Singfeld! A Musical About Nothing

Singfeld! A Musical About Nothing is an unauthorized musical parody of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, which ran from 1989 to 1998. Four actors play the comic quartet at the center of the series, renamed here as Jerry Singfeld, George Costanza, Elaine Benes and Cosmo Kramer. A fifth performer, billed as Everybody Else in NYC, covers every other New Yorker the friends run into. The action stays in New York City.

The subtitle borrows the nickname that stuck to the original series, a sitcom that finds its jokes in ordinary routines rather than big events. The musical takes that label literally and builds its plot around it.

Bob McSmith and Tobly McSmith wrote the book and lyrics, Billy Recce composed the music, and Marc David Wright directs. The show plays at the Jerry Orbach Theater inside The Theater Center, which announced the production and also handles its box office and licensing. It is an open-ended commercial run, and as of October 2026 no closing date has been set.

The evening turns the creative process into the joke: the characters are busy writing the very kind of show we are watching. Jerry and George decide to put together a Broadway musical, and the first plan is a musical about nothing. Kramer soon joins them at the writing table. As the work goes on, the idea drifts, and the project turns into a show about the Bubble Boy.

Along the way the show restages episodes from the series, among them the master-of-my-domain contest, and tracks the four friends through dating and friendship in the city. Jerry carries an inflatable doll around, a gag about his idea of the perfect girlfriend.

Familiar side characters turn up too, including Frank and Estelle Costanza, J. Peterman, Kenny Bania, Newman, Susan and the Soup Nazi. Some references are renamed on stage: the puffy shirt becomes the poofy shirt, Festivus becomes Schmestivus, and Puddy becomes Pudding.

Billy Recce wrote the music and also did the orchestrations. He is a New York-based composer-lyricist who has won the MAC Award twice, and he wrote music and lyrics for A Musical About Star Wars, which played in Las Vegas and Off-Broadway. Rita Posillico is credited with the arrangements; she has also music-directed two other TV parodies, built on The Office and on Friends.

The score works like the script: it spoofs well-known show tunes, among them Another Hundred People and Hakuna Matata. "The Women" covers the long line of girlfriends Jerry went through on the series and borrows from Seventy-Six Trombones, the march from The Music Man.

The other titles point back to the series. "The Master of their Domain" matches the contest the show restages, and "The Ballad of Bubble Boy" matches the detour the musical-within-the-musical takes. George and Kramer get numbers named for them, "Seasons of George" and "Giddyup: Kramer's Lament." The list also includes "What's the Deal with Musicals?", "Serenity Right Now" and "The Yadda Yadda Song".

The Jerry Orbach Theater is a black box with a three-quarter thrust stage, so the audience sits on three sides of a playing area that measures 27 by 11 feet. The room has its own installed microphone and sound system. The licensing materials describe the set as simple and flexible, which fits a compact room. The staging also includes a chorus of pigeons.

The company is small: five roles played by five actors, backed by a male swing and a female swing.

As of October 2026, James Verderamo plays Jerry Singfeld, C.J. Russo plays George Costanza, Elaina Ragusa plays Elaine Benes, Christian Lamantia plays Cosmo Kramer and Austin Sidito plays Everybody Else in NYC. Jake Kline and Alondra Schuck are the swings. Replacement casting has been announced several times, so check the official site for the latest line-up.

The show had its world premiere Off-Broadway in 2023 at the Jerry Orbach Theater. The production was announced in March 2023 for that spring, previews began in the spring, and the official opening was June 14, 2023. At launch it shared the theater with two other sitcom parodies, one based on The Office and one on Friends, and the three alternated performance days. As of October 2026, the theater presents the Friends parody alongside Singfeld.

The 2023 company was Landon Zwick as Jerry, Jacob Millman as George, Jenna Cormey as Elaine, Matthew Ruehlman as Kramer and Mike Kizner as Everybody Else in NYC. Kizner also played Frank Costanza and J. Peterman, and Millman doubled as Newman.

The run has outlasted its first end date. A February 2024 report put the end of the run at June 2024, and the show kept playing past that point. A June 2026 cast announcement gave the run as continuing through August 31, 2026, and the official FAQ in October 2026 leaves the end open. New Jerrys were announced in June 2025 and November 2025, a new Elaine in June 2026 and a new Everybody Else in NYC in September 2026.

The room itself has a past. The hall was named for Jerry Orbach in 2007, the year a revival of The Fantasticks opened there, and that revival closed in June 2017.