Lysistrata Jones
| Lysistrata Jones | |
|---|---|
Opening Night Playbill Cover | |
| Music | Lewis Flinn |
| Lyrics | Lewis Flinn |
| Book | Douglas Carter Beane |
| Basis | Lysistrata by Aristophanes |
| Productions | 2011 Broadway |
Lysistrata Jones is a musical comedy adaptation of Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata. The book is by Douglas Carter Beane and the score is by Lewis Flinn. After a critically acclaimed off-Broadway run with Transport Group Theatre Company, the show opened on Broadway in December 2011 and closed in January 2012. The show tells the tale of the men on a losing college basketball team whose cheerleader girlfriends refuse to have sex with them until they win a game.