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‘Terminator: The Musical’ is Real and It’s Happening in Austin, Texas

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The Fallout Theater in Austin, Texas is bringing Breanna Bietz’s Terminator: The Musical to the stage, and we’re ready to don our dark shades and leather jackets and be a part of this!

The theater has always been a special place where anything is possible, even for horror fans. From the lighter, comedy-infused Evil Dead: The Musical and Little Shop of Horrors to the more serious Phantom of the Opera and Jekyll and Hyde, horror has been well-represented, especially in the musical space, so it’s really not a total shocker that this new musical exists.

We spoke to Bietz this morning about her show and what fans can expect when they settle in for the show in the intimate 80-set theater.

The first question: Why Terminator?

“It sort of started as a joke,” the playwright explained. “I asked a friend, ‘wouldn’t it be funny if this was a thing?’ We laughed about it but I kept thinking, ‘I should really write that!'”

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With the idea in her mind, the playwright began to write lyrics and lyrics gave way to scenes. Before she knew it, she was sitting down with musicians to transform the simple melodies she’d created into full songs, and the scenes took on a life of their own.

When she went to the University of New Orleans to begin work on her MFA in play-writing, she was knocked out by the risk-taking, DIY spirit of the theater there, and decided to mount a full production of the show in 2015.

Flash forward to the present. Bietz has been working at the Fallout Theater in Austin, Texas where she decided it was time to resurrect the Terminator and mount a brand new production.

Terminator: The Musical is based on the first two films of the franchise, Terminator and T2: Judgement Day, and the playwright came up with interesting ways of telling the two stories together.

“There are three women who are kind of ensemble entities in the play,” she explained. “Think Little Shop of Horrors or a Greek chorus. They die in almost every scene, but they also come right back so they’re a part of the world but also immune to the world.”

The women, collectively known as the Terminatrixes, keep the story moving playing a variety of characters throughout the show. It’s after one of these transitions that T, as the Terminator is called in the musical, gets his big number titled “Programmed to Kill.”

“What happens is that the ensemble women have just died as cops in a police station, and the rip off their costumes and one becomes a scientist, one becomes an EMT, and one becomes a nun,” Bietz said. “Then T sings this song, and it’s kind of serious camp. He’s up in his feelings because all these people are trying to show him affection and he can’t make them understand he’s not capable of that. He’s just there to kill.”

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The Terminatrixes, John Connor, and T in Terminator: The Musical (Photo by Colton Matocha)

Bietz also says that while there’s very little blood in the show, they do play on the fact that T2, in its time, had one of the largest special effects budgets of all time.

“We purposefully play with those big budget moments,” she said, ” in a way that reinforces and also subverts your expectations.”

Terminator: The Musical opens tomorrow night, May 3, 2019, and will run every Friday and Saturday evening through May 25, 2019 at the Fallout Theater in Austin, Texas. Check out the show’s trailer with a snippet of “Programmed to Kill” below!

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“The Lost Boys” – A Classic Film Reimagined as a Musical [Teaser Trailer]

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The iconic 1987 horror-comedy “The Lost Boys” is set for a reimagining, this time as a stage musical. This ambitious project, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Arden, is bringing the vampire classic to the world of musical theatre. The show’s development is spearheaded by an impressive creative team including producers James Carpinello, Marcus Chait, and Patrick Wilson, known for his roles in “The Conjuring” and “Aquaman” films.

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The musical’s book is penned by David Hornsby, notable for his work on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”, and Chris Hoch. Adding to the allure is the music and lyrics by The Rescues, comprised of Kyler England, AG, and Gabriel Mann, with Tony Award nominee Ethan Popp (“Tina: The Tina Turner Musical”) as the Music Supervisor.

The show’s development has reached an exciting phase with an industry presentation set for February 23, 2024. This invitation-only event will showcase the talents of Caissie Levy, known for her role in “Frozen,” as Lucy Emerson, Nathan Levy from “Dear Evan Hansen” as Sam Emerson, and Lorna Courtney from “& Juliet” as Star. This adaptation promises to bring a fresh perspective to the beloved film, which was a significant box office success, earning over $32 million against its production budget.

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Rock Music & Goopy Practical Effects in ‘Destroy All Neighbors’ Trailer

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The heart of rock and roll is still beating in the Shudder original Destroy All Neighbors. Over-the-top practical effects are also alive in this release coming to the platform on January 12. The streamer released the official trailer and it has some pretty big names behind it.

Directed by Josh Forbes the movie stars Jonah Ray Rodrigues, Alex Winter, and Kiran Deol.

Rodrigues plays William Brown, “a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad (Alex Winter). Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William’s accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla. Destroy All Neighbors is a twisted splatter-comedy about a deranged journey of self-discovery full of goopy practical FX, a well-known ensemble cast, and LOTS of blood.”

Take a look at the trailer and let us know what you think!

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A Boy Band Kills Our Favorite Reindeer in “I Think I Killed Rudolph”

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The new movie There’s Something in the Barn seems like a tongue-in-cheek holiday horror movie. It’s like Gremlins but bloodier and with gnomes. Now there is a song on the soundtrack that captures the humor and horror of the movie called I Think I Killed Rudolph.

The ditty is a collab between two Norwegian boy bands: Subwoofer and A1.

Subwoofer was s Eurovision entrant in 2022. A1 is a popular act from the same country. Together they killed poor Rudolph in a hit-and-run. The humorous song is a part of the film which follows a family fulfilling their dream, “of moving back after inheriting a remote cabin in the mountains of Norway.” Of course, the title gives away the rest of the movie and it turns into a home invasion — or — a gnome invasion.

There’s Something in the Barn releases in cinemas and On Demand December 1.

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