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Musical fans will find a lot to crow about in Joe Patrick Ward's The Grave White Way.  A complete spoof of the musical genre from its inception to the present, The Grave White Way takes the audience where few, very few, have ever gone before... the other side of Broadway.  This is not a show about the super-spectacle shows whose names have appeared in bright lights along some of New York's famed boulevards.  This is a show about a series of fictional musicals like Lady Hiroshima, Jurassirrific!, Nazareth High and Look Before You Leper that never made it to the Great White Way.  If you love musicals, you'll love how The Grave White Way tears them apart.

Musicals are as much a part of American culture as baseball or apple pie, but just like every little leaguer doesn't grow up to play in the major leagues and every one's mother is not equipped with the culinary skill to bake an edible apple pastry, every musical doesn't end up on The Great White Way, better known as Broadway.  Such is the premise of the rip-roaringly funny new musical The Grave White Way.

A deftly directed comic satire about five dead Broadway actors vying for their places in Musical Theatre Heaven, The Grave White Way spoofs the musical genre as it has never been spoofed before.  You don't have to be a fan of musicals to appreciate this show, in fact it would probably be more fun if you weren't.  Filled to the brim with musical "gems" and generously peppered with witty barbs, The Grave White Way may very well make an appearance on the very boulevard it pokes fun at.