Teeth
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A musical comedy that sends up the contradictions of purity culture from the perspective of a young woman with a frightening anatomical anomaly.
Dawn O'Keefe is an Evangelical teen with a bizarre secret: two rows of gleaming white teeth perfectly placed to preserve her chastity. When the supposedly upright Christian men around her prove more interested in taking advantage of her body than in protecting it, they quickly learn to keep their hands (and other appendages) to themselves. From Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) and Anna K. Jacobs (POP!), and based on the cult classic film of the same name, Teeth is a toe-tapping, gut-busting, musical satire that gets under the skin of patriarchy and our sex-obsessed and sex-repressed society.
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Anna K. Jacobs is a Jonathan Larson and Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award-winning composer, lyricist, and book writer. In addition to Teeth, her stage musicals include POP!; Anytown; Harmony, Kansas; Echo; and Stella and the Moon Man. She also contributed music and lyrics to the multi-composer works, Witnesses and Letters to the President, and penned the screenplay for The Real Gemma Jordan, which she is now adapting into a stage musical with composer-lyricist Rob Rokicki. Jacobs and her playwright-collaborator, Anna Ziegler, are currently working on A House Without Windows, a new musical about the life and disappearance of child prodigy author, Barbara Newhall Follett, which was commissioned by Barbara Whitman Productions and Grove Entertainment. She is also writing the book for a new musical adaptation for Disney Cruise Line Entertainment.
