Planet Ant Theatre presents the musical satire comedy, Cancer! The Musical, weekends from November 9 through December 15, 2012, at the Marlene Boll Theatre in the Downtown Y at 1401 Broadway Street in Detroit (1 block south of Grand Circus Park).

Cancer! The Musical tells the stories of a researcher who believes he has the cure for cancer, a rival pharmaceutical executive who wants to steal the cure, and a surgeon who needs it to save the woman he loves.

It is the work of a current WSU graduate student (WSU undergrad class of 2005) and two Wayne State University alumni:

• John Edwartowski, Musical Director, Score, Lyrics
WSU College of Fine and Performing Arts - BA in Music - 2005
WSU College of Fine and Performing Arts - MA in Music Theory - expected May 2013

• Shawn Handlon, Director, Book, Lyrics
WSU School of Business Administration - BA in Management Information Systems - 1992

• Thomas Donnellon, Book, Lyrics
WSU College of Liberal Arts - BA in Chemistry/Biology - 1984
WSU School of Medicine - MD - 1988

Tom Donnellon, MD, is a cancer survivor and surgeon with HOPE Surgical based in Port Huron. He co-wrote the script with his brother and Second City Detroit alum, Shawn Handlon of Harper Woods. Local musician, John Edwartowski of Harper Woods, wrote the score. Edwartowski and Handlon worked together at The Second City Detroit.

Cancer! features 15 original songs with music by Edwartowski and lyrics by Handlon, Donnellon and Edwartowski. The show is directed by Shawn Handlon. The musical director is John Edwartowski.

The play was originally staged at the Abreact Theater in Detroit in fall of 2005. Locally, it also ran at the Planet Ant Theatre in Hamtramck in May 2006 and the pre-Elizabeth Theatre in May 2011. In 2007, it was featured off Broadway in the New York City International Fringe Festival. Cancer! received a Wilde Award in 2006 for Favorite Local Professional Production-Musical (encoremichigan.com). The production will donate a portion of ticket sales to Gilda's Club Metro Detroit in Royal Oak.

Show dates:
Fri, Nov 9 @ 8PM
Sat, Nov 10 @ 8PM
Fri, Nov 16 @ 8PM
Sat, Nov 17 @ 8PM
Sun, Nov 18 @ 2PM
Wed, Nov 21 @ 8PM
Fri, Nov 23 @ 8PM
Sat, Nov 24 @ 8PM
Sun, Nov 25 @ 2PM
Fri, Nov 30 @ 8PM
Sat, Dec 1 @ 8PM
Sun, Dec 2 @ 2PM
Fri, Dec 7 @ 8PM
Sat, Dec 8 @ 8PM
Sun, Dec 9 @ 2PM
Fri, Dec 14 @ 8PM
Sat, Dec 15 @ 8PM

Contact:
Shawn Handlon
313-207-8632
shawnhandlon@gmail.com

Visit http://cancer-themusical.com and http://planetant.com/#9cf/custom_plain