Thursday, May 21, 2026

Space at Irondale
85 S Oxford St, Brooklyn, NY 11217

SCHEDULED TO PARTICIPATE

Artists scheduled to participate include Alex Gibson (Octet), Bonnie Milligan (Kimberly Akimbo), Cassadee Pope (The Voice), Colm Summers (Every Brilliant Thing), Eli Bolin (John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch), John Carrafa (The Gilded Age), Kate Wetherhead (The Devil Wears Prada the Musical), Larry Owens (A Strange Loop), Michael Mitnick (Scotland, PA), Natalie Walker (The Big Gay Jamboree), Nina Hellman (Wet Hot American Summer), Paige Price (Safety Not Guaranteed) and many more to be announced. 

ABOUT THE EVENT

In 2006, we decided writing, staging, memorizing and performing new plays in 24 hours simply wasn’t enough of a challenge — and thus, The 24 Hour Musicals were born. Our musical event features marquee talent up close and personal, with singing, dancing and a live band on hand for musical theater’s most ambitious high-wire act.

Designed as an intimate, off-Broadway counterpart to The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway,  The 24 Hour Musicals launched in 2006 with a secret show, featuring a musical by the late great David Rakoff. Since then, we’ve regularly gathered to create and perform four brand new short musicals in a single day, rotating between various NYC venues including the Linda Gross Theater at Atlantic Theater Company, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, and the Lynn F. Angelson Theater at Classic Stage Company, among others.

The 24 Hour Musicals are a madcap night of theater, where anything is possible — you never know when you’ll see SNL’s Rachel Dratch as a musical theater star, or Jake Gyllenhaal in quarantine singing a love song by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire, or John Mulaney belting out a tune in a diaper as “Baby Onesie.”