ABOUT
Show Description
What do gulags, jazz clubs, soap carving, and awkward first dates have in common? Just one thing: Joseph Stalin. In this bombastic, historically-questionable, and unapologetically camp musical, history gets hijacked by glitter, groove, and revolution. From boyhood dreams in a Georgian village to a trip to the casino in the shadow of state terror, the show slaps Marxism in a sequined leotard and sends it pirouetting through history.
Anchored by a beleaguered historian desperately trying to keep the facts straight, the musical gleefully skewers authoritarianism, toxic masculinity, and Broadway tropes alike. With failed love interests, a religous uprising, rap battles with Lenin, tender soap-carving laments, and a lot of dancing, this might be the most historically inaccurate musical you’ll ever love.
Should this be a musical? (No.)
Is it one anyway? (Absolutely.)
Production History
This show started out as a sketch performed by the sketch comedy group Oops, My Bad. It included a medley of 5 songs, most of which ended up in this final version of the show. People who saw the sketch show demanded it be written into a full musical, so here we are.
A few months later STALIN: The Musical received its world premier at the People's Improv Theater. A run that sold out a month in advance.
The show then took two month break where it received rewrites and a few more rehearsals and then returned for another sold out run at the People's Improv Theater.
The show then was featured at the Chain Theater's Winter One Act Festival, to which it once again played to sold out houses on the mainstage theater.
The show is now being developed as a two act musical for it's Off-Broadway premiere.