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Medusa was kinda problematic  :/

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Medusa is having an industry reading in NYC!

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Melanie from Dislyte 🐍✨

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Medusa by  Zoe Lacchei.

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Medusa was kinda problematic  :/

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medusa, trying to turn you to stone, but you accidentally called her “melissa” when you first walked in and now you’re too embarrassed to look at her. “it’s alright” she keeps saying “i get it all the time” but you still won’t look. u don’t even remember the stone thing until later

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Medusa was kinda problematic  :/

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Medusa

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Medusa and her Sneks just want a girlfriend

Click for better quality!

This is what I doodled instead of starting any of my alevel art pieces oops

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Are you a fan of Greek Mythology theatre such as Hadestown, Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, Mythic, and The Lightning Thief? Do you want to make more friends with similar interests?

Join The Greek Mythsicals Discord Server! Just read the #rules channel before joining and have fun.

If you’re having trouble joining and/or would like to PM with the mod before joining, my discord handle is musain#5696 and I’ll add you directly!

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A new song just got posted to the website/soundcloud

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Rehearsal photos from the show’s instagram page!

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Medusa The Musical Masterpost

(lots of M’s, wow.)

So, Medusa The Musical (Click the link, it’s the website) is an upcoming musical that tells the story of the myth of Medusa🐍. You can listen to it here.

So, you want to know more about the show and the people involved?

Easy! Below I’ve linked sources to the original myth, and other works by the people involved.

The Source

Like all Ancient Greek Myths, there’s no singular “source” for the tale of Medusa. This handy link here, however, is a good starting point, it’s sort of like a sparknotes of it. Linking anything else would be a huge rabbit hole of infinite websites/reading materials, so just start with that one for now!

The Crew

So, Medusa’s creative team consists of a lot of cool future Tony Award Winners. They have bios on the website, but I’ll link (some of) their projects here for easy accessibility and as a summary. If I leave something out, its due to my own ease and accessibility, not because I see it as an unimportant project.

The show was written by Wes Braver and Rachel Dean. Wes Braver has worked on other shows in the past such as Hear No Evil in the Year 2090, Galapago, the song cycle Space Cases, and the concept album METADATA. He also wrote songs for the moviemusical Chatsworth and he wrote the score for the film Youth. Rachel Dean has played the piano for the Broadway productions of Hamilton and Moulin Rouge! - pretty mighty résumé, if you ask me! Gods, only in my pipedreams will I get to do that. She's working on other shows too - The Anxiety Project, Unmasked, and The Ballad of Janis Matthews and the Dodo Scouts! [Also, insert a Preludes joke about a “Rach” who plays the piano here.] Sylvie Scowcroft is the producer! She also worked on Hear/2090 and Galapago with Wes, and she's produced Company by Sondheim as well in the past! Hot damn!

Chloe Treat is the director - hell yes I pretty much exclusively stan female directors at this point, especially in the Greek Myth shows field. As an anecdote, Chloe is in a relationship with Or Matias, who was the MD for some Dave Malloy shows such as Preludes and Octet and Great Comet, so it’s cool that I get to stan another musical theatre power couple! (Seriously, I knew that I recognized the name.) As for Chloe, you can find some stuff on her website. She’s mostly directed college/university shows, but she also did Eco Village off-Broadway. Looking back, that makes me even more sad to have missed that show.

Matt Castle the music director and oh I love him already because he’s been at the Signature Theatre in the past. Most of his stuff is regional - but he did do a number of off-Broadway shows and was an actor in the Company 2007 revival! He's also currently working on Scotland PA off-Broadway with his husband as an orchestrator!!

Kate Lumpkin is the casting director. Waaayyy too much to list here. Here is her website for ease.

Kai Harada is the Sound Designer. He worked in some Broadway shows I love such as Head Over Heels, The Band's Visit, Amélie, Sunday in the Park With George, Fun Home (lesbian rights!), and a couple of A.R.T. and Off-Broadway shows, etc.

Frank Galgano is the Creative Consultant. Guess what - he’s married to the music director, Matt Castle! 🏳️‍🌈It appears as if a lot of their work seems to intersect!

Evan Bernardin Productions/Gwynne Richmond is the general management team. Another hefty list of other projects, needless to say, so I’ll just link y’all to their site.

The Cast

Oh boy, I love the Medusa cast so much. Particularly Kuhoo Verma. But more on them later. Half the cast has been in either a Dave Malloy show or Nikola Tesla Drops The Beat, which are my two Niche Theatre Brands™️ - that and the fact that its a Greek Mythology musical makes me legally obligated to stan forever, as the cool kids say. But I digress!

The show features Alexia Sielo as Medusa herself. She was an understudy in We Are The Tigers Off-Broadway and is a cofounder of womenofcoloronbroadway!!

L. Steven Taylor will be portraying Perseus, and he’s been in The Lion King (Broadway) several times - you can see behind-the-scenes pictures on playbill.com!

Kate Shindle is Athena, and she’s also the president of Actor’s Equity, which is....incredible, honestly. She was Vivienne in the Original Broadway Production of Legally Blonde.

Theo Stockman is Poseidon. He's been in Hair, American Idiot, and American Psycho.

Heidi Blickenstaff is Steno. She’s been in numerous shows as well, like Something Rotten!, The Little Mermaid, [title of show], and The Full Monty.

Ally Bonino is Euryale, and the project I primarily know Ally from is a weird electronic rock musical that portrays Nikola Tesla as a DJ who gets into rap battles with Thomas Edison. She played his pigeon friend and her solo slaps.

Mykal Kilgore is Tiresias - he was also in Tesla along with Ally - he was Edison! He also writes solo music, and he has an album called A Man Born Black, which is really lovely. He was in the Jesus Christ Superstar concert as well!

Vivienne Cleary will be Eritha, and she’s very up-and-coming. She's done a lot of regional stuff and the off-bway production of Once Upon A Mattress.

Kuhoo Verma is Karphathia... Kuhoo fucking Verma, y’all, the person that I cried in front of at Octet. Kuhoo is a legend. She’s barely 23 years old and she’s already out here living her best life! She’s also openly nonbinary and queer, which makes me really happy. She’s been in Octet by Dave Malloy (!!!) and The Big Sick (a movie, not a musical/play, highly recommended). She’s also very sweet. I have a bit of a crush on her, not gonna lie.

Nick Belton is Antiochus/Archon, and he has also worked with Dave Malloy in the past. He starred in Great Comet as Andrey/Old Prince Bolkonsky. He was also in the most recent Carousel revival! He starred in Hair too, so that’s another former project that some of the cast members share.

Last but never least, Justin Gregory Lopez is Belo, and he was also in Octet along with Kuhoo Verma!!

Long story short, this musical is a masterpiece with super talented people in it and I am hyped.