Brooklyn OMNIBUS starts mid-week this week at BAM (as part of the Next Wave fesival) and runs through the weekend. I got a postcard about it last week and was, like, hmmmm, what’s this all about?

Well, Stew, the composer who wrote the Tony award winning Passing Strange has been setting his sights on Brooklyn. With Heidi Rodewald he’s written a song cycle about this multi-faceted borough. But it’s not really about Brooklyn if we’re to believe what he told the Wall Street Journal:

“The show isn’t really about Brooklyn…”It’s about two people from L.A. trying to write about Brooklyn. We’re like these observers from Planet California.”

Rodewald lives in Park Slope and Stew lived in Prospect Heights during the Broadway run of Passing Strange.

According to the BAM Blurbage: “Brooklyn OMNIBUS refracts the Kings County experience through a surreal prism of disparate characters, all living in a nomadic place where the neighborhood is a tribe, the self is an ever-changing storefront, and home is an elusive refuge resting somewhere between.”

Count me in.

BAM Harvey Theater
75min, no intermission
Tickets: $25, 45, 65