A small-town girl takes a twisty Perp Walk from shame to fame in this raucous, crime-ridden musical full of singing and dancing perverts and crooks. And that's just the lawyers.
Fresh out of a Midwestern cornfield, our utterly innocent heroine finds herself — through the sometimes cruel and inscrutable magic of Musical Theater — dragged in handcuffs into grimy Manhattan Criminal Court, where she has transformed into an irresistible composite of tabloid tropes.
She's a blonde! She's a co-ed! And she's an accused serial killer! Of tragic, celebrity puppies!
In turns frightened, flummoxed and really, really ticked off, "Puppy Girl," as she is dubbed by the ravening press, must now run a comic gantlet of power-hungry prosecutors, sleazy lawyers, and hack reporters, all eager to get famous by destroying her. She soon finds out that her only friends are a media-savvy quartet of fellow perps: an adorable shoe fetishist, a volatile hip hop hellion, a check-scammer whose roommate is a corpse, and the annoying Broadway Groper.
Puppy Girl also finds out that she likes all this attention. A lot. And maybe even more than everyone around her.
Kyle Minshew and Sarah Statler, above.
From left, below; Susaye Lawson, Sarah Statler, Kyle Minshew and Nicholas Park
