DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-ALONG BLOG Gets Live Production, 7/16-30

In association with Silk Road Productions, Producer/Director Andy Lowe and Chinese Pirate Productions will present a live stage adaptation of the 3 episode musical web-series created by writer/director Joss Whedon. Sixteen (16) performances of the fan driven adaptation will be held at the 10th Avenue Theatre at 930 10th Avenue in Downtown San Diego, Ca 92101 from July 16th - 30th, 2011 to coincide with the 2011 annual International Comic Book Convention.

The show, also adapted by Lowe, will feature musical arrangements and orchestrations by local San Diego Musical Director Brian Hammond, sets by Scenic Designer David Weiner (700 Sundays - La Jolla Playhouse, Broadway, & National Tour), lighting design by Chris Rynne (How the Grinch Stole Christmas - the Old Globe Theatre), costumes by Jannifer Mah, and introducing choreographer Karen Li.

The Production (which will go into casting in March) will be performed in repertory with "Gam3rs: the Play," the hit one man show by USD/Globe grad, Brian Bielawski and co-written/ directed by Walter G. Meyer. The two productions will be the centerpiece of the second annual Gam3rCon, a new event aiming to celebrate pop culture as it relates to the tradition of interactive entertainment from the earliest traditions of dice and cards, to the latest innovations in digital interactive experiences. (www.Gam3rstheplay.com)

DR. HORRIBLE & JOSS WHEDON
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 2008 musical tragicomedy miniseries in three acts, produced exclusively for Internet distribution. Filmed and set in Los Angeles, the show tells the story of Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris), an aspiring super villain; Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion), his nemesis; and Penny (Felicia Day), their mutual love interest.

Writer/director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, Dollhouse), his brothers Zack Whedon (a television writer) and Jed Whedon (a composer), and actress Maurissa Tancharoen, wrote the musical during the 2008 WGA writers' strike. The idea was to create something small and inexpensive, yet professionally done, in a way that would circumvent the issues that were being protested during the strike.

On October 31, 2008, Time magazine named it #15 in Time's Top 50 Inventions of 2008.It also won the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Online Sensation" and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. Dr. Horrible won seven 2009 Streamy Awards for web television in Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series, Best Directing for a Comedy Web Series, Best Writing for a Comedy Web Series, Best Male Actor in a Comedy Web Series (Harris), Best Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Music. It also won a 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs.

CHINESE PIRATE PRODUCTIONS & ANDY LOWE
Based in San Diego California, Chinese Pirate Productions seeks to build partnerships, in order to better tell stories with artistic projects that speak to and for a community. Stories, myth and folklore are what bind communities together; from the oral histories of our ancestors, to the contemporary myths found in superhero epics, stories speak to The Common values and universal truths upon which communities are built, and experiences are shared.

Winner of the California Young Playwrights Contest in 1994, Andy Lowe co-founded the San Diego Asian American Repertory Theatre where he was the company's Producing Artistic Director for ten years ('95-'05) and over thirty-five full stage productions. In 2001 Andy helped inaugurate San Diego's first Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Festival ('01-'03). He has been a recipient of an official mayoral commendation, and was recognized as one of the "Top 30 most influential Asian Americans Under the age of 30" (Political Circus Magazine '01). Producer, Director and developer of many original projects including the adaptation of the award winning book Dear Miss Breed by Joanne Oppenheim at the Lyceum Theatre in 2007.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" name, literary material and characters and musical compositions used by permission from Time Science Blood Club, LLC. ©2008 Time Science Blood Club, LLC.

 

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