The Studio Theatre - Stage 4 (Washington, DC)
The Studio Theatre presents Adding Machine: A Musical This musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's expressionistic masterpiece tells the story of Mr. Zero, a man whose life is driven into chaos when he's replaced at his job by a mechanical adding machine. This daring, timely and wildly imaginative show earned rave reviews in its recent Off-Broadway premiere.
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The last date listed for Adding Machine: A Musical was Sunday November 8, 2009 / 2:30pm. (view all dates)
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Excellent production of a difficult and intriguing work. Uncompromising, and not for everyone. More like Wozzeck (the opera) than a musical, so be guided accordingly as to your own tastes. Extremely well staged and performed.
Seating is general admission. Doors open approximately 15 minutes before curtain, but the line starts forming about 30 minutes before curtain. To ensure your best choice of seats, arrive early.
Excellent production: sets, staging, costumes, performances, music, text. Loved everything about it.
Excellent production and very thought provoking, but beware, I found the story to be very depressing.
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Adding Machine: A Musical
by Joshua Schmidt and Jason Loewith
directed by Jason Loewith
Elmer Rice’s expressionistic masterpiece re-imagined in a stunning new musical! After losing his job to a machine, Mr. Zero’s monotonous life swirls into chaos. With jangling, percussive music reflecting period influences – including early-20th-century modernists, Tin Pan Alley and gospel – this work conjures a vision of American life in the 1920s at odds with that decade’s popular image as a happy-go-lucky era ended only by the Depression. It is a vision that feels eerily in tune with our own unsettled economy.
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