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THE VIDEO GAMES Adds Additional Performance Dates at the Elektra Theatre

By: Feb. 27, 2017
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MB Stage Productions has just announced extended performances of THE VIDEO GAMES at the Elektra Theatre (300 W 43rd St, NY, NY). Added show dates are April 13th at 7:00pm and May 13th at 7:00pm. Tickets are available at thevideogamesplay.com, ovationtix at 866-411-8111 or at the theatre box office 30 minutes before a performance. For more information about the show contact info@mbstage.com.

THE VIDEO GAMES is an audience interactive comedy with loads of stage combat that places popular video games characters against one another in a Hunger Games esque battle to the death. The audience gets to vote for their favorite characters using their smartphones, interacting with actors and live voting during the show. THE VIDEO GAMES, was written and directed by: Jared Tyrel Pixler and David Evan Stolworthy. Fight choreography by Matt Franta and Brandon Pugmire.

Show description:

What if the fate of your favorite video game characters rested in your hands? Take control as they take the stage in THE VIDEO GAMES! A parody of the popular book/movie series The Hunger Games. The tributes participating in the Battle to the Death have been substituted for video game characters from all the popular video game franchises. Princess Zelda, Queen of The Console, is celebrating the 64th Annual Video Games and needs the audience's assistance (through social media) to ensure that this year's Games are bigger, badder, and bloodier than the year before! By voting for their favorite characters, the audience will to alter the course of events throughout the performance. It's a different show every night as iconic pixelated heroes and villains, such as Donkey Kong, Lara Croft, the Master Chief, and more, compete to win the coveted title of Player One.




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