EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 3/15/22 at 9:53am

From today’s Briefing: Visceral Entertainment has announced that it will launch a national tour this summer for Emojiland, the 2020 Off-Broadway musical. A virtual and inclusive casting call for the tour is underway, with submissions for all roles open to all performers regardless race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, or experience level. Interested performers can find details and submission instructions at emojiland.comthrough March 27.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/15/22 at 12:13pm

Will be cute for the kiddos. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 3/15/22 at 12:44pm

This wasn't great art, but it was a ton of fun and the cast was superb (if overqualified) Off-Bway right before Covid.

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/15/22 at 1:04pm

I liked the weird mix of silliness and darkness, and the first theatre pastiche of Radiohead I’ve ever heard.

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 3/16/22 at 3:59am

It’s Non-Union. 

[Rakesh Natarajan]

Posted: 5/31/22 at 10:57pm

It seems like the tour has been canceled or, at the very least, postponed/rescheduled. Tickets are no longer available at the Bushnell (Hartford, their second stop) or the Kimmel Center (Philadelphia, their fourth stop). The Boch Center (Boston, their third stop) posted this message on their website: "Please be advised that all  performances of Emojiland - The Musical, originally scheduled for the Shubert Theatre on June 14-19, have been cancelled." 

[Moreski93]

Posted: 5/31/22 at 11:37pm

♫ Sometimes the poo gets real. ♫
-Ann Harada as Pile of Poo 2020

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 12:25am

None of the stops were on season subscription packages, right? What a horrendous way for the show to close. Who was producing? Michael Cohl? I feel so bad for everyone involved.

Updated On: 6/1/22 at 12:25 AM

[RippedMan]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 3:29am

Makes me sad for the performers. i'm gonna guess "everybody's talking about jamie" isn't going out as well? 

[felixleiter]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 9:10am

The whole thing is cancelled apparently.  

 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 2:17pm

How terrible. Feel really bad for the cast and crew.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 2:20pm

This was a lot of fun off-Bway. Cannot imagine it playing well with a less seasoned cast of clowns...might even be best as a high school production as opposed to a non-union tour. What distributor on earth would pay for a performance by a non-union cast?

iirc this did not sell Off-Bway, so I don't know why they thought it would sell to the masses across the country.

Updated On: 6/1/22 at 02:20 PM

[Scarlet Leigh]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 2:28pm

The producers have just made a statement (at last) to confirm the tour is cancelled and they will be doing a one night only performance of the show and filming for later release.




What a mess. I feel for the cast and crew in this one that got tangled up in an ill conceived attempt at a tour.

Updated On: 6/1/22 at 02:28 PM

[pmensky]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 2:35pm

They were going to the Boch Center? Don’t they have about 3600 seats? Those other venues listed above are pretty large, too. What were they thinking?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 2:39pm

The authors of the show were previously married and got divorced before the off-Bway production...she played the lead, he used to play the other lead but left the show before it ran at New 42. But he's the only one giving a statement here? Weird!

[JBradshaw]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 2:41pm

They’re still airing commercials for the tour in Philadelphia. I’m in Philly now and saw two on tv this morning. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 6/2/22 at 10:41am

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "iirc this did not sell Off-Bway, so I don't know why they thought it would sell to the masses across the country."

Apparently the production received SVOG money and they had to spend it or give it back to the government. So, they planned on spending it on the tour. I guess filming this allows them to still spend that money.

[Kad]

Posted: 6/2/22 at 10:42am

Someone’s using this to launder money, right? 

[seaweedjstubbs]

Posted: 6/2/22 at 11:01am

This seemed very rushed from the start. I’ve never seen a national tour - non-equity or equity - hold auditions so close to the start date of the show. Seems like the whole thing was poorly planned. My heart goes out to the cast and crew.