Vertigo bring Desperately Seeking the Exit to Taurus, 30 July

Manchester based Vertigo Theatre Productions are bringing a new show and its star from New York to Manchester for its UK debut, prior to a 4 week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
 
Writer/Performer Peter Michael Marino presents a comic autopsy on his £4 million West End musical flop Desperately Seeking Susan the Musical in Desperately Seeking he Exit directed by Obie Award winner John Clancy.
 
In 2007, American actor and playwright Peter Michael Marino wrote a huge musical based on the American film Desperately Seeking Susan featuring the music of the American band Blondie. It opened on London’s West End…and closed a month later. WHOOPS! This comic one man show about a collective train wreck fills in the blanks of how the £4 million musical was made and unmade.

From the initial idea, to deals with producers, MGM, Debbie Harry and even Madonna; all the way to thrilling workshops, dangerous previews, scathing reviews, closing night and beyond.
 
Peter Michael Marino is a writer, actor, director and teacher. He received the 2010 and 2011 Backstage Reader’s Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Teacher for his acclaimed Flying Solo classes at The PIT. He also received the Back Stage Bistro Award for his cabaret spoof, Lance Jonathan: More About Me! He is the co-writer of the lesbian pulp homage Hollywood Nurses. He has directed and developed shows with Delilah Dix (Ars Nova, Laurie Beechman Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe), Mark Giordano’s Mad Man (The PIT), Sheila Head’s Head Games (IO West, Ars Nova), and Alicia Levy’s Chickapalooza (The PIT, Ars Nova). As a performer, he appeared in STOMP for five years off-Broadway and on tour, as well as in numerous regional productions and workshops.
 
John Clancy is an Obie Award-winning director, playwright, and a partner in Clancy Productions, an acclaimed international theatrical touring and production company. He is the founding Artistic Director of The Present Company and a founding Artistic Director of The New York International Fringe Festival. He has directed six Scotsman Fringe First winning productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including Americana Absurdum (Brian Parks), Cincinnati (Don Nigro), Horse Country (C.J. Hopkins), screwmachine/eycandy (C.J. Hopkins) and his own Fatboy.  Both Horse Country and Cincinnati went on to win The Best of the Fringe Award at the Adelaide Fringe in 2004. In 2002 he received a Glasgow Herald Angel for excellence in direction at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. John was awarded The New York Magazine Award in 1997 for “creativity, enterprise and vision”.

Vertigo Theatre Productions bring the show to Manchester’s Taurus Bar
for two nights from 30 – 31 July 31st. Tickets will go on sale via
Quaytickets from April 2nd.

View the trailer here.