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press release

May 3, 2012, 11:04 a.m. EDT

"Surf The Musical," a Sizzling New Production Featuring the Songs of The Beach Boys, to Premiere at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino This Summer
Tony Award-Nominated California Girl Kristin Hanggi to Create and Direct the Multi-Million Dollar Musical Extravaganza Written by Burton Young
 

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, May 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- "Surf The Musical" ( www.surfthemusical.com ), a nostalgic journey of sight and sound, brings the glory of The Beach Boys' rock 'n roll hits to center stage at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino this summer.

A series of preview performances will begin the week of June 11, and continue to the Gala Celebrity, VIP, and Media Opening Night Performance Tuesday, July 17, it was announced by Surf Productions LLC Executive Producers Michael Ingram, J. Burton Gold and Skip Klintworth.

Fresh off the heels of the worldwide success of her hit musical, "Rock Of Ages," Broadway's hottest young Tony Award-nominated director, Kristin Hanggi, is now set to launch her second Rock Extravaganza with "Surf The Musical," a magical spectacle sure to delight the critics and have the audience dancing in the aisles. "We want to capture the essence of what made the music great," said Hanggi.

Music-lovers of all ages will revel in the onstage sparkle of the big waves, as "Surf The Musical" places the genius of The Beach Boys' music front and center. A fabulous company of sun-tanned dancers and singers will rock the audience with the legendary hit songs of America's band, as they tell a carefree story of good vibrations set in the nostalgic, happy times of the 1960s' Southern California beach community.

Hanggi has put together an amazing state-of-the-art dream team of Broadway's top backstage talents, who will light up the showroom at Planet Hollywood with a modern, technologically eye-popping production. This multi-talented array includes set designer Beowulf Boritt ("The Scottsboro Boys"), lighting designer Howell Binkley ("Jersey Boys," "Memphis"), costume designer Gregory Gale ("Arcadia," "The Wedding Singer," "Urinetown"), Grammy Award-winning Music Producer Frank Filipetti, and Music Director Ed Hamilton ("Priscilla Queen of the Desert," "Promises Promises").

Utilizing cutting-edge, innovative technology from projection design wizard Darrel Maloney (the genius behind the high-paced media of "American Idiot"), and celebratory choreography from RJ Durell and Nick Florez (Michael Jackson's "Immortal," Katy Perry's "California Girls" World Tour, Madonna's "Confessions" Tour), "Surf The Musical" will rock the Las Vegas strip.

"Surf The Musical" promises to be Las Vegas' hottest new musical extravaganza, as audiences are transported into the magic of the early 1960s and the sweet sounds of summer enhanced by such memorable Beach Boys hits as California Girls, Help Me, Rhonda, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun, God Only Knows, Wouldn't It Be Nice, and many, many more.

"Surf The Musical" performs nightly (dark Thursdays) at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. Show times are 7:00 p.m. except Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. with additional 4:30 p.m. performances on Sundays and 9:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Tickets are priced at $158.40, $114.40, $92.40 and $70.40 including taxes and fees and can be purchased in person at the Planet Hollywood Showroom Box Office, online at www.surfthemusical.com and www.ticketmaster.com or by phone at (800) 745-3000.

I wonder if this a dry-run for the movie project based on BB tunes or something separate.

"a magical spectacle sure to delight the critics and have the audience dancing in the aisles...."

Shoot me now.

Can you review this? ;D

Gimme a sec...

NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I don't think this will make any impression. So much money, promotion and work was put into "Viva Elvis" and see what happened. These type of shows had their run of success but that's over for a few years now. My two cents for whatever it's worth

This exact idea already failed very badly a few years back in NY, right? Here's the Wikipedia entry:
Good Vibrations is a Broadway jukebox musical featuring the music of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys. It opened February 2, 2005, at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre and ran for 94 performances before closing on April 24, 2005.[1] The musical follows the tale of three high school friends who want to escape their small New England town and drive to California.

