Ryan Raftery returns to Joe’s Pub for his seventh consecutive run, premiering his new celebrity biomusical comedy, Mother of the Year, which opens Wednesday, March 15, and runs on varying dates through Sunday, March 26.
Raftery’s latest piece is an irreverent fable about the woman behind arguably the world’s most famous and oddly enduring brand—The Kardashians. Mother of the Year finds Kris Jenner desperate for more kids to schill, so she travels to Laos for an experimental fertility treatment. Something goes wrong and she’s afflicted with temporary amnesia and is forced to stay in Laos to be re-educated about the role she’s played in creating “The Kardashians” as we know it.
Then, she finds out that the experiment actually worked and she’s pregnant at 67 with a girl! However, now that she has new clarity on her parenting choices, she considers whether or not she wants to continue the pregnancy. But UH OH! Roe v Wade has been overturned during her stay abroad, which galvanizes the “New Kris” into using her family’s 1.2 billion followers to do something good for women everywhere and help get the law reinstated. And it’s a musical!
The stageplay and parody lyrics are written and performed by Raftery, set to songs by artists as varied as Lady Gaga. Miley Cyrus, Alan Menken and Sara Bareilles. Story by Ryan Raftery and Jay Turton, with musical direction by Brandon James Gwinn.
Raftery has written 10 shows, including the solo shows Ryan Raftery & Friends: A Solo Act and Ryan Raftery’s It Gets Worse. His celebrity bio-musicals have been based on the lives of Anna Wintour, Andy Cohen, Martha Stewart, Calvin Klein, Ivanka Trump and Andy Warhol.
Tickets are available at joespub.com or by phone from 10 AM-7:00 PM daily at 212-967-7555. There is a $12 food / two (2) drink minimum per person per show, unless otherwise noted.
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater is located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC
