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Welcome to the home of Walmartopia and Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn , the creative people behind it.

After an 8-month stint in New York City, the wife-and-husband team is excited to be back home in Madison, Wisconsin. Their upcoming project is a benefit for the Bartell Theatre in Madison, which opens January 9 th, 2009. It's titled Blasphemy! An Unholy Trinity of Musicals.

Their Off-Broadway hit musical Walmartopia will be seen next spring at the Landless Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. The dystopian comedy about Wal-Mart taking over the world was first produced by Mercury Players in 2004 at the Bartell in Madison. In 2006, it received much acclaim at the New York International Fringe Festival and the Fringe Encore Series. The musical played Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York from September through December, 2007.

Before Walmartopia, Rohn and Capellaro created Temp Slave, a satirical tribute to America's disposable workers. The couple has also created 10 short musicals on subjects ranging from fundamentalist Christians to plus-sized male erotic dancers. They have formed a number of bands that perform in Madison. Their biggest collaboration is raising twin boys, Julian and Leo, and five pets.

Catherine Capellaro has written librettos for ten musicals with Andrew Rohn. She has worked as a freelance writer and editor for many newspapers and magazines and an editor for the Progressive Media Project and Rethinking Schools. She has also been a producer, reporter and anchor for WORT community radio and Wisconsin Public Radio. She is a trumpeter and vocalist with the disco band VO5 and creates children's music with the Madgadders Band.

Andrew Rohn is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who performs vocals and keyboards with the disco/funk sensation V05 and drums for indie rockers Sunshine for the Blind. His eclectic background includes playing in a Javanese Gamelan, drumming in a Led Zeppelin cover band, and in the bluegrass-funk ensemble The Merkins. He composes for TV, radio, internet, and musical theater. His clients include The Onion, Twee Dee Productions, DNA studios, Story Me This Productions, and Apple computer, among others.