Photo of the show’s cast at a recent rehearsal.
A show with a unique title, Disaster! A 1970’s Disaster Movie Musical, began previews last night at St. Luke’s Theatre, 308 W. 46th Street, New York City. Written by Seth Rudestsky and John Plotnick, the show is a take off on the action that was famous in big movies of the 1970’s where a disaster hits and survival is the plot line.
According to the press release, the year is 1979 when:
All the hottest New York City A-Listers are putting on their platform shoes and polyester disco shirts and heading to the grand opening of Manhattan’s first floating casino and discotheque. Little do they know that the pier built to house the huge boat was drilled into the center of a dangerous and unstable fault-line.
The show uses songs from the 1970’s such as Hot Stuff, I Am Woman, Knock On Wood, Daybreak, and Signed, Sealed Delivered. The cast includes Mary Testa, Tom Riis Farrell, Michele Ragusa, Jennifer Simard, Seth Rudetsky and others.
For more information, visit the show’s website, www.disastermusical.com.