THE GREAT AMERICAN CASKET COMPANY invites you to look at life, death, and legacy in historic Green-Wood Cemetery (photo by Kelly Klein, Calloway Productions)
Green-Wood Cemetery
Fifth Ave. and 25th St., Brooklyn
Thursday – Sunday through June 26, $75, 7:00
www.green-wood.com/gacc
As if there weren’t already enough ghosts and dead bodies in historic Green-Wood Cemetery, which boasts such “famous residents” — that’s their phrase, not ours — as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Boss Tweed, Leonard Bernstein, Horace Greeley, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the Brooklyn landmark is now hosting The Great American Casket Company, presented with BREAD Arts Collective and Modern Rebel, the latter specializing in “badass events that give back.” The show, which runs Thursday to Sunday through June 26, is billed as a “roving, immersive theatre experience” that examines “life, death, and personal legacy” with a large cast of musicians, actors, and aerialists and numerous rules. We’re not sure how immersive we want to get in a cemetery, even such a lovely one as Green-Wood, but we’ll be checking out the production soon and will report back. That is, if we are able to.