The World Still Needs You, Boris Yeltsin!—Workshop Performance

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Studio 401
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 4—Studio 401
Boston
MA
02215
United States

The World Still Needs You, Boris Yeltsin! is a new comic musical based on actual events (although highly fictionalized). In 1989, after the dissolution of the USSR, Boris Yeltsin was sent to the US on a fact-finding mission, representing the new Russian republic. He toured the US and was rather bored by everything, including his visit to the NASA Space Center in Houston. After NASA, he was taken to see a large grocery store in Houston, and was overwhelmed by the incredible variety and quantity of products available to regular Americans in a capitalist society. As a result, he went back to Russia, was elected president, and established capitalism in his country. This explanation skips a few steps but is basically what happened. Really. 

This performance is suggested for folks over 16 years of age due to strong language and the comic attempt to offend everyone—especially Texans! (Think of an extreme South Park episode.)

Music by Evan Mack
Lyrics by Joshua McGuire
Book by Evan Mack, Joshua McGuire, and Christopher Mirto
Directed by David Gately


Boston Conservatory thanks audience members for viewing this program information online. This paperless program saved 200 sheets of paper, 21 gallons of water, and 18 pounds of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.