Floozy: The Musical

Written and Performed by Reza Jacobs & Melissa Major

FLOOZY THE MUSICAL tells the story of Margaret Grimthorpe, born ordinary, is nothing special. Her parents, her clothes, her thoughts, her life nothing special.

Six months into a loving but sexually unsatisfying marriage, her husband dies during his first successful erection. She turns to alcohol, songwriting and sex to quell her pain.

And so begins a comedic sexual odyssey in which the Floozy travels the world, propelled by a hefty sexual appetite and the ability to tap dance from country to country.

During the course of her unruly adventures, she discovers that she is not aging! Has she sexed herself young? It is not until she arrives in Bombay, India, that a tantra guru explains to her the reason for her mysterious agelessness.

Two storytellers Reza Jacobs & Melissa Major sing, dance and argue their way through this epic adventure. They play all the characters, from a misunderstood gay pirate to the dead husband’s singing ghost.

Costumes by Ming Wong, Music played by Jamie Drake and Erik Patterson, Choreography by Emily Andrews, Stage Management by Melissa Joakim.

Playing at the HELEN GARDINER PHELAN PLAYHOUSE, 79A St. George Street (South of Harbord)

DATES & TIMES:
Friday, July 4 at 5:15pm
Saturday, July 5 at 7:30pm
Tuesday, July 8 at 9:00pm
Wednesday, July 9 at 12:00pm
Thursday, July 10 at 11:00pm
Saturday, July 12 at 5:45pm
Sunday, July 13 at 1:45pm

Tickets are $10.00 at the door

Reza Jacobs has an MFA from the NYU / Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Since moving to Toronto a year and a half ago, he’s written songs for youth theatre (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, TYT), arranged Beatles songs (With A Little Help From My Friends, Acting Upstage), and composed original scores (Hamlet, Why Not Theatre & Macbeth, CTP – which was nominated for a Dora!). He’s also worked with Cambodian puppeteers in Phnom Penh and JoAnne Akalaitis at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. His one-armed-man geek-pop extravaganza Plastic! won a Daryl Roth Award and was featured at the NAMT Songwriters Showcase, Bound For Broadway, and the York Theatre in New York. Coming up: Sakuntala (Pleiades Theatre), for which he’s written music.

Melissa Major is a playwright and performer interested mostly in theatrical experimentation. Her plays have been produced in Canada, USA and Hong Kong. Previous credits include: Kicking and Smiling for Squiggfest and Nuit Blanche, Art is a Cupboard at Toronto Fringe and hotINK Festival in New York City, Unicorn Horns at Nuit Blanche, IDEA World Congress of Theatre in Hong Kong and Theatre Passe Muraille. Awards for her work include the York University President's Prize for Playwriting in 2004 (Art is a Cupboard), 2006 (Unicorn Horns) and 2007 (Kicking and Smiling). Art is a Cupboard was also a finalist for the Hidden River Arts Playwriting Award in Bala Cynwyd, PA (USA) and a semi-finalist for Reverie Productions' Next Generation Playwriting Contest in New York, NY (2006). As well it won the hotINK 2007 playwriting competition where it was produced in New York, NY. Her only children's play Wanda T. Grimsby, Detective Extraordinaire won the 2006 Summer Shorts Festival Playwriting Competition, where the play was produced by Youth Education OnStage in Williston, North Dakota. One of her short plays, Delly's Belly was a finalist for the 2006 Emerging Artist Theatre's Fall EATfest award in New York, where it garnered a staged reading.

For more information or to receive a press package please contact:
Lucas Beaver – Producer

floo·zy also floo·zie (flōō'zē) n. pl. floo·zies Slang
A woman regarded as tawdry or sexually promiscuous.
[Origin unknown .]

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