Book, music, and lyrics by Mickey Zetts


Mickey Zetts
Book, music, & lyrics


Mickey Zetts is an award winning songwriter who has been perplexing theatrical audiences since age 14. His first musical play was produced at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and was the highest attended summer event in the University Center’s history. The school completely funded and produced the project without ever realizing that he didn’t actually attend classes.

Mickey Zetts' latest show, INSECURITY! The Recession-Proof Musical, produced in the Midtown International Theatre Festival, won him an MITF award for Best Music and Lyrics.  Other writing projects have included original music and lyrics for the Oberon Theatre Ensemble’s productions of “MacBeth” (2008) and “The Merry Wives Of Windsor” (2007), the latter being Oberon’s most attended production to date. 

Mickey first produced APATHY, The Gen X Musical at the Florida Playwright’s Theatre in Hollywood, Florida in 1995, which
developed a cult following and went on to be the longest running show in that theatre’s history.  It also elicited Jack Zinc, theatre critic for the Miami Herald, to label Mickey as a “harrowing, rabid nihilist!”  Of course, Mickey took that as a compliment.  Best known for it’s minor cult classic hit, the "Modern Irish Drinking Song,"  the show was revived in 2005 at MITF and cited as “Outstanding New Musical-Summer 2005” by Talkin’ Broadway.  A concert version for the 2006 Spotlight On Festival earned Mickey the Spotlight On award for Best Original Song, “Mister Bitter’s Blues."

When not writing for the theatre, Mickey performs with his band the Icky House Club in venues across New York City: www.ickyhouseclub.com.


Current Production - August 2009

Industry Reading - November 8th, 2008

Concert at the Spotlight On Halloween Theatre Festival - October/November 2005

MITF Production - July 2005

Second FL Production - February 1997

Premiere Production - November 1995


The Show Goes On Productions
Emileena Pedigo, Executive Producer

The Show Goes On Productions was started as an ensemble of producers interested in the artistic creation of commercial theatre.  Amidst all the actor-run companies today, it emerges as a company committed to the production side of quality story-telling; dedicated to producing new works that relate to audiences through heart and soul.  Only through passionate and unconventional story telling can we touch a jaded audience that is losing interest in the status quo.  The Show Goes On Productions seeks to reinvigorate commercial theatre by slapping a twist on tradition and exposing matters that are underrepresented today

Emileena is managing
producer of the Midtown International Theatre Festival. There she has worked with John Chatterton for over five years to advance the festival into its 11th season this year. She co-produced Oberon Theatre Ensemble's 9th and 10th seasons on Theatre Row – the company’s most successful seasons to date.  For 6 Figures Theatre Company, Emileena co-produced their 14th and 15th seasons at the West End Theatre.
  She has production stage managed extensively Off-Broadway, opera, national tours, and regionally at length for such companies as TheatreWorks Hartford, The Lamb's Theater, Mirror Rep (NYC); Bailiwick Rep, Shattered Globe (Chicago), TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, CA), and Teatro Vision (San Jose, CA).  She received a B.A. in theatre from Purdue University and completed the Foothill Theatre Conservatory in California, both with honors. 

Jamibeth Margolis
Casting Director

Jamibeth has twelve years of experience as a casting director in NYC. She worked for Johnson-Liff Casting, Margolis-Seay Casting, and is now a freelance casting director with her own office.  Past casting projects include the Broadway and National Touring Companies of such shows as Cats, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera and many others. Jamibeth is also curently the artistic director of musicals at the Midown International Theatre Festival.  As a professional director, Jamibeth is attached to a number of new musicals currently being developed for Broadway including Warsaw and Owl Creek. She has directed readings, showcases and productions of a dozen new musicals in the last three years at prominent New York venues. She also recently served as assistant director to Jerry Zaks on The Caine Mutiny Court Martial on Broadway and A Bad Friend at Lincoln Center Theatre.  Member: Society Of Stage Directors and Choreographers, The Casting Society Of America, and Actors’ Equity Association. 


Amy Klewitz
Choreographer


Angie McCormack
Production Stage Manager

Angie's stage management credits include: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Regional Tour), Ennobling Nonna (New York, Denmark, Rhode Island), Third Child (New York, Italy), Sea Change (New York), You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Florida), Catfish Moon (Florida, North Carolina), The Complete History of America; Abridged, Tom Sawyer, Winnie the Pooh, The Hitchhiker’s Guide (Florida). Assistant Stage Management credits include: Anne of Green Gables (New York), Henry and Mudge (New York), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Big Bang, Forever Plaid (North Carolina), Anything Goes (Florida, North Carolina), Scarlet Pimpernel (Florida). She is currently the Assistant Company Manager for TheatreWorks.


  Industry Reading
 
November 8th, 2008
  The Cell Theatre

 
338 W. 23rd St., New York, NY






Left to right: Fernandez, McDonald, Allen, Galloway, Farr, Rankus

  Trevor Allen
 
Nicodemus






 Emily Paige Ballou
  Stage Directions

Jessica Farr
 Laka





Carlos Rafael Fernandez
 Schleppin' Jones




Julian Fox
Band Director
 
Paula Galloway
 Babbet






 Gregory McDonald
  Filander






  Duncan Pflaster
 
Bill





 Susan Rankus
 Tangerine





Carmela Sinco
Music Director







The Spotlight On Halloween Theatre Festival
Apathy Concert Review
October-November 2005
The Monster Cabaret
80 Grove St., New York, NY


Fiona Choi, Matt Miniea, Ryan G. Metzger, Sami Rudnick



  The Midtown International Theatre     
 
Festival
 
July 2005
   The WorkShop MainStage
   312 W. 36th St., New York, NY


Fiona Choi, Babbet
Ethan Gomez, Nicodemus
Samantha Leigh Josephs, Tangerine
Ryan G. Metzger, Filander
Matt Miniea, Schleppin' Jones
Duncan Pflaster, Bill
Sami Rudnick, Laka
Mickey Zetts, Malphoof                

Left to right, top row: Metzger, Pflaster, Zetts, Josephs.
Second row: Rudnick, Choi.  Bottom row: Miniea, Gomez

Second Hollywood, FL Production
February 1997
Florida Playwright's Theatre
1936 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, FL

  Heather Brooks, Tangerine
 
Paul Casali, Nicodemus
 
Jay Colligan, Alowishus
  Eddie Gresley,
Schleppin'  
                    Jones
(replacement)
  David Hernandez,
Bill
 
Delma Miranda, Babbet
 
Angela Thomas, Laka
 
Sparx T. Urquhart, Filander
  Jason Winfield, Schleppin'
                    Jones

Left to right, Top row: Winfield, Miranda, Colligan. Second
row: Zetts, Urquhart. Bottom row: Casali, Brooks, Thomas



Premiere Production
November 1995
Florida Playwright's Theatre
1936 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, FL

Q. Hahn, Babbet
Suzy Johnson,
Laka

Paul Thomas,
Nicodemus
Sparx T. Urquhart,
Filander
Eddie Gresley, 
Schleppin' Jones
Lissa Grossman,
Tangerine
Mike Allen,
Alowishus
Duncan Pflaster,
Alowishus (replacement)

Vinnie Scotto,
Bill
Eddie Gresley and Mickey Zetts (with guitar)