That's so "[title of show]"!

Thank goodness -- now I have the opportunity to buy a new cast recording CD since I wore out the grooves on the one I bought in July from the kids playing it over and over and over. Now, I'm not sure that's technically possible, but you get the idea. Oh yeah, and my mom heard it playing in our car and now she really wants a copy! She heard "Die, Vampire, Die" and fell in love with the show!

Now they have understudies too! I wonder what it would be like watching the show with the understudies...very surreal for the cast I imagine! Congrats guys!

According to this article in Playbill:

Off-Broadway can't get enough of the self-professed theatre nerds in [title of show] as the musical about the making of a musical extends at the Vineyard Theatre through Oct. 1.

The Vineyard plays home once more to the popular musical comedy which began its commercial run July 14 and opened July 20 following a run at the venue earlier this year. Kevin McCollum, Laura Camien and the Vineyard Theatre produce the 8-week limited engagement which was originally scheduled through Sept. 9 and now plays three more weeks.

Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen, creators and stars, pen a musical which follows a writing team's "race to write and submit a show to the theatre festival" weeks before the deadline. The show was born out of just that experience: Bowen and Bell's race to complete an entry for the 2004 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Featuring a bevy of quips about theatre and musical fanaticism (including the duo's own), the meta-musical (as in real life) enlists two of the creators' friends, Susan Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff, to appear with them.

Tony Award nominee Michael Berresse (The Light in the Piazza, Kiss Me Kate) leads the original creative team as the director-choreographer. Larry Pressgrove (Cats, Children's Letters To God) provides musical arrangements and direction. Bowen (The Who's Tommy) and Bell (Oh, Boy!) star with Blackwell (The Heidi Chronicles) and Blickenstaff (The Full Monty). Courtney Balan and Benjamin Howes serve as understudies.

The original cast album of the show was released on Ghostlight Records -- a division of Sh-K-Boom Records. Joel Moss and Kurt Deustch produce the CD which features Bell, Blackwell, Blickenstaff and Bowen, with musical direction and arrangements by Larry Pressgrove.

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