[Preview] SMALL BALL - new musical produced by Daryl Morey opens April 6!

Awesome! So glad you were able to make it. Only sorry I wasn't there today to meet you IRL. Thrilled that you liked it enough to come back a second time. Anyone that does that will get more out of it on a second viewing because it's so full. And nobody will get all the references. That's the fun in them to me; there's something for everyone. Thanks again, brother!

 

Thanks, pal! So glad you dug it!

 

Thanks, old friend. Wish you were in Houston so you could see it!

 

Ha! None anymore but the ones we did in the long ago left their mark. Two things you can count on from every Catastrophic play: it will be funny and it will be weird. I think Small Ball is in the 'wonderfully weird' category as demonstrated by these various reviews.... Bolding part of the final one in this list as it pertains to your funny question...

Houston Press
"It’s one of the most exciting, original, funny, smart, deliciously intellectual, decidedly weird, gorgeously scored, expertly directed, superbly performed shows we could hope for." http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/small-ball-at-catastrophic-theatre-10368445

Houston Broadway World
"SMALL BALL is a musical masterpiece... This show is exactly why the Catastrophic Theatre is so important to Houston's artistic landscape. It's enthralling, inventive and utterly charming productions always contain a greater truth. I didn't know how much I needed a basketball musical until I saw SMALL BALL. And from one human to another, you need it, too." https://www.broadwayworld.com/houst...rophic-Theatres-SMALL-BALL-Is-Clutch-20180409

Houston CultureMap
"Strange, wondrous, and very funny... Small Ball goes beyond comedy and basketball to present a melodic questioning of the nature of reality, storytelling and the meaning of our bizarre existence, no matter what our size." http://houston.culturemap.com/news/...l-morey-houston-rockets-stage-review/#slide=0

And a couple cool audience ones too...

"On a scale of 0 to 10, I give the play, the cast, the crew, and the orchestra 600 poisoned arrows in Michael Jordan's face. (You'll have to see the show to learn what that means.)" http://www.dbcgreentx.net/blog/a-furve-star-rating-for-catastrophics-small-ball

One from reddit: "If you are a basketball and musical geek, go see it. This musical was made just for you. If you are a theatre geek, go see it. This musical is definitely quality off-broadway. Plus, it’ll show you a different way to make a musical. If you are high, go see it. Dude, there are so many crazy ideas. Your mind is gonna implode."

 

Thanks for sharing. So many great reviews but this is Shea Serrano/The Ringer and is maybe my favorite one yet.

 

If you're still in Houston would love for you to see this one. I think it might be right up your alley.

 

First act is 1:15. Then 15 minute intermission. Second act is about 52 minutes. So if you include intermission the full run-time is just under 2:30. The play itself is just over 2 hours.

Also, if interested, tune into the season finale of "Beyond the Paint" on NBA-TV at 9:30 tonight. They're running a feature on the play tonight. They came down in our final week of rehearsals and shot for two days with us. Here's a preview:

http://www.nba.com/video/2018/04/12/20180412-btp-small-ball?collection=video/beyond-the-paint

Tickets are going fast and we've sold out tonight and tomorrow but have a few for this Sunday's matinee. Next week we're close to selling out Thursday and Friday.

If you want to see this one, I highly encourage you to reserve in advance. It won't be long before we sell out the rest of the run and I'd hate for any of you that want to catch it to be locked out because we've sold out in advance. Act now if you can.

smallballmusical.com for Pay-What-You-Can tickets.

catastrophictheatre.com for more info.

 

As Daryl Morey tweeted today, "You can't have a better endorsement than one from @00rocketgirl" who tweeted the following today...

Rocketgirl‏ @00rocketgirl
"Saw Small Ball last night! So so good!!! GO SEE IT. I might even go again! By chance the day we picked out was one where @dmorey & the cast did a Q&A after!"

Hope you can all make it out to see it. After this Sunday's show we'll only have two weeks left! Every show's sold out so far and we expect the remaining performances to fill up quickly. As always at The Catastrophic Theatre, all tickets are Pay-What-You-Can.

http://smallballmusical.com

 

Also we recently added a Monday show for this coming Monday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. In case Mondays are better for anyone than Thurs-Sun.

 

I didn't write it so no, the role of Pippin was not inspired by you, Fatty. Thanks for coming to the show!