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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 barista 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.
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Should this be a musical? (No.)
Is it one anyway? (Absolutely.)
History of Productions
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.
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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.
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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.
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The show is now being developed for it's Off-Broadway premiere.
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