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Total Rating: 
**
Previews: 
March 31, 2009
Opened: 
April 5, 2009
Ended: 
April 18, 2009
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Shotgun Players with Banana Bag & Bodice
Theater Type: 
off-off-Broadway
Theater: 
Abrons Arts Center - Harry de Jur Playhouse
Theater Address: 
466 Grand Street
Phone: 
866-811-4111
Website: 
beowulfnyc.com
Genre: 
Musical
Author: 
Book: Jason Craig; Music: Dave Malloy
Director: 
Rod Hipskind
Choreographer: 
Anna Ishida & Shaye Troha
Review: 

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage is a new down for downtown. Mack the Knife meets Sweeney Todd meets Beowulf, in the dark historical streets of violence put to music. But this composer surrenders Weill and Sondheim sophistication and smarts to banal punk melodies and lyrics.You either like nihilistic, repetitious, childish punk jokes or you don't. If you do, welcome to an irritating but amusing, well-directed and performed, big-band musical, and a very, very hip reduction of literature's oldest and most boring poem to an exercise in absurdity.

Cast: 
Jen Baker, Dan Bruno, Jason Craig (Beowulf), Ezra Gale, Benjamin Geller, Anna Ishida, Jessica Jellife, Christopher Kuckenbaker, Mario Maggio, Dave Malloy, Andre Nigoghossian, Andy Strain, Shaye Troha, Beth Wilmurt.
Technical: 
Props: Sig Hafstrom; Lighting: Miranda Hardy; Sound: Brendan West; Costumes: Kaibrina Buck w/ SF Bufoons. Dramaturg: Mallory Catlett.
Critic: 
Rhonda Coullet
Date Reviewed: 
April 2009