The Appointment | 2023
THE APPOINTMENT PLAYED ITS FINAL WINTER 2023 PERFORMANCE ON FEB 4
ABOUT THE SHOW
It’s time to check in for The Appointment, the critically acclaimed and outrageous musical satire singing and dancing through the absurdity and hypocrisy of the American abortion debate. From the acclaimed company Lightning Rod Special (Underground Railroad Game), The Appointment was named to the “Best Theater of 2019” lists in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Time Out NY.
Using cutting humor, catchy songs, and some very lively fetuses, The Appointment unpacks the many systems that disempower groups of people from making informed reproductive decisions with hilarious, devastating, and hilariously devastating results. Returning to New York for a limited run for the first time since the overturning of Roe v Wade, this “thoughtful and profoundly imaginative show concludes in a silence that is all the more eloquent for the sound and the fury that preceded it.” - The New York Times
January 12 - February 4, 2023
WP Theater
2162 Broadway
“The Appointment is one of the most improbable new musicals in New York. It’s also one of the most enlightening.”
CREATIVE TEAM
Lead Artist: Alice Yorke
Lead Book Writers: Alice Yorke, Eva Steinmetz, Scott R. Sheppard, and Alex Bechtel
Music, Lyrics and Arrangements: Alex Bechtel
Director: Eva Steinmetz
Co-Creators: Katie Gould, Jaime Maseda, Lee Minora, Brett Ashley Robinson and Brenson Thomas
Performers: Katie Gould, Jaime Maseda, Lee Minora, Brett Ashley Robinson, Scott R. Sheppard, Alice Yorke, Danny Wilfred
Production Stage Manager: Jo Fernandez
Assistant Stage Manager: Kelsey Vivian
Keys: Alex Bechtel
Drums: Mike Reilly
Bass: Laura Galindo
Production Design: Oona Curley
Lighting Design: Masha Tsimring
Costume Design: Rebecca Kanach
Sound Design: Nina Field
Props Design: Noah Mease
Choreographer: Melanie Cotton
Music Director: Alex Bechtel
General Management: Renee Blinkwolt and Lucy Jackson
Production Manager: Jes Levine
Executive Producers: Rachel Sussman and Erica Rotstein
Creative Directors: Steven Tartick and Jacob Cooper
Company Manager: A.J. Álvarez
General Management Assistant: Devin McCallion Fletcher
THE APPOINTMENT is made possible, in part, through participation in WP Theater's Space Program. The Space Program is WP's initiative to provide affordable space and discounted producing options to their artistic community.
THE APPOINTMENT was developed, in part, with assistance from The Orchard Project, and from Camp Fringe 2018, at FringeArts Philadelphia.
LRS celebrates that it takes many people and many drafts to make ensemble-generated work and would like to thank the following individuals for their inspiration and influence: Mason Rosenthal, Jenson Titus Lavallee, nicHi douglas, Meredith Sonnen, Anisa George, Adam Lazarus, Mariko Endo, Roblin Davis, and Jennifer Kidwell.
Photos by: Michael Kushner, Oona Curley, and Johanna Austin
PRESS AND ACCOLADES
New York Times Critics’ Pick, “a daring, clear-eyed work of political theater” -Laura Collins-Huges 2023
New Yorker featured review, “sniffs out taboos and hunts them down at the pace of a sprint” -Vinson Cunningham 2023
Best Theater of 2019 New York Magazine, “As wild as it was, I can’t remember ever so exactly recognizing the destabilizing way it feels to have a womb in America.” -Helen Shaw
Best Theater of 2019 New York Times, “the show was as quietly thoughtful as it was boisterously, hilariously transgressive.” -Laura Collins-Hughes
Best Theater of 2019 Time Out NY
New York Times Critics’ Pick, “This thoughtful, profoundly imaginative show concludes in a silence that is all the more eloquent for the sound and the fury that preceded it.” -Ben Brantley 2019
Seven Barrymore Award Nominations including Outstanding Musical and the Brown Martin Award
One Barrymore Award for Brett Robinson’s Outstanding Performance of a Supporting Actor in a Musical
Broad Street Review Review, “The Appointment’s genius [lies in] the compelling, matter-of-fact realism of its abortion-clinic scenes...”
Philly Life and Culture Review, “Lightning Rod Special does an impeccable job by getting their audience to think without being preachy. They indulge in humor to then catapult you into sincere truth.”
Philadelphia Dance Review, “The laughter that the show provokes becomes the glass of water we drink to digest the bitter pills the show prescribes.”
“A feverish explosion of the abortion debate that replaces rigid political views with a visceral exploration of the emotions that fuel both sides.”
WE’RE GOING ACROSS STATE LINES!
The Appointment: 2024 Tour
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