The Toxic Avenger may sound like a kids’ show, but it is not. BAT put a warning on the 
show that it is not suitable for those under 13 years of age. Funny, yes. Very funny, yes. In fact, it is the funniest thing to come out of a toxic waste dump, ever. But not a kids’ show.
Most of the productions at BAT are not G rated. (Although some are, The Addams Family Musical is a good example.) Why not all G rated?
BAT is auctioning off a fine specimen of Sam Sneke’s art. This drum from the toxic dump in The Toxic Avenger could be yours! It is a clean 35 gallon metal drum, great to hold…
Today is the day BAT has waited for all Summer. Today is the first full day of tech for The Toxic Avenger!!!
So why is today so spacial?
All Summer BAT has been doing things to get Toxie ready for you. From the early meetings with the creative team, to auditions, to searching for that hard to find prop.
BAT, typically, does one musical a year. BAT likes to do it in the Fall because that gives BAT’s creative team more time to work on it.
Today, BAT started at 9 am with dry tech. That is where the director, stage manager, sound and light designers get together over coffee and tea and decided where all of the cues they have been working on for weeks go in the show. (They may also may find a cue that slipped through until this point.) The stage manager writes all of cues in her script, so she can call the show later.
While most of the creative team is at dry tech, the band shows up and sets up on the platform upstage. For Toxie, the band is five pieces. Boy are they tight.
Burien Actors Theatre’s next production, the musical comedy The Toxic Avenger, performs Sept. 30 through Oct. 30. TICKETS HERE.
The BAT production features live musicians, specialty drinks themed to the show and free on-site parking, plus an opening night party.
“THE TOXIC AVENGER”
Winner of Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, The Toxic Avenger is a love story and laugh-out-loud musical that has it all—an unlikely hero, his beautiful girlfriend, a corrupt New Jersey mayor and two actors who play…well, pretty much everyone else…bullies, mobsters, old ladies, and stiletto-wearing backup singers.
Melvin Ferd the Third wants to clean up Tromaville, the most polluted town in New Jersey. When the mayor’s bullies dump Melvin into radioactive toxic waste, he reemerges as The Toxic Avenger, New Jersey’s first superhero. A mutant freak with superhuman strength and a heart as big as Newark, “Toxie” is out to save New Jersey, end global warming, and woo the town’s blind librarian.
The review from the B-Town Blog, HERE.
The review from the Westside Weekly, HERE.
Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. at BAT, 14501 4th Ave. S.W. in Burien.
Ticket prices $20 general admission, $17 senors and active military, and $10 for students. Saturday, October 1 all tickets are half price, and then on Sunday October 2 all tickets are just $7. TICKETS Don’t miss the dinner and show packages at The Mark Restaurant an Bar are $35.
The Toxic Avenger is sponsored by 4Culture and the Mark Restaurant & Bar.
Enjoy fantastical theater, delectable food at Burien Actors Theatre Gala Party Enjoy fabulous food, drink and theatrical performances at Burien Actors Theatre’s Gala Party & Show on Saturday, Sept. 17. From 6 to 9 p.m.,…
The Toxic Avenger a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music and lyrics by David Bryan
Melvin Ferd the Third wants to clean up Tromaville, the most polluted town in New Jersey (just off Exit 13B on the Turnpike). Foiled by the mayor’s bullies, Melvin is dumped into a vat of radioactive toxic waste, only to reemerge as The Toxic Avenger, New Jersey’s first superhero. Affectionately known as Toxie, the new hero is a mutant freak with superhuman strength and a heart as big as Newark. He’s out to save New Jersey, end global warming, and woo the blind librarianin town.
Click HERE to get tickets online!
Or send an email with your request to tickets@burienactorstheatre.org.
Burien Actors Theatre is seeking submissions of new plays by Washington State playwrights for the 2017 Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival.
Both one-act and full-length plays are sought.
Winning scripts will be staged April 14 through May 7, 2017 as part of Burien Actors Theatre’s 2016-17 season. In addition to having their plays produced, winning playwrights will also receive monetary prizes.
The submission deadline for all scripts is Oct. 21, 2016. To qualify for the Festival, all submissions must follow Playwrights Submission Guidelines detailed below.