30 Days of NYMF: An Alien Vision

AN ALIEN VISION
by Bruce Kimmel (The Brain from Planet X)

So there I was, happily producing CDs of Broadway musicals and Broadway singers, when I had a vision. Yes, Virginia - I, Bruce Kimmel, had a vision. The last vision I had resulted in my film The First Nudie Musical. In that film I gave the world singing and dancing dildos. "Dancing Dildos" became my biggest hit. Barry Manilow can have "Mandy," Carly Simon can have "You're So Vain," Elvis can have "Heartbreak Hotel," but I've got "Dancing Dildos." And I'm jiggy with it. Where was I? Oh yes, my vision. This time, instead of singing and dancing dildos, I saw a singing and dancing brain.

Thus was born my new musical, The Brain From Planet X, which I wrote with my friend David Wechter (we wrote the original story and script for the Robert Rodriguez film The Faculty, which had no singing and dancing).

The Brain From Planet X is a sci-fi musical, one that has sport with all my favorite bad sci-fi films of the '50s, which include Invaders from Mars, The Brain from Planet Arous, Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Creeping Terror (which features the first monster entirely made out of carpet), and so many other fine works of cinema. I grew up loving those movies, and I love them still, and now through the magic of musical comedy I'm getting to relive them all.

And what a cast we have for our NYMF production – Rob Evan, Amy Bodnar, Barry Pearl, Alet Taylor, Merrill Grant, Cason Murphy, Richard Pruitt, Benjamin Clark, Paul Downs Collaizo and our fantastic ensemble (who play everyone else) – Denise Payne, Erin Webley, Steven Wenslawski, Joe Jackson, Chad Harlow, and Naomi Kakuk.

So we hope all you NYMF people will come see it.  Don't forget, we have an actual singing brain, we have two aliens named Zubrick and Yoni (Yoni being the man-hungry female, and Zubrick being the man-hungry male), we have an all-American family, we have a General, we have an elderly professor, we've got 17 count them, 17 musical numbers, and, best of all, the show is set in the San Fernando Valley in 1958. And all of it presented in the startling new theatrical process Feel-O-Rama!

The Brain From Planet X plays September 20, 21, 25, 26, 28, 30 at The Acorn (on Theatre Row).  Check nymf.org for show times and to purchase tickets.