"and blood to clean up after every show...."

I'll be there!


Wait... no I won't.

oh no : ( this sounds pretty ghastly. i've had the misfortune of seeing "Rock of Ages" in the West End, and if this is anything like that then... may God help us all.

Can you imagine how awful this will be

Yep - "Good Vibrations - the Musical" springs to mind as the title.  It was gone so fast I don't recall though.

Let's see -- musical based on BB songs or the actual Beach Boys live in concert? No contest!

 :-D Really all that needs to be said.

I can't see it succeeding when it's at the same property as "Peepshow" with ex-Playmate Holly Madison.  It's too much competition for ticket money, especially at the prices they're asking.  It's a different audience they're trying to attract, but the presence of "Peepshow" and the type of signs they likely have around the hotel to advertise that show (R-rated topless strip show, which also features singers belting out renditions of oldies) is not going to encourage the family-type audience they want to attract.  I'm guessing it will bomb big time, even if it's not as awful as people suspect it will be.  Though I'm sure it's awful.

Yep.  Ran for two months in 2005 and vanished forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Vibrations_%28musical%29

It looks like this show is only scheduled for two months.  It also appears it may be sharing the same theater with Peepshow and starts two hours before that show, so it has to run 90 minutes or less.  There's no cast list so it can't be they have even minor people anyone has ever heard of.

So....when is the Dennis Wilson movie coming out?

Jeez you guys! Went to Jersey Boys a few weeks back and it was great. This show could be the start of something big because.....


...No, you're right. I smell turd bigtime!!! ;)

Wasn't there a Beach Boys themed restaurant planned for that hotel or another one?  It could be tied into that.  I haven't been to Vegas in ten years, never liked the town or the mega-hotels/casinos.  I'm not sure this would make anyone want to make a special trip just to see the show.  The Beach Boys don't exactly have the same type of following as the Beatles or Elvis, who have Cirque shows devoted to them.  People will go to those just to see the acrobats and special effects.

Website

http://www.surfthemusical.com/

Check out the cast with some of the character names. ;D

Rhonda....check
Caroline...check

Tanner, Wedge, Mitch, Doogie, Rip! :p

You guys are all missing the main point here:


Sun-tans, see? Ere in Yorkshire they're a mark of wealth, success and good taste - not everyone can afford a fortnight in Torromolinos, you know.

I think we should have a class outing.

"Surf City" vanished even faster back in the 80s. I don't think it made it out of previews.

No need for extravangant hols anymore when you can buy sun-tans in bottles now, just don't stack them next to the Guiness (like my late Granny did)

Wonderful… but I hope it weren't the lotion what did it?

Adrian Zmed is in the cast? He must be the star attraction.  I guess they couldn't get Eddie Mekka to do the old guy part. 

What we all really want to know is wlll the film include 'Hey Little Tomboy' and 'I Wanna Pick You Up', sung by the creepy uncle to the kids he's babysitting before they're rescued by the Pied Piper and taken on a Steamboat to Pallisades Park?

BTW is this the musical Stamos was planning ?

I was under the impression Stamos was planning a movie musical, not this monstrosity

the jukebox musical fad has got to end.

Sounds horrifying. How about "Love You" the musical featuring depressed cokeheads as they scrounge the venue floor for the roach someone dropped. Seriously, the whole "Surf" bullshit that the mindless public has forever associated with the BB's is disgusting. Why won't they attempt to play some deep cuts and not harp on the paradise island nonsense, should of known.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I think the other stage show had a "Marcella."

"SHOOT ME NOW: THE MUSICAL featuring the songs of Phil Spector"

In part because the Beach Boys themselves ALWAYS end up pushing that image on the public.

One night of the tour they look cool. The next Bruce is wearing an ultra bad shirt.

TWGMTR sounds pretty good, and then we hear what Spring Vacation is all about.

