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Bayonets of Angst

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Lyrics
  
Rick Kunzi

Playwrights
  
Rick Kunzi, Justin Zeppa

Lyricist
  
Rick Kunzi

Composers
  
Adam Barnosky, Rick Kunzi

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Music
  
Rick Kunzi & Adam Barnosky

Book
  
Rick Kunzi & Justin Zeppa

Productions
  
2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival

Characters
  
Seward, Grant, Mary Todd Lincoln, George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, Zebulon, Robert E. Lee, Sherman

Similar
  
Academia Nuts, Hair, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Next to Normal

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Bayonets of Angst is an original bluegrass musical comedy about the American Civil War.

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Production History

In 2013, Bayonets of Angst was a finalist in the Ken Davenport Ten Minute Play Contest.

The premiere production of Bayonets of Angst was part of the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival and starred Tony Award nominee J. Robert Spencer, as Abraham Lincoln. The NYMF production will also feature Paul Whitty ("Once"), Herndon Lackey ("LoveMusik"), Brian Charles Rooney ("The Threepenny Opera"), Michael Abbott Jr. (Shotgun Stories), Ian Lowe ("Murder for Two") and Ryan Andes ("Big Fish").

Critical reception

David Clark of Broadway World called Bayonets of Angst "entirely fresh and novel...featuring a waggishly witty book, hysterical lyrics and a brilliantly catchy bluegrass score," and "simultaneously everything and nothing you'd expect from a musicalizied account of the Civil War." Broadway Spotted reviewed that the show was "full of jokes, puns, play on words and everything in between," and "with non-stop laughter and beautiful music, it truly was an enjoyable time." Theater Mania called Bayonets of Angst "[an] irreverent and hyper theatrical production," with "a jaunty bluegrass score performed by the first-rate musicians."

CHARGED.fm listed Bayonets of Angst as a "Hot New Musical" and described it as an "exciting production that we think you should see."

References

Bayonets of Angst Wikipedia