Polyphone
A Festival of New and Emerging Musicals
Presented by the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at University of the Arts
Kerry Walk, President, University of the Arts
Kikau Alvaro, Interim Dean, Ira Brind School of Theater Arts
Maggie-Kate Coleman, Artistic Director Polyphone Festival
April 18–21, 2024
The Doctor is Dead
Book, Music, & Lyrics by é boylan
Co-directed by é boylan and Rose Freeman
Music Direction by Luke McGinnis
Vocal Direction by Maya Kociba
Where:
Arts Bank Theater
601 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Dates and Times:
Thursday, April 18 at 8 PM
Saturday, April 20 at 5 PM
Sunday, April 21 at 5 PM
*Note: Ticket reservations will be held until curtain. All unclaimed tickets will be released to the waitlist at 5 PM and 8 PM accordingly. Dates and times are subject to change.
About: A contemporary fantasy for queer imaginations, "The Doctor is Dead" follows a secret society of trans and neurodivergent outcasts living underground. Using their unique abilities to investigate a mysterious empty coffin, our outcasts sing a song of leaving, of grief that becomes giving, of what begins in the end.
Content disclosures:
Themes of: Grief, Loss of home, and Organized religion.
Presence of a coffin onstage.
For photosensitive audience members, there will be sequences of moving lights, flashlights turning on and off, and scenes both in dim as well as very bright lighting.
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Please Note: UArts students, faculty, and staff will be required to present an up to date UArts ID.
*The Doctor is Dead was originally produced as an audio drama by Musical Theatre Factory and made possible, in part, by generous support from The National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, and Musical Theatre International.