Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
#1Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Posted: 12/27/10 at 6:04pm
I just finished reading Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. I absolutely LOVED this play. I was not sure if this was off-Broadway at one point or just a regional show. I can't see it doing so great on Broadway but I think it should get an Off-Broadway run. Has anyone ever read this show? Share your opinion!
~Anthony~
Updated On: 12/27/10 at 06:04 PM
#2Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Posted: 12/27/10 at 8:36pm
You can search the message board here for previous threads where that show was discussed at length.
Yes, it did have a successful off-Broadway run and is frequently produced regionally, especially in colleges/universities.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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#2Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Posted: 12/27/10 at 8:40pm
Very funny play
Our company held the UK Premiere of the show in 2008 and 2009 and are taking the show to London next year.
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#3Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Posted: 12/27/10 at 11:30pmI saw it when it ran off-Broadway. Frankly, I wasnt impressed. Were it not for the hook of taking the characters and advancing their ages, it really doesnt have a whole lot else to say. It had a cute set design, but the performances and the writing were... to be kind... thin.
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#4Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Posted: 12/28/10 at 12:40am
I agree with SeanMartin -- it's a gimmick show that really doesn't have much past that. I always felt that it meant to be more than that but that it missed its mark.
Enjoyable, yes, but nothing more.
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#5Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Posted: 12/28/10 at 1:14am
I actually performed in a production of this show about a month ago as Beethoven- I really love the play. I do understand the criticism that the writing is a bit thin, but I think it can be a great play when done well. When I performed it, it was right around the news of the gay teen suicides happening across the country, and I think a lot of the themes present in the show resonated strongly because of it.
I'm biased, since I loved the experience, but I'm definitely a fan.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#6Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Posted: 12/28/10 at 6:56am
I saw the Off-Broadway run at the now-defunct Century Center in the East Village. I actually quite liked it. A very clever, even poignant little play. The production had a really interesting cast: Eddie Kaye Thomas; America Ferrara (pre-UGLY BETTY); Eliza Dushku; Logan Marshall-Green; Kelli Garner; Ari Graynor; Ian Somerholder; and Keith Nobbs. The entire cast was very good, but Dushku, as the Lucy stand-in, was particularly excellent and surprisingly stageworthy. Bert V. Royal went on to write EASY A.
I can't imagine the show returning to Off-Broadway or making a Broadway debut. The original production opened and closed pretty quickly, despite playing a small theatre and having a cast with several recognizable names.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
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#7Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Posted: 12/28/10 at 8:25am
I think the show has quite a lot to say if you really look at it, i don't think a lot of people could past the Charlie Brown kids swearing and having sex.
The version we did was a revised version by Bert himself that he let us do which had the Beethoven/Van's Sister scene back in that was taken out for the release of the rights.
I loved directing the show (and also playing Beethoven) and we walked away with some rave reviews and then got a trasnfer to a bigger venue which was amazing. Can't wait to take the show to London
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#8Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Posted: 12/28/10 at 9:47amI saw it with America Ferrara as AC noted. I remember nothing about it at all.
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#9Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Posted: 12/28/10 at 2:17pm
I was not impressed with Dog Sees God at all. I feel like a lot of my friends absolutely adore this show and I do not understand what draws them to it. I loved the peanuts comics and YAGMCB, but I felt DSG:CTB is just tacky.... Its like Rugrats--Rugrats is amazing; All Grown Up... not so much.
I feel the same with Mr. Marmalade. I know so many people who are obsessed with it, and like DSG, I find it to be even more tacky and tasteless. I compare both these shows because I think they both come from a good idea- just executed poorly. IMHO.
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