Sorry all, I attempted to send my post last night, but it wouldn’t go through, so I’m posting it now.

Being that basketball is my favorite sport, I was intrigued by the article “How Do you Get To Broadway? Go to a Basketball Camp.”  Upon reading I found out there is a    Broadway musical “Lysistrata Jones,” which focuses on a college basketball team on a losing streak.  However, none of the actors are very knowledgeable in the game of basketball.  Due to their inabilities to play the game, actors will be attending a “five-day basketball camp organized by Chris Mullens.”  Chris Mullens was recently inducted to the basketball hall of fame, which is quite a feat.

Also interesting to note, “Lysistrata Jones” is performed on a basketball court.  However, being on a basketball court doesnt make this musical all fun and games, there is a bit of historical context involved as well.  The play is based on a 411 B.C. play known as “Lysistrata.”  In “Lysistrata,” the heroine tells the wives of soldiers to withhold sex form them until the end of the Peloponnesian War, and the same idea is brought up in the new modern “Lysistrata Jones.”  The heroine  Lyssie Jones transfers to Athens College, where ‘expectations are so low that the basketball team expects to lose every game.”  One of her methods is the use of sex to motivate the team players to attempt to win games.

Ben Brantley gives this musical a very good review.  He describes the ideas of energy and high octane that this play encompasses that makes this play enticing.  However, he opens with terms concerning eating and metabolism, which I didn’t fully understand being that this was a musical about basketball and gaining calories isn’t an issue when it comes to playing sports.

The play was previously shown on the Judson Memorial Church Gymnasium on Washington Square, but will have  “previews at the Walter Kerr Theater on November 12th and open on December 14th.”