RING CYCLE! The Musical by Jeff Goode & Larrance Fingerhut copyright © 1994

"It should be produced in Bayreuth every year as an aperitif" ---Eva Wagner-Pasquier

Four actors & a feisty sock puppet attempt to perform Wagner's entire 15 hour opus in 90 minutes. But can this quarrelsome quartet destroy the universe before they destroy each other?

• The Unusual Cabaret - Bar Harbor, Maine - September-October 1994
  
• Famous Door Theatre / Room 41 - Chicago, Illinois - March 1996
  
• Improv Olympic - Chicago, Illinois - October/November 1998
  
• Washington Shakespeare Company - Arlington, Virginia - April 2003
• Landless Theatre Company - Washington, DC - March/April 2005
• The Profession - Washington, D.C. - May 2004
  

Bar Harbor Times, September 15, 1994
Curtain Up DC, April 5, 2005

Dramaturgy

• Wagner music is death knell for zoo animal
  

Selections from the 1994 original cast recording can be found in the Music Library

For 12 years - from March 1996 to December 2008 - Ring Cycle was one of the Top 10 most produced plays on the JeffNet!