All manner of moderately-produced single-night performances, including concerts, dance recitals, variety shows, and play collection readings
Blossoms are often large-cast engagements that keep community expansion and accessibility in mind, and many artists from Take Root and Unearth participate in order to practice their skills
These range from parody musicals and folk concerts, to dance recitals and original cabarets, to Pride month extravaganzas and fund-RAGER parties
This fall, we will mount This Wild and Precious Life: A Dance Concert of new work from local choreographers and Cursed Into the Woods: A Fundraiser where audiences “curse” the show.
Close to Home: A Summer Folk Concert
July 21, 2024 | Fort Tryon Park
Set beneath a breath-taking tree in Fort Tryon Park, Forager rearranged highlights from the ethereal otherworldly musical Children of Eden with a folk music lens. Through improvised dance, group song, and personal storytelling, we explored what it means to make your way in this world, break family ties, and write new chapters as the seasons change.
Jenna Todd: The Demon Waitress of Lulu’s
February 15, 2024 | Red Eye NY
Co-Production with The Musical Multiverse.
Jenna, a struggling pie shop owner, accepts the help of a mysterious barber in town, who promises – razor across his heart – that her under-baked business will rise, considering she’s his long-lost daughter! This collaboration with The Musical Multiverse was a rollicking, deadly parody musical of sugar, butter, and sweet, sweet vengeance.
Forager’s Annual Fund-RAGER
February 3, 2024 | Purgatory, BK
Hosted at Purgatory in Brooklyn, we threw a wild celebration of our two-year anniversary. Featuring a concert full of songs, monologues, dances, flash mobs, and speeches from all the productions from our previous years, it was a magical night of community-building, networking, and a look forward at hopes for the years ahead!
The Steven Universe Musical Experience
June 17, 2023 | LIC Culture Lab
Our celebration of Pride month concluded with a cast twenty Foragers recreating the music, characters, and stories of Rebecca Sugar’s Steven Universe TV program. Steven Universe features an array of LGBTQ+ characters and themes, and bringing them together for a beautiful night of song, dance, and crystal gems was a highlight of our summer.
Seuss Side Story & The Last 5 Razzle Dazzles
May 13 & 20, 2023 | The Duplex, NYC
Forager helped launch The Musical Multiverse, a performance series of original parody musicals that mash two existing fan-favorite shows together, with wild new arrangements, crazy combined storylines, and laughs aplenty. With Suess Side Story and The Last Five Razzle Dazzles, we dazzled our sold-out audiences with comedy, heart, and surprise!
“Freaks, Geeks, and Drama Queens”
January 28, 2023 | The Duplex, NYC
Our very first coming-out party for Forager Theatre Company, we put up a cabaret of songs that harkened to our identities as freaks, geeks, and drama queens. Featuring ten fearless performers, we staked our claim of what the company would seek to create space for and why people should keep coming back for more!