Yeast Nation

Victoria Theatre
2961 16th Street San Francisco

"What would a musicalized story about the first single-celled organisms sound like?" That's the burning age-old question Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann -- the Tony Award-winners behind Urinetown -- set out to answer with their bizarrely hilarious rock musical Yeast Nation. The story's set in the year 3,000,458,000 B.C., a time when salt-eating yeasts are the only living creatures on earth. The tyrannical yeast king's dreamer of a son ventures out of the known "yeastiverse" on a quest and changes the course of the planet's history. It's a production that playwright Kotis describes as "a contrarian, environmentalist anti-musical." Yeast Nation is presented by Ray of Light Theatre, which is known for both classic musical theater and bold contemporary productions, including Carrie the Musical, Jerry Springer: The Opera and The Who's Tommy.