Austin's Award-Winning Musical Comedy Parody Troupe


  
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An Evening Without Joe York
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Director - Blake Yelavich
Musical Director - Neal Gibson
Choreography - Cathie Sheridan
Costumes - Mattie Kelbaugh and Buffy Manners
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Naughty Austin's first show - "An Evening Without Joe York"  -
was an undoubtedly daring event.
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Held at a small cabaret space called "Later @ Live Oak," 
the show threatened to bring "Forbidden Broadway" to the 
pristine Austin Theater scene, and trample 50 theater artists, 
50 songs, and more than two dozen shows.
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As the postcard dared to state - this show would be done
with "No Joe York," the current Austin star 
who seemed to be cast in everything, at every theater, everytime.
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Blake Yelavich penned the lyrics, 
Neal Gibson served as Musical Director,
Cathie Sheridan was the Choreographer,
and Jim Fritzler played the piano.
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The cast - Blake, Neal, Cathie 
as well as Dan Sullivan, Lauren Adrian, and Laura Walberg - 
were undoubtedly nervous of staging such a review.
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Unlike "Forbidden Broadway" in NYC, 
where the big "untouchable" stars are the ones who are slammed, 
this cast would be making fun and impersonating
people they would actually have to SEE and work with again.
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The show was a critical and box-office success
and began the reign of campy theater terror 
which has been enjoyed in Austin since 1997.
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READ THE REVIEW FROM THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE!
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