EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#1
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#3
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.
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#4
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.
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#6
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."
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#7
Posted: 5/31/22 at 11:37pm
♫ Sometimes the poo gets real. ♫
-Ann Harada as Pile of Poo 2020
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#8
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#9
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?
Understudy Joined: 11/10/12
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#10
Posted: 6/1/22 at 9:10am
The whole thing is cancelled apparently.
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#11
Posted: 6/1/22 at 2:17pm
How terrible. Feel really bad for the cast and crew.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#12
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.
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#13
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.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/11
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#14
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#15
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!
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#16
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.
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#17
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.
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#18
Posted: 6/2/22 at 10:42am
Someone’s using this to launder money, right?
Broadway Star Joined: 3/21/07
EMOJILAND musical will tour summer 2022#19
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.
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