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The Eleventh Hour! SHARE BUTTON by Gary Wien It’s the end of the world as we know it and a burn- out basement rock and roller, his ex-girlfriend, a rising star astrophysicist, just might have the key to surviving the black hole bearing down on the Earth. That’s the premise behind The Eleventh Hour!, a new sci-fi musi- cal comedy by Rutgers Universi- ty alum David Seamon, which is running at Town Stages in New York City through June 27th. Chronicling the fabled New Brunswick basement music scene during the apocalypse, the play also features a commit- ted performer from Medieval Times, a giant snake, cannibals, a NJ STAGE - ISSUE 47 group of mole people, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. And it takes place with the end of the world just about 12 hours away. The idea behind the play be- gan as a 15 minute musical created for coLAB Arts’ first 48 Hour Musical. In the challenge, teams of playwrights, directors, and musicians have two days to write, rehearse, and then mount an original musical in response INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 29