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Be a part of Penny Arcade and Steve Zehentner’s ongoing development of their nine-part musical memoir, Penny Arcade’s The Art of Becoming. For January 19^th, Penny will present new writing from Episode 4: 1974-1981 – The Reluctant Recluse. Steve will accompany Penny and lay down an array of cool 1970’s grooves. 

The Reluctant Recluse: Penny returns from Spain and for this first time since she was 16, ends up back in Connecticut at her mother’s house. She investigates her parents past, the secrets hidden from her. 

In Hartford, Connecticut, she meets Bohdan, a Ukrainian born sculptor and leathersmith. In the winter of 1975, they decamp in a 1947 Ford pickup truck for the deep woods of Maine. They live in a one room shack without electricity, running water, or heat, amid a sprawling largely heterosexual, back-to-the-land movement. 
 
Bohdan becomes fully committed to living  as a hunter and tracker, squarely at odds with the Hippie settlers. Penny immerses herself in the world of rural Maine characters whose families have lived there for generations. She takes over a town held theatre and fashions herself as an artist advocate, presenting and advocating for poets, musicians and theatre people while performing with a rag tag group of artists in rural Grange Halls. 

Penny is caught between worlds as she discovers America for the first time and navigates a straight world. But tragedy lies waiting in the shadows, paving the way for Penny’s spiritual and artistic evolution and her return to New York in 1981.

Penny Arcade’s The Art of Becoming:  From downtown New York’s most articulate artistic survivor, comes Penny Arcade’s revealing and often hilarious musical memoir, The Art of Becoming.

Decade by decade, an American life is revealed in all its fabulous glory, with a cast of characters spanning some of the world’s most notable art and civic imagineers, whose lives have brought more shape to our history than we could know – but Penny does – and she’s lived to tell the many tales.

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Pangea is New York’s iconic restaurant / cabaret dinner theater. All shows have a $20 food and/or beverage minimum per person (unless otherwise indicated on your ticket.)

Tickets online are $25. Tickets at the door, if available, are $30 (Cash Only).

The house opens at 6:00pm for food and beverage service.

Please note the ticket price goes mostly to the performers and production staff. The club sells food and beverages to continue to bring live music to NYC. 

We do not take reservations and seating is first come, first seated.

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