The show, by the authors of ATF’s international hit Murder for Two, will premiere in Glens Falls June 27 – July 3.

Photos courtesy of Adirondack Theatre Festival.

GLENS FALLS — Adirondack Theatre Festival (ATF) announced today that the world premiere production of Todd vs the Titanic, which will open ATF’s 30th Anniversary season, will transfer to the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca following the run in Glens Falls. 

ATF Producing Artistic Director Miriam Weisfeld said, “The world takes notice of the brave new work nurtured here at the Adirondack Theatre Festival. In the last six months alone, Pump Up the Volume received a Broadway industry presentation, Mystic Pizza launched a West Coast tour, Murder for Two traveled to Shanghai, The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers bowed off-Broadway, and Ithaca’s Hangar Theater announced that it will present ATF’s Todd vs the Titanic following its run in Glens Falls. ATF is punching above our weight like never before, thanks to the tenacious support of our community.”

Murder for Two originated at ATF in 2010. Since then, it has enjoyed an Off-Broadway run, multiple national tours, and hundreds of licensed productions around the globe. Composer Joe Kinosian and lyricist Kellen Blair, along with book writer Scott Rothman, will return to ATF with Todd vs the Titanic, running June 27 – July 3 at the Charles R. Wood Theater. ATF’s production will then be presented at the Hangar Theater in Ithaca, NY from July 27 – August 3.

The one-person musical comedy is set inside a theatre in Schenectady, following an unnamed apocalyptic event. This event has wiped out most of the human race, including every cast member of a new musical about the Titanic… everyone, that is, except for Todd, who was cast in the show’s smallest role. As the world burns, Todd attempts to perform the epic Titanic musical alone, without his partner, without his fellow cast members, and possibly without anyone else in the world being alive. Todd vs the Titanic is a hilarious and heartfelt tour de force about the power of art to sustain us.

Next, ATF will stage a concert presentation of the new pop musical The King’s Wife (running July 19 – 21). With music and lyrics by Grammy-nominated Nashville songwriter Jamie Floyd and book by Mêlisa Annis, the sweeping epic imagines the secret history of the first wives of Henry VIII. Produced by special arrangement with Jennifer Kranz.

The season will close with Jeffrey Hatcher’s edgy new adaptation of Dial “M” for Murder (running Aug. 1 – 7), the play by Frederick Knott which inspired the iconic Alfred Hitchcock film. Said Weisfeld, “This delicious season takes us on an epic journey from dazzling comedy, to breathtaking drama, to stylish thrills. And it reminds us that great stories start here at the Adirondack Theatre Festival.”

Additionally, ATF audiences can sneak a peek at a newly commissioned ATF play. Worth: An Intimate Exhibition, is a one-person play written and performed by Jessica Frances Dukes, who starred in the Netflix hit Ozark as Agent Maya Miller. Dukes will perform a developmental reading at the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council’s Lapham Gallery from July 12 – 14. ATF audiences may add this performance to their subscription for $15. 

Three-show subscriptions are $130, or $75 for those age 25 and under, from now until May 1 and may be purchased at www.atfestival.org, or by calling the Wood Theater Box Office at 518-480-4878, or in-person at the Box Office at 207 Glen Street. The Box Office is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from noon to 5pm.

About Adirondack Theatre Festival

Martha Banta and David Turner, along with a 12-member founding committee, created the Adirondack Theatre Festival in 1993 and presented its first 18-day season of new and contemporary theatre at the French Mountain Playhouse within the Lake George RV Park in 1995. Today ATF is the leading professional theatre in New York’s Capital Region dedicated to emerging artists, new plays and new musicals.

Each summer ATF produces a nine-week season at the Wood Theater in Glens Falls. The organization operates under a Small Professional Theatre Agreement with Actors’ Equity Association. The actors seen on the ATF stage, as well as the designers and directors, have worked regularly on and off-Broadway, on television and in movies.