MB Stage Productions announces the "Version Update" cast of THE VIDEO GAMES, Los Angeles. The show will return to the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017 with updated scripts, costumes, music and more DLC!
"With some new and returning cast members the show has undergone some major changes that align it with the work we did in New York, opening the show off-Broadway." Said, Jared Pixler one of the co-creators and directors of the show. The new cast will feature, new scenes, options and storylines that previously have not been performed in Los Angeles. "When the show opened off-Broadway last year, we had to rethink some major parts of the show, and how we present it. We want to bring that same experience back to LA where the show started and back to the Fringe." Said, David Stolworthy (co-creator and director).
The cast is as follows (returning cast members noted with an *):
Henry Steelhammer
Scorpion
Master Chief
Princess Peach
Reid Honeywell*
Mega Man
Commander Shepard
Commander Shepard
Bennett Cousins*
Samus Aran
Lara Croft
Pikachu
Donkey Kong
Link
Yuna
Sheik
Mario
Zelda
Nicoletta Brunelli
Jigglypuff
Yuna/Jigglypuff/Shepard
Shepard/Peach/Lara - SWING
Marc Leclerc*
Universal Male SWING
Mega Man/Link/Pikachu
Anthony Kiyoshi LePage*
Scorp./Link
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.
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.
Performance dates, tickets and information available at www.thevideogamesplay.com.
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