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By Sol Park
Brooklyn Daily
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With a giant hand-cranked screen moving the scenery, elaborate sets featuring fun trap doors and smoke machines, colorful costumes, and lovable puppets, an upcoming street theater production is definitely for kids — but one of the puppets is an unmanned aerial drone, oil pipelines are a part of the landscape, and the bad guys are busy fracking for oil and invading our cyber-privacy.
“It’s a musical that’s for adults and children, we hit a lot of whatever is going on in the world,” said Cyrstal Field, director of the Theater for the New City production.
“Our villains are sort of lovable villains because greed is really the main villain.”
The heroes of the show, on the other hand, are humble sanitation workers who just want a break. But every time they want to take a vacation, it seems like there’s some big mess they have to clean up.
According to Field, these regular working men have no shortage of heroism.
“We’re inspired by them, the sanitation workers,” said Field. “It’s a rough job and it takes it’s toll.”
The show will go to each of New York City’s five boroughs, including Brooklyn’s Coney Island, Bedford Stuyvesant, and Sunset Park.
“Every year we’ve chosen someone to be a hero,” said the director, who also wrote the musical. “It’s always a worker of some kind. One year it was a bus driver.”
“Sanitation, or Off the Grid,” at Herbert Von King Park, August 11, 2 pm, Coney Island Boardwalk at W. Tenth St., August 16, 6:30 pm, Sunset Park, Sixth Avenue and 44th Street, August 24, 2 pm, free.
