Tony Award-Winning Team Joe DiPietro and Bon Jovi’s David Bryan’s
The Toxic Avenger-the Musical
is Triumphant in London Since Premiering at the Southwark Playhouse on April 22nd, 2016
“Talented Cast, an Exhiliarating Score and the Ability to Make you Laugh Until You Ache” –Theatre Weekly
UK Critics laude the Troma inspired musical as reviews pour in since the show premiered at the Southwark Playhouse on April 22nd, 2016!
The Toxic Avenger-the Musical! is sweeping the London theatre scene with high marks from the critics of esteemed British and international publications like The Telegraph, TimeOut London, What’s on Stage, West End Frame and The Stage, among many others, it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman, prexy of Troma Entertainment and creator of The Toxic Avenger.
Mark Anderson has been nominated for an “Offie Award” for his role as “New Jersey’s Only Superhero”, Toxie.
Magnanimous reviews for the British premiere of Joe DiPietro and Bon Jovi’s David Bryan’s
The Toxic Avenger- the Musical!, which made it’s London Premiere on April 22nd, 2016 at
Southwark Playhouse in London, are pouring in! The performance, inspired by Troma Entertainment’s 1984 cult superhero movie,
The Toxic Avenger, is a smash success in the UK, with a celebrated 5 Star honor from London’s
The Telegraph, who describe the production as “slick and witty”.
The Telegraph goes on, “The cast are phenomenal singers, bringing scorching vocal range to Bryan’s earworm tunes, and squeezing every last drop of comedy out of their deliciously juvenile lyrics (‘When your head looks decayed, it’s hard to get laid’).” Reactions from the press make it clear that the Tromatic essence of the musical is brilliantly conveyed, for example
Time Out London , which gave the show 4 Stars, called the
The Toxic Avenger- the Musical! a “deliciously lurid and joyously daft”, themes definitively associated with Troma Entertainment.
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