By David Gordon for TheaterMania, 16 September 2015
For Nicole Parker, the new play-with-music These Paper Bullets! is a gift that will keep on giving. “Someone said the other day, ‘Can you imagine? You’ll be doing this show in 2016.’ We’re doing this show until next year, which is awesome.”
Written by Rolin Jones and featuring songs by Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong, this 1960s-flavored riff on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is currently in performance at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, where it runs through October 18. After less than a monthlong break, it will reopen off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company, where it will play through early January.
A veteran of MadTV and a former Elphaba inWicked, Parker is pumped to be part of the cast of Jackson Gay’s production, and in a leading-lady role, no less. On the morning of the first L.A. preview, she talked with TheaterMania about playing Beatrice to Justin Kirk’s Benedick, singing the tunes of a legendary punk rocker, and enjoying the work that comes with putting together a play from the ground up.
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