{"id":368274,"date":"2026-10-08T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368274\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:16:10","slug":"musical-parody-of-traitors-reality-show-to-play-off-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368274\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Parody of Traitors Reality Show to Play Off-Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traitorz, an unauthorized musical parody of reality TV hit\u00a0The Traitors, has set an Off-Broadway premiere at St. Luke&#8217;s Theatre, with a run to begin November 4 ahead of a November 13 opening night.<\/p>\n<p>The new work comes from book writer and lyricist Tim Murray (Tim Murray is WITCHES!) and composer <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/ben-fankhauser-vault-0000121939\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Fankhauser<\/a> (<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/newsies-nederlander-theatre-vault-0000013858\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newsies<\/a>), and will feature comedian Dylan Adler as show host <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/alan-cumming-vault-0000033089\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Cumming<\/a>, with audience members invited to join onstage to play the game. A cast of impersonators (to be announced)\u00a0will also be on hand to play such celebrity contestants as\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/jennifer-coolidge-vault-0000086852\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Coolidge<\/a>, Britney Spears, Ozzy Osbourne, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/liza-minnelli-vault-0000090656\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liza Minnelli<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/morgan-freeman-vault-0000094433\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Freeman<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/patti-lupone-vault-0000068230\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patti LuPone<\/a>, and Jesus of Nazareth.<\/p>\n<p>The production will feature music directions, arrangements, and orchestrations by Kyle Branzel; choreography by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/alex-hartman-performer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Hartman<\/a>; scenic design by\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/riw-rakkulchon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riw Rakkulchon<\/a>, costume and wig design by Kindall Almond, lighting design by Zack Lobel, and sound design by Germ\u00e1n Mart\u00ednez. Drew Francis and Andrew Wang will serve as production managers, with general management by The GM\u00a0Office and George Youakim and company management by Jacob Ambrosia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/rafaella-rosenberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafaella Rosenberg<\/a> is producing\u00a0in partnership with Ramble, and\u00a0with co-producers <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/sean-nyberg-producer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Nyberg<\/a> &amp; <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/paul-danforth-producer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Danforth<\/a>, Tim Murray, Barbara Straka-Kenning, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/john-murray-vault-0000026301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Murray<\/a>, Tamara J. Murray, Mary McDonald, Julie and Mark Bertch, Alicia and Russ Roshong, John and Maureen Huffman, Richard and Joyce Pohl, and Laurie Korobkin.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traitorzmusical.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TraitorzMusical.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traitorz, an unauthorized musical parody of reality TV hit\u00a0The Traitors, has set an Off-Broadway premiere at St. Luke&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-368274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}