![]() There’s some filth you can’t fight with lysol and bactine” well, I’m sure you get the picture. It’s the mark of Alice’s talent that every major foible and prejudice can be heard on a cast recording such as this and with lines like “ This world is a cesspool, unwashed and unclean. Whether its conjoined twins, mental illness or pure Palmdale nutjob you can rely on the brilliant Alice Ripley to deliver a delectably delicious character. So add in the Bright and Shiny Cult, Indian ice cream man Pushpahp and Jimmy’s parents, particularly Mrs Livingston, a musical theatre mother who could teach Mamma Rose a thing or two.Īlice Ripley plays the aforementioned mater-monster Mrs Livingstone. It’s a basic boy meets girl pretext but it’s the people in Jimmy’s orbit that make this show work. Determined to stop the wedding Jimmy makes a homemade bubble suit and heads out into the world to stop the wedding. When Chloe moves in next door, Jimmy is infatuated but as with all romantic comedies she decides to marry wannabe rocker Mark. So in a nutshell, Jimmy Livingstone the Bubble Boy is born in Palmdale California without immunities and is confined to a plastic bubble. In writing this musical Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio have adapted their own screenplay and proved themselves natural musical theatre writers in the process. Recorded after a concert of the show was held at 54 Below in New York, what has been released is one of the most delightful, twisted, and utterly fabulous musical comedies I’ve heard in ages.īubble Boy is based on the 2001 movie of the same name with Jake Gyllenhaal. ![]() The cast of Bubble Boy is made up of actors who have appeared in development readings and a few smaller productions from the past (A J Holmes, Kirsten Scott, Nehal Joshi, Anita Welch and Alex Chester) and actors that Cinco called “new talent that we knew could kill it” (Alice Ripley, Richard Kind, Caroline Bowman, Matt Doyle, Martin Sola and Gerard Canonico). ![]() The result is this wonderful cd of Cinco’s show performed by a dream cast. The answer came from Kurt Deutsch from Ghostlight Records. So how do you make an Original Cast Recording without having actually had a full scale production? It’s a question that recently faced Bubble Boy writer Cinco Paul. ![]()
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