Cindy of Arc, a weekend of performances on Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17 at Bridge Street Theatre, 44 West Bridge Street. Catskill, NY.
Cynthia Kaplan and her band bring us an original, rock-band-sing-along-cum-musical you didn’t know you needed. (Okay, you knew.) This resistance rock comedy takes on lying, power, and how that’s worked out for the rest of us—particularly women. Think American Utopia with expletives, politics, religion, dogs, Nazis, cannibals, no David Byrne, no money, no choreographer, and everyone wearing their own shoes.
Cindy of Arc was a finalist for the 2023 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater and has raised more than $11,000 for women’s reproductive rights. We’re beyond excited to share it with you.
Cindy of Arc
Written and Performed by Cynthia Kaplan
With Dan Barman and Zachary Larson
Directed by Dani Davis
A hilarious journey with rockin’ songs. -Nancy Giles, CBS News Sunday Morning
Hilarious…The show gave me early 90’s riot grrl political anarcho-punk folk meets Violent Femmes-style pop-rock. -Baltimore Fishbowl
CYNTHIA KAPLAN (Writer/Composer/Cindy) has been performing regularly in comedy and music in clubs and theaters in NY and beyond for three decades. Her play, Cindy of Arc, was a 2023 Finalist for the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater and has been seen at Seattle’s Tony winning Intiman Theatre, Baltimore Theatre Project, the Philly Fringe, and NY’s Dixon Place and Laurie Beechman Theatres. Kaplan has recorded two records with her award-winning band, The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal, and she is the author of two acclaimed collections of comic essays, Why I’m Like This: True Stories (a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and a Booksense bestseller) and Leave the Building Quickly. Her work has appeared in many publications including the New York Times and New York Magazine. Kaplan also writes for film, TV, and for the 52nd Street Project, and is co-host of the long-running Ruthless Comedy Hour at New York Comedy Club. An alumna of Circle in the Square Theater School, she has appeared in many plays and nine films. She has never appeared on Law & Order. www.cynthiakaplan.com
Dani Davis is an Emmy award-winning writer, a Tony-nominated Broadway producer, a Helen Hayes Award recipient for producing, a critically acclaimed theater director and choreographer, a television producer, and an entertainment entrepreneur. www.thedanidavis.com