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 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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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."