I love most of the early stuff as much as the later stuff, but let's not kid ourselves, they have only themselves to blame. And with this last chance of an album coming out the fact that ANYONE among anybody's camp would allow the lyrics to SV appear on the record, tells you all you need to know.

Yeah, I do (do I?) remember the cast of that earlier musical appeared on a morning show, was it the Today show? And do I remember Mike and Bruce there with them? It's been awhile, I can't remember. But this BB's musical idea has been around so long, I don't know how much more they could re-jigger to get one which has a successful run.

There are some successes - Jersey Boys being the most obvious, and Green Day also staged one and as far as I know it made money. People who saw both of them liked them.

6 Degrees Of The Beach Boys trivia note here:

Adrian Zmed was rookie officer Romano on the TV cop show TJ Hooker with Shatner. And, as we know, The Beach Boys made a guest appearance on that show in an episode where people were robbing the box offices and ticket windows of the cash during the concerts. I think Carl announced from the stage that TJ Hooker was an "old friend" of the band.

Classic 80's TV, I was a fan. Heather Locklear.

Wow. This is one of those cotton-wooly hazy blurry-lens memories that one carries through one's life but can't get a hold of... If not one of my earliest memories period, it's certainly my earliest Beach Boys-related memory. I kept guessing the TV show was CHiPs, but repeated trawls through episode guides left me frustrated. Now I know the truth. (Damn, why did I not think to just ask this board the question all this time? Duh.)

Oh, and obviously, YES to Heather Locklear. Give me some Heather and/or Randi Oakes in a uniform! Sweet childhood memories come of age right here on this board.

when i read the title of this thread  my first thought..."just shoot me"... i see i am not the only one with that opinion. :)

That may have been the "in" that Adrian had to get the part. A vague BB connection.  They had to get some kind of name that people might recognize, even barely.  This looks so bad, with characters named Rip and Doogie.  I read that one of the producers has said they're hoping for a year's run, at least.  Ticket sales are only through August so they're covering themselves in case it bombs.  Which it should. 

IIRC only Carl made a guest appearance. The other Beach Boys video was taken from the Washington '80 (?) concert

Can I propose a meet-up of us smileysmiler mockers in Vegas on June 11 2013 if the musical is still running?

I will get in contact with Mike Love and arrange a suitable number of used hats for us to dine on while watching the show! ;D


edit.

Still some GV Musical clips on Youtube for those interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCHtcQ-Tkbg&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv60fObmHQE&feature=channel&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCHtcQ-Tkbg&feature=relmfu

Can I be in this?

Very cool! This episode came back to me as well a few years ago, whenever A&E was running the TJ Hooker series, I guess before the DVD's came out. I came home really late on night, couldn't sleep, and started going through the channels - and there was the TJ Hooker-Beach Boys episode! I couldn't believe it, it was also a memory-nostalgia trigger for me because I watched that show every week back in the day. It was neat to see it again, especially with the Beach Boys connection.

So when the name Adrian Zmed was mentioned in yet another Beach Boys related thing, it definitely was more than coincidence.

But I'm thinking the touring, reunited Beach Boys still have time to invite Heather Locklear on stage for the California Girls bikini routine.... :-D

This sounds staggeringly appalling! We Will Rock You, Mama Mia, etc may be massively popular - they're also dreadful. This will only do the Beach Boys reputation as a serious pop/rock band damage. Fingers crossed it flops instantly and disappears without trace.

I'm sure it will be exactly as successful as the Monkees musical that started last month. Or the film of Sgt Pepper.

Just a shame that the BBs musical Sean Macreavy was trying to do a decade or so ago never happened. That could have actually been good.

Yeah man, you bring the steaks.

Preview of "Surf The Music" musical:

http://youtu.be/k7opyZUvmvw
 (http://youtu.be/k7opyZUvmvw)

No comments from me.

words can't...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM2zESNWPu0&feature=relmfu

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