The Ballad of Junk and Malfunction
Dixon Place Under Construction Series Presents
The Ballad of Junk and Malfunction
Written, composed and performed by
Melaena Cadiz & Joseph Keckler
Directed by Erin Markey
Friday and Saturday, May 5 & 6 at 8:00pm
all other Fridays and Saturdays (May 12-13, 19-20, & 26-27) doors open at 10pm
258 Bowery, 2nd Fl, between Houston & Prince
Tickets $12, $10 students and seniors
Call (212) 219-0736 for reservations and more information
In this absurdist musical odyssey, a pair of New York karaoke chanteurs chase their imagined glory days, trekking across a chaotic future America to carve their "comeback" into the face of American history.
Melaena Cadiz grew up in Kalamazoo, MI, Columbia, MD and Singapore. She studied Theatre and French at the University of Montpellier and Cours Florent in Paris and received her BA from the University of Washington. Since arriving in NYC two years ago, Melaena has appeared in various theatre productions, including the one-woman show, Fluke, written and directed by Perry Souchuk. She has also appeared in numerous independent films, most recently Descent, directed by Talia Lugacy and Salvatore Interlandi’s Charlie.
Joseph Keckler is a writer, performance artist, and singer- the “beautiful androgyne who sings the blues” (The Guardian). Having lived in NYC for a year, Joseph’s work has been produced at HERE, The 11th Annual Performance Studies International Conference at Brown University, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Dixon Place, Galapagos Art Space, and Joe’s Pub. Joseph can be seen in a variety of NYC nightspots and singing principal bass-baritone roles at The Amato Opera Theater.
Erin Markey, a multimedia performance artist uses video, recycled American torch songs, and narratives of her dirty laundry to renegotiate her relationship to the beer n' bratwurst glamour of Midwestern femininity. Markey has been busy touring her latest production, Made of Honor, most recently at Chicago's Single File Solo Performance Festival. She and fellow "man" Jim Leija are currently developing a new show starring themselves, their childhood home video footage and their over-exercised self-interest in front of a live audience.
Dixon Place theatre events are made possible, in part, with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; & generous private funds from Alliance of Resident Theatres/NY's Fund for Small Theatres; Altria, Inc.; Blue Man Group; Edith C. Blum Foundation; Carnegie Corporation; Dramatist Guild Fund; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts; Greenwall Foundation; Jerome Foundation; Jerome Robbins Foundation; Katherine Dalglish Foundation; Low Wood Fund; Lucille Lortel Foundation; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; and Peg Santvoord Foundation.
