The New Group celebrates its 30th season with The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, a new musical from the Pulitzer Prize finalist team of Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, and co-creator Rory Pelsue. Who remembers that famous 2006 New York Post photo of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton? What if there was a fourth? Who's seen it, and what did you think?
"The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse" Photo: Monique Carboni
Review: The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, a Musical Collision of Pop Trash and True Crime. The creators of Circle Jerk debut a new musical with the New Group off-Broadway.
Unapologetically campy, Last Bimbo is also stealthily brilliant, pulling back the curtain on the smoke-and-mirrors show that has overtaken much of our culture and politics. This high age of fraud is also a golden opportunity for storytellers, and no theatermakers are seizing it with as much glee as Foley and Breslin.
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THE LAST BIMBO OF THE APOCALYPSE: SKANKS FOR THE Y2K MEMORIES By Michael Sommers
★★★☆☆ Gen Z vloggers seek clicks and a missing chick in mixed-up new musical
Who’s feeling nostalgic for the early 2000s? Who loves social media? Who enjoys a silly musical? Answer all of these queries affirmatively, and The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse could well be a new Off Broadway show for you. Or maybe not.
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse may traffic in those Y2K aesthetics but there’s nothing old about this fresh and captivating new musical from the deliciously deranged minds of Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, who brought us the now iconic and Pulitzer Prize nominated Circle Jerk.
Review: The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse at The New Group at The Pershing Square Signature Center
This raucous new musical imagines a missing person in an early-2000s paparazzi photo and dives into the depths of the internet to track her down. Lane Williamson reviews.
On the whole, though, The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse is a smart, funny piece of work and has a lot to say about how internet culture has evolved, but how it’s sort of always been the same. People have always talked **** about other people. People have always wanted to be famous by any means necessary. People have always wanted to stand center stage and belt. Hell yeah, I say. More musicals like this, please.
New musical “Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse” is inspired by the infamous 2006 picture of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan in a car after a hard night of partying.
