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Rampage Of The Stegosaur (2009) - Musical based on the 2006 Manka Bros. film about love-crossed Velociraptors on the run from the rampaging Stegosaurs.

Ford Trucks Presents Hedda Gabler (2009 ) - New production of Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece presented by Ford Trucks.

That's Gatsby! (2009) - Musical based on novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Suck My Kiss (2008) - Red Hot Chili Peppers have finally be coerced into penning a Broadway Musical! (We'd tell you more, but we don't want to Give It Away Now.)

Gulag: A New Musical (2007) - Musical based on The Gulag Archipelago trilogy by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Buried Alive: A Musical (2004) - Experimental musical following five characters who were recently buried alive.

Shakespeare's The Odd Couple (2002) - Neil Simon's play set in Elizabethan times.

The Spirit of Music (2000) - Progressive musical version of Nietzche's "The Birth Of Tragedy", featuring a group of young Goth friends who discuss the dichotomy between Dionysian and Apollonian tragegy while fall madly in love.

Cathy (1993) - Off-Broadway musical based on the comic strip character. (Closed to to rights clearance issues.)

Sensible Shoes (1992) - Innovative all-tap production featuring dancers in comfy loafers.

Viet-Mom (1991) - Heartbreaking epic love story musical set during the Vietnam War.

The Potato Eaters (1989) - Musical based on the characters from Van Gogh's painting The Potato Eaters.

Slaughterhouse Live! (1986) - Musical version of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

Hey Kids! Touch My Body! (1985) - Originally a touring school assembly show educating youngsters about the onset of puberty, it was so popular that Manka Bros. brought it to off-Broadway to great acclaim.

Dog Patch '79 (1979) - Live theme park show produced by Manka Bros. at the Dog Patch Theme Park in the Ozark Mountains.

The Duchess of Malfi (1979) - Famous staging of the John Webster play first at the Old Vic in London then the Palace Theatre in New York.

Ken & Rhonda's First Apartment (1978) - Off-Broadway musical about the trials and tribulations of a couple in the early 20s after they get their first apartment.

Balls (1975) - Bertolt Brecht's play starred Joey Levitch in his first appearance on Broadway in 40 years.

Oh, Sweet Mama Child (1973) - This homage to southern black culture featuring a cast of whites in blackface was not allowed to open.

The Smells, The Sounds (1968) - Bill Fosse choreographed this funktastic musical set amongst the homeless living in a Manhattan alleyway.

'Tis Pity She's A Whore (1967) - A Manka Playhouse presentation-live television event. (The show was a disaster as several of the actors got food poisoning during the performance.)

Scream! (or Munch Ado About Nothing) (1966) - Musical retelling of the life of Edvard Munch.

Crazy Beat (1964) - Musical about the Beat Generation. (Closed in Connecticut.)

I Miss Bora Bora (1961) - Broadway Manka's ambitious 7-hour adaptation of James Michener's Hawaii spanned centuries, featured a cast of 250 and was set in Thailand.

Owl Creek (1959) - Musical drama based on An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.

Pills Are Poppin' (1950) - A dreary hospital cancer ward gets a facelift and a jolt of pizzazz when new administrator Donald O'Connor takes over. Can he stay upbeat even when HE gets cancer? (Made into the 1951 film "Cancer Dancer".)

All Dolled Up (1949) - A very young Joey Levitch starred as wax sculptor Madame Tussaud (aging from 15 to 89) in this groundbreaking musical.

Goin' To Town (1944) - World War II musical about a group of flyboys goin' to town. (Featured an actual World War II combat airplane landing on stage.)

Muckrakers (1942) - The compelling story of journalist John Spargo and his undying efforts to change child labor laws in the early 20th century. (Show shut down after law-enforcement discovers the children in the cast have been forced to work 14 hours a day.)

Society Gals (1939) - Society gals go to cocktail parties with a sophisticated bunch of playboy playwrights.

Tit For Tat (1937) - The Markham Sisters starred in this lavish musical about identical twin sisters who vie to achieve the finest female physique, with tragic results.

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