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A variety show featuring acts & arias from some of Philly’s stupidest & silliest!
These wack-tastic songs, skits and socially-unacceptable sock puppets pair nicely with a drink in the hand and a laugh in the heart. Enjoy a libation with a “scientist” with nothing to prove, get serenaded by a washed-out actress from Hollywood’s Golden Age, behold a charismatic UHaul box’s search for familial connection - all these encounters and more await at Pig Iron Studios this Fall. Just a jolly jaunt from festival hubs Maas and Icebox Project Space, MADCAP & BUSTY is the nightcap clown cabaret that Fringe-goers deserve.
Each performance will feature a local guest artist!
21+ only.
THE REVIEWS ARE IN!
“Hahahaha!” - Most future patrons
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“Wait, this isn’t Hadestown... you lied to me.” - Patron’s date
1417 N 2nd St
Studio B
PWYC Options
1417 N 2nd St
Studio B
PWYC Options
1417 N 2nd St
Studio B
PWYC Options
The MADCAP & BUSTY troupe met in Philly in 2022, leaving their homes in New Orleans, NYC, Austin, Boston, Columbus & Lima, Peru to study ensemble-devising at the internationally-renowned Pig Iron School. Following the abrupt closure of the University of the Arts in 2024 - they had an urgent need to EXPLODE with panache absurdity - thus came the afterbirth, MADCAP & BUSTY. Members have performed in long-running acclaimed Off-Broadway shows, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ARS NOVA, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and on national tours; are published playwrights, talented musicians, gifted acrobats and community-organizers, advocates and activists ; have won awards from SXSW, Austin Critics' Table, Cincinnati Fringe, and the Dramatists Guild; served as faculty for renowned theatre schools and as Artistic Directors and producers ... but foremost, they are some *#%!$*?’n juicy-hearted playful idiots.
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Adult Language
Audience Interaction
This event does not require proof of vaccination to attend or masks to be worn