A Check-Room Romance

If you are able to, I highly recommend that you go to this show tonight in New York. It's free and I've seen it. It's great!

A Check-Room Romance
Music: Mark Mulcahy
Words and Drawings: Ben Katchor
Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:30 PM
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Target Free Thursdays

In this new musical tragicomedy, one man's casual obsession with the architecture and culture of coat checkrooms ensnares him in a desperate struggle between employment agents, maitre 'd’s, lovesick podiatrists, low-budget contractors, and paraphilic playboys. A Check-Room Romance is the third theater collaboration between cartoonist Ben Katchor (Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, and The Jew of New York) and composer Mark Mulcahy (Miracle Legion), following The Rosenbach Company, and The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, and features musicians and singers surrounded by Katchor's projected drawings and animations.

Musicians and Singers:
Mark Mulcahy
Dave Trenholm
Ken Maiuri
Flora Reed
Sound design: Dan Richardson

A Check-Room Romance was commissioned by The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers