We're celebrating Mel Brooks' 100th birthday by bringing one of his long overlooked musicals to Philly Fringe!

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Featuring a book by comic legend, Mel Brooks and Man of La Mancha's Joe Darion, who also provided the lyrics alongside a "cool" jazz score by George Kleinsinger, this bare bones, bizarre musical takes us to a typewriter as cockroach, poet, philosopher, and moralist, archy (who's too small to hold down the shift key), tries hopelessly to bring alley cat, mehitabel, into a respectable home as a housecat.

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archy & mehitabel is presented through special arrangement with Music Theater International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

"archy & mehitabel" - Produced by Jayson Borenstein for the 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival