The Man Who Was Too Loud catalogues the years 1969 to 1973, when a quiet, delicate clean nosed kid named JoJo hitched to NYC from Boston, saw the Velvet Underground, and decided to start a rock band of his own. Although destined to be shrouded forever in the backdrop of history, his band, The Modern Lovers, would inspire everyone from the Violent Femmes to the Sex Pistols to join a little movement called "PUNK."

The Man Who Was Too Loud is a one-act (fictionalized) rock show in characteristic Theater-less Theatre style with a heavy emphasis on cinematic sound and visuals, but with the energy that can only be harnessed in live theatre.

Besides being the minstrel playing the guitar throughout the Farrelly Brothers film There's Something About Mary, Jonathan Richman (whom the musical is based on) was one of the precursor to Punk, and his story and his music is the silver lining on the dirty edges of the movement that changed the world. Based on his experiences in the early seventies, The Man Who Was Too Loud opens the dusty vinyl jacket of history.

Josh Frank will be joined on-stage by the local musical anti-hero Stinky del Negro (acting as musical director), Adam Kahan on bass (Invincible Czars, Summer Breeze), and Phillip White on drums (Brown Whörnet, Adult Rodeo). Rebecca Cannon of (Sincola) fame, will play "Warhol Superstar", Joey Hood is "Joey Harvard” and Alvin Cantu is "The Disk Jockey". Audiences can expect a dramatically unveiled hidden history of the sixties told through a colorful multimedia extravaganza (Projection Design by Damon Marlier) set to a raucous rock-and-roll soundtrack. Using what has become his trademark, Mr. Frank will take a cinematic-style approach for this 'Live Rock Documentary' that will literally join the screen and stage: a treat for the film lover who yearns for something, bold, different and new.

Josh Frank. founder of Mind Over Money Theatre Festival (MOMFEST) and the Theater-less Theatre Co., left Austin three years ago to pursue his career as a writer/director/producer in New York City. After associate producing for the Nederlanders on Love, Janis and Dream A Little Dream (The Mamas and the Papas musical) he will present his own first off Broadway show, Teenager Of The Year, an alternative rock musical about the life and times of the cult band the Pixies that will premiere in New York City in 2004.  Following the success of his other Austin based productions - Night of the Werewolf, Golem and Herzog’s Stroszek, he returns to Austin to workshop his next Off-Broadway show.