Braintree Native to Star in Ordinary Days: A Modern Musical at the Arsenal in Watertown

The Opposite of People, a new theater company in the greater Boston area, presents Ordinary Days: A Modern Musical, opening this Thursday at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown.

One of musical theatre’s most exciting new composers, Adam Gwon, creates a score of vibrant and memorable songs, capturing with stinging clarity that uneasy moment in youth when doubts begin to cloud hopes for a future of unlimited possibility, and the connections that, knowingly or not, help you find your way. Ordinary Days is a refreshingly honest and funny musical that tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love, a cab, and a lost notebook.

Starring as a male lead in the production is Braintree native, Bobby Zupkofska as Warren.

Zupkofska is a recent graduate of Suffolk University’s Theater program and has appeared in multiple productions including Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda’s Rock Musical adaptation of Midsummer Night as Bottom.

“Since it was my first major role in a college production, it was very challenging, and incredibly fun to do an 11 minute one-man rock opera version of Pyramus & Thisbe featuring an array of musical styles,” he says, “On the completely opposite end of the spectrum I played The Prince in Rodger & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, which was wildly different than what I usually play; it was a great experience playing a part that I wouldn’t typically get cast as.”

Zupkofska fell in love with the simplicity of Ordinary Days.

“In addition to the terrific score, the show also has a wonderful theme of finding beauty in simplicity.” Zupkofska explains, “I feel everyone strives to get the extraordinary things in life (new phone, millions of dollars, etc.), but people really should try to focus on enjoying the ordinary things in life because there is something special about these moments that can’t be bought.”

Throughout the show, Zupkofska’s character, Warren, hands out flyers to passersby imprinted with inspirational messages. These messages, though occasionally kitschy, speak to the characters as they go through their own personal ordeals . In the spirit of Warren, Zupkofska shared a message that spoke to him from the show. For Zupkofska it was, “ For beautiful to happen, the beautiful has got to be seen.”

Ordinary Days runs July 30 - August 1 at 8pm and August 1 - 2 at 2pm at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA.

Tickets are available for all performances through Brown Paper Tickets: http://theoppositeofpeople.brownpapertickets.com or on The Opposite of People’s website: http://theoppositeofpeople.org

The Opposite of People (TOP) is a newly established theater company that is dedicated to bringing accessible, unconventional theater and little known shows to the Boston-area community.