Got this in my inbox today. Remember Paul Leschen, OTBKB’s restuarant critic (Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn Restuarants)? He’s a very talented guy and a great food critic. He’s also a musician and composer. He wrote the songs for this new musical adaptation of Oliver Twist. Cool. Way to go, Paul.

Twist is a new rock musical by Gila Sand, with music by
the Scissor Sisters’ songwriter Paul Leschen. It casts a spell of
luscious drag, scintillating S & M, twisted humor, delicious candy
and other addictive treats. In this fantasy of Victorian England,
Dickens’ orphan has grown into an attractive young man with a taste for
trouble, caned at the Workhouse, strait jacketed at the Undertakers,
and picked up on the street by a wolfish Artful Dodger, portrayed by
Brian Charles Rooney (‘Lucy Brown’ in the 2006 Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera), who brings Twist  home to a decidedly different Fagin than ever seen before.

The score of 14 new songs is performed by Paul Leschen & band, live at the Kraine Theater at the following dates and times:

Dec 13 & 14            10:30 pm
Dec 20 & 21            10:30 pm
Dec 27 & 28            10:30 pm
Dec 29 & 30             8 pm

No show first week of January

Jan 8, 9, 10              8 pm
Jan 11                     10:30 pm
Jan 15, 16, 17           8 pm pm
Jan 18                     10:30 pm