Dirty Laundry 2.0: The Songs of Michael R. Jackson

Show Description

Michael R. Jackson makes his Joe’s Pub debut with the help of some very special guests, following up MICHAEL R. JACKSON: DIRTY LAUNDRY, (an evening ‘o song first presented in the Uncharted Series at Ars Nova) with DIRTY LAUNDRY 2.0: The Songs of Michael R. Jackson. If you weren’t at Ars Nova last time, here’s all you need to know: Michael can’t get it together. He lives in squalor, he has no job, no boyfriend, and he owes all of the major credit cards money. He’s got an axe to grind, a joke or two and underwear in need of some serious washing. Drawing on influences including (but not limited to) Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos and Liz Phair, MJ offers up songs about East Village orgies, fair weather friends, and the power of MC Hammer pants in DIRTY LAUNDRY 2.0: an exciting, new, brutally intimate, and darkly humorous spinning song cycle.

Michael is a graduate of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Musical Theatre Writing Program. He was won no fancy-pants awards, received no accolades, and has been offered no synergistic branding opportunities. He has however written book and/or lyrics for the musicals Only Children (LCT Director’s Lab, NYU Undergraduate Main Stage) and Menu (in development). He is currently working with director Maria Goyanes on a musical formerly known as Fast Food Town but until further notice, referred to as Untitled-Of-Show.

You can hear some of Michael R. Jackson's songs HERE, on MYSPACE and YOUTUBE.