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The Black Suits

Music and Lyrics by Joe Iconis

Book by Joe Iconis and Robert Maddock

A rock musical about a high school garage band on suburban Long Island trying to win The St. Anne’s Battle of the Bands.  The story of two teens and their struggle to learn how to be real friends as the inevitability of adulthood threatens to pull them apart.  A musical about dreams, blood, Pop Tarts, records, drug runs, blue hair, the St. Anne’s Battle of the Bands, and the undying transformative coolness of rock and roll music.

2013 Center Theater Group World Premiere!

2012 Barrington Stage Company Workshop Production
Featuring Ben Platt, Jason Hite, Harrison Chad and Annie Golden.

2008 SPF at the Public Theater Workshop
Featuring Krysta Rodriguez, Jason Tam, and Nick Blaemire.

 
 
 

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2013 Center Theater Group World Premiere

 

2012 Barrington Stage Company Workshop Production

 

 
 
The Black Suits News
Theatermania: Joe Iconis kicks off Composer Concerts series with “Blue Hair” from THE BLACK SUITS
Theatermania: Joe Iconis kicks off Composer Concerts series with “Blue Hair” from THE BLACK SUITS

Joe Iconis kicks off Theatermania’s Composer Concerts series with his song “Blue Hair” from his musical THE BLACK SUITS…

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The Black Suits reunion at Be More Chill's #PostShowHang
The Black Suits reunion at Be More Chill's #PostShowHang

Back in 2008, there was a reading of a Joe Iconis musical called The Black Suits. That reading starred Nick Blaemire, Lance Rubin, Jason SweetTooth Williams, and Jason Tam. On Wednesday, July 10, 2019, for the first time in 11 years, the four original Black Suits reunited with fearless leader Joe Iconis to perform ON BROADWAY, making a many-…

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Theater Review: 'The Black Suits' At The Kirk Douglas Theatre
Theater Review: 'The Black Suits' At The Kirk Douglas Theatre

The teen years are filled with relationship woes and fears of growing up, and “The Black Suits,” directed by John Simpkins and now playing at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, does a great job of capturing that teenage angst within the confines of a Long Island garage. Joe Iconis’s new musical...

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20 Questions for Joe Iconis
20 Questions for Joe Iconis

Joe Iconis has made his name as a songwriter/dramatist and bandleader in New York City with such shows as Bloodsong of Love and The Black Suits, which had a workshop production last year at Massachusetts’s Barrington Stage and will premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, Oct. 27...

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VIDEO: Behind the Musical: Joe Iconis & "The Black Suits"
VIDEO: Behind the Musical: Joe Iconis & "The Black Suits"

Every rock and roll fantasy begins in a garage. Scattered among the drums and guitars are the hopes, dreams, angst and rebellion of a new generation screaming to be heard. Joe Iconis made a big Smash when he penned "Broadway Here I Come" for the NBC series. Now this Jonathan Larson Award-winning...

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BroadwayWorld Interviews Joe Iconis
BroadwayWorld Interviews Joe Iconis

During a career that is still in its relative infancy, Joe Iconis (who will be just 31 this month) has written the scores for six musicals, the book and lyrics for three of them and co-wrote the book and lyrics on the other three. He got the idea for his first musical, The Black Suits, in 2003 while a senior at NYU and two...

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