THE BADASS RECORD COLLECTION

It’s cabaret on steroids. It’s Greatest Hits albums done live. It’s The Badass Record Collection, an open-ended series of musical extravaganzas, featuring tributes to great composers, performers, and genres of 20th and 21st Century pop music. Each night's themes will be selected by DMTheatrics founder and acclaimed director Frank Cwiklik from his collection of nearly 10,000 records, CDs, and even 78s of pop, rock, jazz, and esoterica. Not just cabarets, these are full performances, loud, high-energy blowout, big enough to entertain and maintain DMT's tradition of larger-than-life pop theater, sure to be the party shows of the century! The first installment in this series, TAKING LIBERTIES: AN EVENING OF ELVIS COSTELLO, opens July 9 and is just the first in an ongoing series of musical treasures. Featuring the musical talents of both indie theater legends and up-and-coming musical theater performers, it’s a collection of the greatest pop music of the past hundred years – it’s the Badass Record Collection, and it’s yours to explore!

Volume 1
Taking Liberties:
An evening of Elvis Costello

Devised, Produced, and Directed by Frank Cwiklik
Musical Director, Adam Swiderski
Choreography By Becky Byers
Co-Producer, Michele Schlossberg

The agonies and ecstasies of love, lust, and life, the ups and downs of friendships, relationships, and marriage, and the exquisite pains of heartbreak, all are beautifully portrayed in this selection of great compositions by music legend Elvis Costello. This show has been carefully curated by DMTheatrics’ director and founder Frank Cwiklik, OOBR-award winning creator of Sugarbaby, the Vegas-themed Antony and Cleopatra, and the infamous Bitch Macbeth.

For more info, visit DMTheatrics.

Performances:
Thu, July 9th at 10:30pm
Fri, July 10th at 11pm
Sat, July 11th at 11pm
Thu, July 16th at 10:30pm
Fri, July 17th at 11pm
Sat, July 18th at 11pm
$15

Only at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
one block from the Lorimer stop of the L train / Metropolitan stop of the G train

Tickets available soon at Theatermania (212-352-3101)