Exclusive Video! Lysistrata Jones’ Creators Cheer Their Talented Cast and Artistic Inspiration, ‘Mr. Comedy Pants’

Clearly Lysistrata Jones, about a college cheerleader who organizes her friends in a sex strike until their basketball player boyfriends break a 30-year losing streak, has a lot going for it in the funny department, but it doesn’t hurt that it has one hell of a classical comedy origin. After all, it’s based on the Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, or “Mr. Comedy Pants,” as bookwriter Douglas Carter Beane likes to call him. In an exclusive video Beane, composer Lewis Flinn and writer/director Dan Knechtges talk about hitting the musical theater sweet spot, cheer on their cast of Broadway newcomers and celebrate a return to a show model that, “believe it or not, was the bread and butter of Broadway.” Check it out!