Heralded as "The Ever-Changing New Topical Musical Comedy," NEWSical plucks its material from the wealth of current events (Martha Stewart, Michael Moore, George W.) and constant headliners (Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, and, well, George W.). The evolving work features updated songs and material every week, making the show almost a completely new experience within months, as put by the show "depending on how active our celebrities and politicians have been in making asses of themselves."
About the Show
From a successful run on Broadway at the famed theaters at Studio 54, NEWSical the Musical takes no prisoners as it skewers all the latest news from politics, entertainment and celebrities.

Reviews
NEW YORK TIMES
"fast, funny and irreverent" Read the full review here.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
AP calls NEWSical "The Daily Show Set to Music."

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
"an off-Broadway delight."

BROADWAY WORLD.COM
"Newsical is pretty damn funny!"

VARIETY
"...should keep the cabaret crowd in stitches!"
"Inspired!"
"the ensemble really gets its claws into these cruel and cutting life studies.  The laughs are Priceless!"

THE VILLAGE VOICE/Michael Musto
"A Clever Mixed Bag of Topical Songs!"

Creative Team
RICK CROM, Composer/Lyricist
Rick Crom has been part of the New York entertainment community for over 20 years as a songwriter and a performer. He is the composer/ lyricist for several off-Broadway and cabaret revues: Oh Fine RSVP, The Subject Was Neurosis, Absolutely Rude, Our Life and Times (1999 MAC & Bistro Awards for Outstanding Musical Revue) and now NEWSical the Musical (What in the World (2003 Nightlife Award)).  His topical  material is featured at the Crystal Palace Theatre in Aspen, Colorado. Recently the Crystal Palace honored him by releasing a recording of his material, Who Writes This Stuff? The songs of Rick Crom. He has written the scores to several shows and is currently working on a musical with Hunter Foster entitled, Bonnie and Clyde: a Folktale.  He came to New York in 1979 as part of the Chicago City Limits Improv Company and began working as a comedian nationwide. As a stand up comic he’s appeared on Caroline’s Comedy Hour, MTV Comedy Half-hour, ShowTime and Comedy Central. He performs regularly at the Comedy Cellar in Manhattan and nightclubs nationwide.  As an actor he’s appeared on Broadway in the musicals Urinetown, The Goodbye Girl and Footloose. Off-Broadway in Merrily We Roll Along, Das Barbecue, Encore’s Fiorello, Lil' Abner, and Carnegie Hall’s Louisiana Purchase.

DONNA DRAKE, Director
On Broadway, Donna Drake has directed Nothing Like a Dame 2004 and the Romance in the Dark concert starring Jennifer Holiday.  Off-Broadway her work includes Boobs - the Musical, Splendora, Christmas with the Crawfords, Judy Garland and Uninvited Company currently running at Helen's Cabaret, Are you there God, It’s Me, Ann-Margret, Downhearted Blues, Strictly Personal and Africa Plumbridge.  She is currently working on a new play with Edward Swift for the 2004-2005 season called Are You Wearing Your Hat.  National Company work includes The Who’s Tommy, Smokey Joes Caf�, Annie, Beauty and the Beast, Children of Eden, Sweet Charity, Damn Yankees, Chess, Company, Lucky Guy and Honk!  She served as Artistic Director for the Illyria Theatre Company in New York City for several years.  Her work has earned an Emmy Nomination, a Drama Desk Nomination, a 2003 MAC & Bistro Awards nomination, and a Theatre World Award.  Her Broadway credits as a performer include A Chorus Line (Original Production), Sophisticated Ladies, Woman of the Year, The Wind in the Willows, 5,6,7,8…. Dance, and the original production of 1940’s Radio Hour.  "With loving gratitude to her family."

DAVID KALEY, Costume Designer
David Kaley is the Assistant Costume Shop Supervisor for TheatreworksUSA.  He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Recent projects include Landscape of the Body (Terry Schreiber Studio), Henry V (Fifth Street Theatre), An Ideal Husband (NYU), and The Elan Awards.

FRED M. CARUSO, Producer/General Manager
Fred Caruso has been working professionally in the theatre for twenty-four years and remarkably he’s still only twenty-two years old. As an actor, he’s worked all over the country in Big River, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Oliver, Shenandoah, Childs Play, Dark at the Top of the Stairs among others. He has also been in numerous commercials, voice overs and industrials. He recently produced Rick Crom’s revue What in the World, at the John Houseman Studio Theatre. He began producing when he was fourteen, and at sixteen he opened an Equity Theatre in Hollywood, Florida. Some of the shows he has produced are Broadway Babies, Cole!, The Belle of Amherst, and All Aboard For Broadway. He has written the book, lyrics and score for a show he produced and starred in Off-Broadway, Bitter and Jaded at 25. In his spare time, he is writing other musicals as well. He is a graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute.