SPANDEX
Book, music and lyrics by Daniel F. Levin
Music by Julian Blackmore
Book by Annie Grunow
Direction and choreography by Liz Picoli
Asylum NYC
(123 East 24th Street)
September 17-27
Multi-platinum recording artist, performer, and 80s pop icon Tiffany will make her New York theater debut starring in Spandex The Musical, a new aerobics-based musical. The 10-day exclusive run will play Asylum NYC, located at 123 E 24th Street in New York City, beginning Thursday, September 17, with opening night set for Saturday, September 19, and a final performance on Sunday, September 27.
Tickets and additional information are available at www.spandexmusical.com.
Tiffany will be joined in the cast by Sims Lamason, Catherine Ashmore Bradley, Nawaf Nooruddin and William Boyajian. Additional cast to be announced.
Tiffany stars as Linda Gufstafson, a housewife who befriends Lorraine Stubenski (Sims Lamason), a former gymnastics prodigy turned aerobics instructor. Lorraine teaches a class at Bronze Bodies Gym, run by the menacing and poorly mulleted Trip Allen. The cast also features Catherine Ashmore Bradley (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway, Nickelodeon’s “The Really Loud House”) as Lorraine’s protégé, Dori Jenson. Together, the three women take on Trip Allen in the only place he may yet be vulnerable: the 1988 Crystal Light National Aerobics Championship, hosted by Alan Thicke.
Half The Karate Kid underdog story, half A Chorus Line, and two-thirds viral video that inspired a nation, Spandex The Musical more than adds up, honoring the world’s greatest aerobic athletes and the outfits they donned.