Lizzie – The Lizzie Borden Musical – Pullman vs. Paxton Productions @ Broadway Performance Hall (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
Lizzie Borden takes center stage in this ferocious, femme-fronted rock musical. In the dog days of 1892, she took an ax and … well, you know the rest.
Muckraking journalists made her a bicoastal media sensation overnight. An all-out spectacle, the show’s provocative delivery oozes attitude and simmering tension with a kinetic urgency that hums under the surface. Using a gasoline-soaked rock score, and based on the historical record, Lizzie — a “rock musical in 40 whacks” — explores the strange alchemy leading up to the murders, her controversial acquittal of all charges, and the creation of a new American myth.
General admission seating. Tickets are $32.50.
*****
Book, music, & lyrics by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, & Alan Stevens Hewitt
Directed by Georgina Spelvin
Music directed by Dustin Schisler
Run dates: opens 9/27, closing 10/5
Mask-required dates: 10/4