TinyRhino is a monthly festival of ten-minute plays/musicals at the Brooklyn Lyceum under the umbrella of UglyRhino. With the festival, authors are given 5 prompts at which the audience is instructed to drink from their beverage of choice. Those prompts are then incorporated into brand-spankin'-new plays and mounted as a theatrical free-for-all evening of drinking and art. For the July edition of the show, the audience had to drink whenever 1) someone analyzed a dream 2) someone had a pratfall 3) someone impersonated a celebrity 4) someone flipped off the audience or 5) someone mentions the temperature of the room. Katie shepherded the blending of these prompts into the total awesomeness that was Pharmaceutical: The Musical.
In the show, I played Mr. Worthington, a suburban drone unhappy with his life. I was being psychoanalyzed by a therapist, but instead of treatment I got a prescription. Returning home, I was confronted by my unhappy housewife and, upon taking my medication, we entered a trippy fantasy finale with a kickline of dancing pills. It was out there. It was fabulous. And it was so much fun being both the lead role actor guy and the dance-making choreographer guy. The show was a hit and a new collaboration was a total success!
