Neil Gaiman ‘s girl-culture classic Coraline, which has already earned legions of obsessed fans, first as a novel, and recently as an awesome 3D animated film, is now fixin’ to make it’s debut as an off-Broadway musical on May 7th in NYC, and we’ve got your discounted tix right here!
Not only did we nab Neil himself talking all about the show for our April/May issue, hitting newsstands soon, but as a friend of BUST, you can be the first on your block to snag tickets (regularly $65) for just $39 when you order them here and use the coupon code BUST. Or, if you’re feeling exceptionally wise, brave, and tricky, you can enter to win some here .
Not already in the cult of Coraline? Here’s the scoop from MCC Theater to get you up to speed:
‘Poor bored Coraline. She’s left to rattle ’round her perpetually distracted, workaholic parents’ house all by her lonesome. But late one night, her dreams of a better reality come true as she opens a big, carved, wooden door at the far end of the drawing room and passes into a perfect replica of her own world. When she’s greeted there by a vastly loving Other Mother and a kindly Other Father, she’s thrilled! But as the rats start to creep from the floorboards, and the way home becomes increasingly unclear, Coraline begins to suspect that, perhaps, all is not as perfect as it seems.
A musical like no other, Coraline sprang from the minds of three of the most wildly popular cult figures of our time. Adapted from the terrifying children’s book by Neil Gaiman (author of the international sensation Sandman), this tale of menace and mayhem is set to music and lyrics by smart-rock iconoclast Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, and boasts a book by celebrated downtown actor/playwright, David Greenspan, who serves double-duty as the villainous Other Mother. Tony nominee Jayne Houdyshell (Well, The Receptionist) stars in the title role, and bringing it all together is acclaimed director Leigh Silverman (Yellowface, From Up Here, Well).’
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