Toxic Avenger Celebrates 100 Performances

The Toxic Avenger, the winner of the 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Off-Broadway Musical, hit a monumental landmark on Friday, July 3, performing its 100th show the night before Independence Day. Surpassing the 100 milestone, the cast of The Toxic Avenger celebrated the significant feat with an Independence Day party, passing around green-colored “toxic” cookies at New World Stages to commemorate the show’s 100th performance at the New York City venue.

A hilarious and nontraditional love story, The Toxic Avenger is based off the 1985 film of the same name and features music and lyrics by David Bryan (Bon Jovi) and book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change). Direction for the off-Broadway production is done by John Rando, and the colorful cast includes Celina Carvajal, Nick Cordero, Demond Green, Matthew Saldivar and Nancy Opel. The storyline of the witty The Toxic Avenger follows the main character (and superhero freak of nature) Melvin Ferd (aka Toxie) and his quest to turn around Tromaville, a polluted New Jersey town, while also attempting to win the girl - the beautiful and blind librarian Sarah.

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