In the spring of 1989 DeCarlo’s new hip-hop musical “London Cat House” opened at the Broadway Theater. “London Cathouse” explores the underbelly of a brothel in 1770, where prostitutes, druggies, dealers, runaways and street people sing and dance to a new beat.

The show was too lewd, the sound too new, and sadly closed after only seven performances. Drama critic John Lahr of the New Yorker wrote, “What a joke. A hip-hop musical set in the seventeen hundreds will never make a dime on Broadway.