Join the melodious if maladaptive inhabitants of the Super Duper Store, your favorite supermarket, for an adventure involving plague, paranoia, bendy straws, death in the produce section, an evil puppet, and, of course, true love.
Aisle Six is an up-and-coming theatrical production by Nicola McEldowney. The show is a darkly comic musical about a cursed supermarket, which as Nicola observantly notes is exactly ONE more musical about a cursed supermarket than your so-called musical theatre geniuses such as Gilbert and Sullivan ever thought of.
Here I am with the aforementioned evil puppet, who spends the show with my hand in an uncomfortable place. I'm excited to find myself among the show's cast of hopelessly downtrodden, manically optimistic, delightfully malicious, cautiously superheroic, randomly violent, unhealthily lovable, and unabashedly musical characters.
This show has everything a discerning musical theater patron demands nowadays: love stories, hate stories, smug indifference stories, bright humor, catchy tunes, adult situations, naughty language, mystic revelations, random acts of violence, and a whole lot of groceries.
Our most recent public reading of this show happened April 11, 2011 at New York City's distinguished Players Club, and it went wonderfully. Stay tuned for updates on future performances.
For further information on Aisle Six, see the author's Aisle Six page or contact her via Twitter, Blogger, or by emailing thesnarkascending at the usual gmail domain.