If you are seeing a new musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival that starts off with a character known as Cockman who wakes up the sleepy town every morning singing about choking his chicken, you would think you were in for a wild and fun time. Unfortunately, those first few minutes of The Legend of D.C. Colorado are the highpoint of its 90-minute run time. It’s strictly downhill from there. There are a few laughs garnered about a mother who feeds her two idiot bastard sons slop every meal and makes them shuck corn every day.
The action does not take place in Colorado but rather at a halfway point in an isosceles triangle between Washington, D.C. and the state of Colorado which TravelMath puts somewhere near St. Louis, Missouri. The plot is all over the place with a demon (Jack De Sanz) who was kicked out of hell, probably for obsessing over his own name Lucindro Tusk which he repeats and sings about endlessly. He kills everyone he meets with a knife to the sternum. He plans to con his two bastard sons into getting a gemstone from the neighborhood Bruja (Lo Artiz who has the cast’s strongest voice) so he can open a portal back into hell. The cleverest plot gimmick is a silver horse, named Long John Silver (Joey Swift), who has a long, long, long back and spouts scripture.
The music all sounds the same and the lyrics seldom rhyme. Just because the words ocean and Owen both begin with an “o” and end with a “n” does not make them rhyme. There are too many songs, most not enhancing character or forwarding the plot, just acting as filler between lame jokes. Constantine Malahias and Christopher Merlino are the co-writers and play the dumb and dumber brothers Clive and Owen. Felix Birdie, who plays the Prophet and other town oddities, composed the music. Alessandra Mesa took credit as director.
https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/7413