After running for over a year and a half in various venues in NYC, the underground smash-hit Pop Punk High is coming to midtown, as Feinstein’s/54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Pop Punk High: A Pop Punk Musical In Concert in anticipation of Pop Punk High’s five-week run at the Public Hotel in October 2018.
Pop Punk High is an original musical that tells the story of a high school where everyone is pop punk, it’s always 2003, and there’s never been anything cooler than shredding, pizza, and flipping off your lame-ass parents. The irreverent, loud, up-and-coming cast of the Off-Off-Broadway smash hit will present covers of everyone’s favorite pop punk tunes from yesteryear as well as original numbers from Pop Punk High, sung by Melanie Brook (Who Is Melanie Brook, many others at Feinstein’s/54 Below, 50 Shades the Musical Off-Broadway and National Tour), Kelly Krauter (Bitch Carols at Feinstein’s/54 Below), and Ben Lapidus, composer and star of Pop Punk High, as well as many more musical guests!
Come hear the soundtrack the FADER is calling “outrageous,” “amazing,” and “extremely silly and extremely self-aware”, and that Billboard is calling “A bright new frontier revitalizing everything aughts… really, really good.”
Directed by Felicia Lobo (lead singer of punk band QWAM), featuring songs by Ben Lapidus — and produced by Anderson Cook — the author behind underground hits such as The Disembodied Hand That Fisted Everyone to Death: the Musical! and Blatantly Blaine — this night’s music is sure to inspire you to flip off your parents and revel in all the angst of those terrible teenage years.
Pop Punk High is directed by Felicia Lobo, assistant directed by Stephanie Wurster, stage managed by Jaye Hunt, produced by Anderson Cook, and musically directed by Ben Lapidus.
The company also includes Amanda Centeno as Tib, Jacob Grover as Richard, McLean Peterson as Mom, Patrick Sweeney as Skeet, and Mina Walker, Leanne Velednitsky, and Zac Porter as members of the ensemble.
Pop Punk High: A Pop Punk Musical in Concert plays Feinstein’s/54 Below (254 West 54th Street) on Saturday, June 9th at 11:30 PM. There is a $15-$35 cover charge ($5 more if purchased at door) and $20 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.com. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00 are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.