The Last Bimbo of The Apocalypse
book, music and lyrics by Michael Breslin
book, additional music and lyrics by Patrick Foley
choreographed by Jack Ferver
directed by and developed with Rory Pelsue
The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 W 42nd St
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Overview
A New Pop Musical
In 2006, The New York Post infamously labeled Paris, Lindsay and Britney “The Three Bimbos of the Apocalypse.” But who is the fourth girl in that famous photo? Today, three Gen Z internet sleuths investigate that icon – Coco, an early 2000’s one-hit wonder who mysteriously vanished. Their epic musical quest leads them to uncover the truth, deliver justice and rewrite pop history.
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Creative Team
Michael Breslin
Book, Music and LyricsMichael Breslin is a writer, director, and actor. As a creative director of Fake Friends, with Foley: Circle Jerk (Pulitzer finalist, Obie Award) and This American Wife (FourthWall Theatricals, NYTW, “Best Theater 2021” LA Times and New Yorker). Additional: Invasive Species (director, written by Maia Novi), Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, TV development with A24 and film development with Jeremy O. Harris. Forthcoming: Bikini (writer/director, starring Cat Rodríguez). Doctorate and MFA, Yale. BA, Hamilton College.
Patrick Foley
Book, Additional Music and LyricsPatrick Foley is a recent Pulitzer Prize Drama finalist for his play Circle Jerk, a contemporary satire featuring outrageous situations and language repurposed from the internet to skewer online culture and question what identities we have permission to claim. Patrick is also one half of a successful ongoing collaboration with Michael Breslin, in which both write, direct and act in their multimedia pieces. With four plays under their belt, they have been produced at New York Theater Workshop, Ars Nova’s Ant Fest, Exponential Theater Company and are now in residency at Ars Nova. Patrick adapted and co-wrote Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical alongside Michael. Most recently, Michael and Patrick wrote and performed This American Wife, a livestream, multi-camera internet play about The Real Housewives. Foley is an MFA graduate from Yale School of Drama and a BFA graduate from NYU’S Tisch School of the Arts. He has performed at New York Theater Workshop, Incubator Arts, Judson Memorial Church, The Tank, The McKittrick, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare on the Sound, and Shakespeare Theatre Company. Foley can also be seen in Season 2 Episode 4 of FBI: Most Wanted on CBS as Dennis Williams.
Jack Ferver
ChoreographerJack Ferver is a New York based writer, choreographer, and performer. Their genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” (The New Yorker), inhabit while inciting psychological and socio-political issues, particularly in the realms of queerness, gender, and power struggles. Their work has been presented in New York City at New York Live Arts; New Museum; The Kitchen; Crossing the Line; Abrons Arts Center; Gibney Dance; Performance Space 122; Performa 11; Danspace Project; and Dixon Place. Domestically and internationally at Mass MoCA (MA); the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (NY); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (OR); the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA (ME); the Institute of Contemporary Art (MA); Fusebox Festival (TX); Diverse Works (TX); Temperance Hall (Australia); and Théâtre de Vanves (France). They have collaborated with their partner, the visual artist and filmmaker, Jeremy Jacob on performances and short films which draw from both artist’s research of cinema, queerness, memory, and AIDS. The duo’s most recent film Nowhere Apparent, was presented by AllArts in 2023. Ferver is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists. They teach at Bard College.
Rory Pelsue
DirectorRory Pelsue is an Obie-winning director of new and classic plays, operas, musicals, and live-stream performances. He is the Resident Director of Fake Friends, where he has helmed This American Wife and Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Drama League Nominee Circle Jerk. His work has also been seen at The New Group, Heartbeat Opera, Primary Stages, Ars Nova, The Mercury Store, CultureHub, Southcoast Repertory Theater, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Portland Stage, Boise Contemporary Theater, Northwestern University, Quinnipiac University, Queens College, and the Yale School of Drama, among other venues. rorypelsue.com
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