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The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks

Music, Lyrics, and Book by Joe Iconis

Based on the novel by Nancy McArthur

A family rock musical about two brothers and their unusual plants.  Featuring parents on the brink of breakdown, rage-filled middle school football stars, and a psychotic cheerleader named Patty Jenkins, the show is an otherwordly finger painting of life in Suburbia.  The off-kilter musical, based on the popular book series, celebrates bromance in the midst of the commotion that is frequently caused by alien plants.

2008 Theaterworks USA Production at Lucille Lortel Theater and National Tour.

 
“It’s a rock-‘em, sock-‘em little score.”
— Time Out New York
 

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2008 Theaterworks USA Production at Lucille Lortel Theater

 
 
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Time Out New York Review: The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks
Time Out New York Review: The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks

Just as successful children’s shows once spawned junior versions of themselves—think Muppet Babies and Tiny Toon Adventures—so, perhaps, are musical-theater favorites ready for their own era of kid-size knockoffs. This is what comes to mind while watching Joe Iconis’s sweetly likable The Plant...