SILENCE! The Musical

Silence! The Musical
Original Off-Broadway poster
Music	Jon and Al Kaplan
Lyrics	Jon and Al Kaplan
Book	Hunter Bell
Basis	Original Screenplay "Silence! The Musical" by Jon and Al Kaplan, based on The Silence of the Lambs
Productions	2005 Off-Off-Broadway 2009 London Fringe 2011 Off-Broadway 2012 Los Angeles 2016 Chicago 2017 San Francisco
Awards	2005 New York Fringe Festival Outstanding Musical Award 2011 Time Magazine's Top 10 Plays and Musicals 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Award - Best Musical 2012 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle - Score, Lead Performance, Choreography

Silence! The Musical is an award-winning 2005 musical created by Jon and Al Kaplan as a parody of the 1991 Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs.

The project began in 2003 as an internet musical made up of nine songs that retold the entire story. The audio tracks became popular to the extent that a live show was conceived and staged. Six additional songs were written by the Kaplans, and the book was written by Hunter Bell, based on the original screenplay Silence! The Musical, also by the Kaplans.

The stage musical premiered in the Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York, on August 12, 2005 as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, and showed until 28 August 2005. The production was directed by Christopher Gattelli.

Silence! had its European premiere in London on October 19, 2009, showing for two weeks at the Barons Court Theatre. The run was directed by David Phipps-Davis. Christopher Gattelli's production subsequently transferred to the Above The Stag Theatre, running from 19 January - 28 February 2010. Directed and choreographed by Gattelli, this production featured new material written for its London outing.

An off-Broadway mounting of the show opened June 24-September 26, 2011 at Theatre 80, directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. It transferred to the 9th Space Theatre at PS 122 on October 24, 2011.

The musical reopened on January 18, 2013 at the Elektra Theatre, in New York City's Times Square, through August 13.

Jobsite Theater in Tampa, FL, presented the southeastern US premiere of the show in the Jaeb Theater at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts Oct. 14 - Nov. 15, 2015.

Corn Productions presented the Chicago premiere at the Cornservatory July 8 - Aug. 13, 2016.