Apocalypse The Musical

Heather Newton and Ernest Merry’s critically acclaimed 2005 Fringe hit returns to bring you more holy milk, Hellish whores and stitch-inducing laughs.

God and Satan are reminiscing about the fun they used to have back when people still revered them and, looking to shake things up a bit, they “decide to host a little bit of an apocalypse.” Tomorrow good and evil will fight to the death, but first each must recruit a person from Oakville, Tennessee to lead their army. God picks Charlie, a simple dairy farmer who thinks there’s nothing more to life than milk. The devil gets Wendy, a job-loving whore who doesn’t give a damn what others think of her. Thus, the stage is set for a whole new age. But what will happen when a troupe of misguided nuns and a herd of heroic cows get involved? And how will the holy powers react when Charlie and Wendy fall madly in love?

With a talented twelve-person cast and a simple but adorable small-town set, cosmic chaos has never looked or sounded so good. Fongphu Tran’s boyish Lucifer is the highlight of the show; he not only has the best lines and delivers them with exquisite comic timing, but his voice is (rather blasphemously) divine. Other gems can be found all over Newton’s pun-packed book, including the hilarious “nuns with a plan” and Richard de Winter and Stuart Saint’s earnest duet “She’s A Whore.” As a whole, this sacrilegious side-splitter of a show doesn’t miss a beat.