

Bloom might be best know as the star (and co-creator) of the CW musical dramedy, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" (2015-2019). 

"Stomp" ended its 29-year run at the Orpheum in early January. The first post-"Stomp" production, the burlesque "Star Wars" parody "The Empire Strips Back," closed on July 20 — one month earlier than planned.

"Death" seems like a throwback to the theater's days in the 1980s, when the Orpheum was well-known for Off-Broadway productions such as Sandra Bernhard's "Without You I'm Nothing," Eric Bogosian's "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" and John Leguizamo's "Mambo Mouth" (not to mention "Little Shop of Horrors").   

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I saw the first run of this at the Lucille Lortel theatre in September. She’s phenomenal. Go and see it if you can!

Eden Bee said...

Crazy Ex Girlfriend was hilarious. I love Bloom.

Anonymous said...

Wow, how cool! Hopefully this is a trend for the theater bringing in some exciting shows in the future

marjorie said...

I have tickets and I'm so excited! I was bummed to miss it (and it sold out) in the West Village. She is truly brilliant and weird and humane.