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Chicken-Fried Ciccone
by J.Stephen Brantley
Directed by David Drake



Armed with an acoustic guitar, actor-playwright J.Stephen Brantley reveals how he got from junkie to functional with a little help from the queen of reinvention.  Chicken-Fried Ciccone is one man's journey to heroin and back, set to countrified covers of new and classic Madge.

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Performances

May 31 at 7:00pm

Admission

$10

Rating: NC-17 Strong Language and Mature Content


West End Theater
263 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024
"Monday night at 5:30pm is not a prime theater-going hour. So when you're in a tiny basement theater in the East 




Village at 5:30pm on a Monday and the house is packed you begin to suspect something interesting is going to 




happen.  Such was the case with Chicken-Fried Ciccone.  A touching, but not treacly, night at the theater with 




a captivating performer."   – Maxamoo


"More than just an inspired karaoke act, Chicken-Fried Ciccone is a free-flowing cowboy cabaret, and Brantley exudes 

a warm stage presence in a handful of spontaneous moments that wouldn’t be found in a more structured theater 


piece." – Huffington Post



"Though the style is casual, intimate–even sly in places–the ideas and values are strongly felt and pack a serious 



punch. Chicken-Fried Ciccone traces a very satisfying arc of transformation, and if anything I wanted it to be longer." 


 – NY Theatre Now