R/Evolution

THE ROBERT MOSS THEATER  presents

R/EVOLUTION

Book by WILLIAM MOULTON and M M De VOE

Music and Lyrics by WILLIAM MOULTON
Director:  RICHARD ST GEORGE
Choreography:  WILLIAM MOULTON
Projection Design:  DAVID BENGALI
Lighting Design:  AMITH CHANDRASHAKER
Set Design:  SCOTT DAHL
Sound Design:  EMERSON DALY
Costume Design:  ARI FULTON
Video Engineer:  JON BREMNER
Production Stage Manager: LINDSEY GRADWOHL

Cast:  MYKEL VAUGHN, DEBBIE WILLIAMS, ALISON ROSE MUNN, JAMES PARKS, CLARK WILLIAMS, ERIC PADILLA, JESSI ST GEORGE

Choreographic Ensemble:  GEORGINA BATES, MEGAN NORDLE, ALEXANDER BETKA, COLIN RANF, ARIEL THARPE, KEVIN PINERO

The Robert Moss Theater
440 Lafayette Street between Astor Place and East 4th Street, NYC

For more information, visit their website:   http://www.r-evolution-the-musical.com

May 30 - June14, 2015

R/Evolution is a new musical with dance and multi-media set 150 years into the future with a scientific bent centered around corporate domination versus our present system of countries with their respective governments ruling the world. The leaders in the corporate hierarchy have suppressed emotions caused by hormones and other factors and have created robotic-like humans in a very sterile environment. Psychothrobics was created through dance and movement to control emotions. However, through a successful clone from the DNA of a strand of hair from a woman 150 years before, emotions abound and a pair of scientists begin daring experiments that threaten their very existence as well as corporate domination. What will happen to the ruthless governing paradigm when freedom of expression is unleashed?

Overall, this story appeals to a general audience but also to research scientists who research the human genome which is the map of your DNA, the double helix that contains all your genes. Your genome is composed of 23 pairs of chromosomes and what the scientists in the play were experimenting with to create a human clone from the year 2015.

As a side note which is a tough comparison, I'm accustomed to watching dance choreography On Broadway and with the American Ballet so I think the choreography needs work but it could have been the stage was too small to accommodate all those dancers. If I were to imitate Neil Rosen's method of reviewing films, I'd give this Sci-Fi production two apples out of four.

- Laura Thompson -

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