OUR 35th SEASON MEDICINE SHOW is absolutely DIZZY with JOY to announce the AMAZING FEATS of theatrical DARING that awaits our audience this season: THE YEAR OF THE VERSE PLAY. In December, we will help you survive the holidays with BAH HUMBUG! a Merry Un-Christmas. This evening of Yuletide mirth will include the hopelessly hilarious AN XMAS STORY by Jeff Goode and AN UBU CHRISTMAS by Stephen Policoff. Bring a change of pants! In January, things will take a turn for the verse. POET'S VAUDEVILLE will extend through the middle of the month with a plethora of poetical pleasures & treasures from Simon Pettet, David Meltzer, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kenneth Koch and Frank O'Hara for starters. There will be readings of verse plays by ElŽna Rivera, Tom Savage, Rowell Kaufman and Gary Heidt. And, as if that's not enough, we're also going to bring back some old friends, composers Brad Burg, Bob Dennis, David Hollister, Denman Maroney and Butch Morris. They're going to revive some Medicine Show musical-poetic classics for you, including numbers from HIM by e e cummings (Maroney); Popeye Among the Polar Bears by Kenneth Koch (Morris), Medicine Show: An American Entertainment, Bound to Rise, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Line of Least Existence (Dennis), Annajanska- The Bolshevik Empress, A Sensation Novel, A Measure for Measure, A Change of Hearts, Ain't We Got Fun (Hollister); and Medicine Show's first production, Edward II (Berg). In March-hold on to your barnacles-Medicine Show will bring back our word-smashing adaptation of FINNEGANS WAKE. Our original production was visually and aurally stunning, and we can't stand to stop uttering those magical, mind-altering syllables. In May and June, depending on the dictates of the demiurges of funding, we will bring you either a never-seen-before play, recently rediscovered, by Frank O'Hara and Arnold Weinstien-UNDERCOVER LOVER-or a stage adaptation of Milt Gross's NIZE BABY, a comic look at tenement life in the 1920's. If you are driven to vote for one or the other, please vote with your pocketbook, it's tax deductable, and we'll put you on the board. Throughout the year, we'll be presenting readings by great living writers in our duo-decadular Word/Play season-heads up for that. If you aren't on our mailing or email lists, write, call our email us: Medicine Show, 549 West 52nd, New York, NY 10019, (212)262 4216, and/or medicineshowtheater@juno.com.

For more information, call Gary Heidt at 212 262 4216.