MADE ME NUCLEAR Will Extend For An Additional Eight Weeks

The critically acclaimed Made Me Nuclear, now in its fifth month, is extending for an additional eight weeks. Charlie Lustman's original pop music operetta about surviving cancer is "simply irresistible" says the LA Times. This "feel good cancer musical" (LAT) is an "inspiring" tale that will "grab you in a bear hug right away and not let go. "Touching...life-affirming...his songs are pitched in an intimate, jazzy, bluesy style," says the LA Weekly.

WHO: Written and Performed by Singer/Songwriter Charlie Lustman. Lustman grew up in LA and is a graduate of Berklee College of Music; he spent ten years touring the world performing and released two studio albums in Denmark: The Golden Road, vol.1 and SHAYA. He also wrote and performed live the theme song to the ABC TV program "The Mike and Maty show." He is perhaps best known to Los Angeles audiences for his role in rescuing and reopening The Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, the last remaining silent cinema in the world, which he turned into a one-of-a-kind successful working revival theatre lauded by film buffs globally. In 2006, after being diagnosed with a rare cancer in his upper jaw he sold the theatre and returned to his first passion -music. Writing and composing throughout his treatment and recovery he produced his third studio album, Made Me Nuclear, arguably the first pop music album about surviving cancer. Released in July 2008 "a-dollar-a-disc" will be donated to The Sarcoma Alliance, the only national organization dedicated to helping those afflicted with this rare disease. Made Me Nuclear, the Operetta, now in its fifth month, is the theatrical adaptation of the album arguably the first pop operetta about surviving cancer.

Directed by Chris DeCarlo. DeCarlo has been directing, writing and acting in Los Angeles for over 40 years and is acknowledged for his critically acclaimed crafting of world and American premiere productions by such renowned playwrights as Michel Garneau, Stephen King, Brenda Krantz, Robert B. Parker, Sheila Rae, Annie Reiner, Sammy Shore, Robert Waldman, David Williamson, and Lois Wyse, including five of Playwright Jerry Mayer's plays. He has directed more than 200 plays on three continents, from the Henry Street Settlement Theatre in New York to the Dream Factory in Warwickshire and the gargantuan Hitomi Memorial Hall in Tokyo. As a performer, DeCarlo has created more than 300 roles, with over 10,000 on-stage performances. Over a quarter of a million people have been touched by his award-winning characterization of Yiddish humorist Sholom Aleichem.

Sound design by John Ugarte
Lighting design by The Attic Room
Costumes by Ri
Production Stage Manager John Waroff

Presented by The Sarcoma Alliance (www.TheSarcomaAlliance.com) -founded by sarcoma survivors, its mission is to guide, educate and support people with sarcomas and their family, friends and caregivers, financial support from BEYOND WORDS PUBLISHING (publisher of THE SECRET)

Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. through March 31, 2009.

TICKETS: Regular admission $20.00

Tickets and information online at www.MadeMeNuclear.com or call 1-866-468-3399. Group sales call 1-310-394-9779 x651

Santa Monica Playhouse, The Main Stage
1211 4th Street Santa Monica, CA 90401

By public transportation: take the Santa Monica Blue Bus or the LA Metro Rapid #720 and exit at 4th and Wilshire