Chas LiBretto
 
 
 
 
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UPCOMING SHOWS

 

THE ROYAL PYRATE

The Royal Pyrate is a new musical that reimagines the 300 year old love story of the pirate Black Sam Bellamy and Mary Hallet, a woman so ahead of her time she is accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. Based on the real history of the Golden Age of Piracy

Starring Maggie Lickani (Sunset Boulevard), Danny Hayward (Forbidden Broadway), Korie Lee Blossey (Aladdin, Cyclops: A Rock Opera) and Lauren Molina (Sweeney Todd, Rock of Ages, The Skivvies) this 100-minute musical features an original score and lyrics by Jason Landon Marcus and a book by Chas LiBretto (Pulitzer Prize nominees for Cyclops: A Rock Opera). Directed by Emily Abrams (Mindplay, NYTW 2050 Fellow, Ars Nova’s Emerging Leadership Fellow) the show blends sea shanty, roots rock, and pirate music for a score that will be performed by Jim Bertini, Charley Layton, Jason Landon Marcus, and Charlie Bennet.

Original score and lyrics by Jason Landon Marcus and a book by Chas LiBretto.

SEE THE SHOW

 

August 16 2025, 7:00 pm
August 17 @ 7:00 pm
August 23 @ 7:00 pm
August 24 @ 7:00 pm
August 30 @ 7:00 pm
August 31 @ 7:00 pm

Waterfront Museum, 290 Conover St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, USA


 

MOST RECENT WORK

melville on the shore

June 17, 2024 • PETE’S CANDY STORE

A Play by Chas Libretto

Song of Rage: The ballad of Joe hill

May 15, 2023 • PETE’S CANDY STORE

A reading of Song of Rage: The Ballad of Joe Hill. A New Play Directed by Hunter Bird

Salt Lake City, 1914. Detective Carl Carlson investigates the violent murder of a grocer and his son, a case the state of Utah seems to want to close quicker than usual. When labor leader, songwriter, and Swedish Immigrant Joe Hill is arrested, Carl must decide if this is really just a case about the murder of a grocer...or if it's a conspiracy to strangle organized labor in the west for good.

A Play with Music.

Poisonville

Sept 19, 2022 • PETE’S CANDY STORE

A reading of Poisonville. A New Play Directed by Jake Beckhard

Butte, 1917: The worst mining disaster in American history sparks a massive strike on the nation's biggest copper mines, months after it has entered the First World War. Frank Little, an organizer for the radical Industrial Workers of the World, comes to town to help the strikers. But Butte's a place where everyone's got a motive. And not everyone's who they seem...

 

The Laodamiad

When the Trojan War breaks out on Laodamia’s wedding day, she desperately tries to keep her new husband Iolaus safe with her, but inadvertently exposes him to a wider world of politics and power. A nightmarish prophecy ensures that the charismatic General Odysseus has him put at the front of the lines and when Iolaus is killed in combat, Laodamia becomes the war's first widow. How she bears with grief will echo through history and myth for millennia. Inspired by the handful of surviving lines from Euripides’ lost play "Protesilaos," "The Laodamiad" explores love, war, and loss.

TO VIEW CHAS’ FULL COLLECTION OF WORK:


 
 
...A thrilling freak show...The band, pumping out delectably unique jams while Maenads cavort like flirtatious moths, communicates directly with our irrational side. This is a musical for people who are too cool for musicals yet still yearn for the old Dionysian revelry.
— Charles McNulty, LA Times (review, cyclops)