Now that Punk Gone Broadway is a reality — thank you, Green Day — why shouldn't Teo Leo set aside his nearly two decades of principled punk for a shot at musical immortality (and a living wage) via musical theater? Enter Reginald VanVoorst, a theater impresario who works with the band to bring this gem from The Brutalist Bricks to The Great White Way. If that sounds absurd, well, it is. WFMU Best Show host Tom Scharpling directed this satire, enlisting comedian Paul F. Tompkins to star as VanVoorst, plus cameos by John Hodgman and Julie Klausner to ensure the proper gravitas. --> watch "Bottled In Cork"
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Ted Leo & The Pharmacists "Bottled In Cork" (Matador)
Tom Scharpling, director | Robert Hatch-Miller + Puloma Basu, producers | xxx, production co | Paul Yee, DP | Joaquin Perez, editor
