Lysistrata Jones | |
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Music | Lewis Flinn |
Lyrics | Lewis Flinn |
Book | Douglas Carter Beane |
Basis | Lysistrata by Aristophanes |
Productions | 2011 Broadway |
Lysistrata Jones is a musical comedy adaptation of Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata.[1] The book is by Douglas Carter Beane and the score is by Lewis Flinn.[1] After a critically acclaimed off-Broadway run with Transport Group Theatre Company,[2] the show opened on Broadway in December 2011[3] and closed in January 2012. The show tells the tale of the men on a losing college basketball team whose cheerleader girlfriends refuse to have sex with them until they win a game.[4]