Grow A Show Musical Theatre Workshop: Tales From The Comic Book Crackdown

Grow A Show Musical Theatre Workshop: Tales From The Comic Book Crackdown

Book by Ben Dickow, Words and Music by Ray Hedgpeth 

Directed by Hank Stratton 

Public performance on Monday, September 9 at 7:30 PM on the Lied Mainstage 

“Tales From the Comic Book Crackdown” is centered around the dramatic 1954 Senate hearings on comic books and juvenile delinquency, which were designed to bring down the comic book industry altogether. Bill Gaines, publisher of E.C. Comics, the most successful comic book publisher of that time with titles such as “Tales from the Crypt,” “The Vault of Horror,” and “Weird Science” was the only publisher who agreed to testify on behalf of comics. It nearly spelled the end of him and his company. And yet somehow, Bill managed to pull off the greatest twist ending in the history of comic books. 

Cast:

Ben VandeVere

Lauren Silverman Durban

Max Antoine

Matt Works

Zachary Hartwick

Robbie Exstrom

Jacquelyn vonAschwege

Carson Doss

Marikita Saure

Maddy Stark

Brenden Dodds

Brandon McMiller

Sam Kennedy

Sydney Kwasa

2024-09-09

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