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"a glorious salute to the great American musical, with the same satiric air and sexy style as The Producers and the same nostalgic feel as Little Shop of Horrors"
-- Orange County Register

"Science doesn't get much more fictionalized than in the silly sci-fi musical The Brain From Planet X."
-- Los Angeles Times

"A funnier script and premise you’ll never see. The songs rock!"
-- What The Butler Saw

"The Brain From Planet X is a delight from beginning to end, fast moving and constantly fun. Writer/director Bruce Kimmel has lovingly mined every cliché for maximum laughs, and keeps his excellent company moving at locomotive speed. See it – or risk annihilation from the planet!"
-- Blade Magazine

"Straight out of the B-movie genre of that same time period, The Brain from Planet X definitely pays tribute to those movies in a way that is refreshing, witty, smart, and funny."
-- EDGE Los Angeles

"Its sensibility is pleasantly goofy and tongue-in-cheek, and its sense of humor is self-deprecating, ridiculing not only 1950s sci-fi flicks great and small but the musical theatre genre as well. Its characters know they're in a show and don't mind letting us in on the joke."
-- Back Stage West

Top Ten Cast Albums of 2007
-- Talkin' Broadway.com

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Orange County Premiere

The Brain From Planet X
by David Wechter & Bruce Kimmel
Directed by Bruce Kimmel
Musical Direction by Bill Strongin
Choreography by Adam Cates

 

They didn't come 20 million miles just to say "hello"

 

May 3 - Jun. 8
Fri. 8pm, Sat. 2pm & 8pm; Sun. 2pm

This show is presented as part of
The Festival of New American Musicals.

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This show is also a proud participant in
The Imagination Celebration.

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$35 Premium Seating
$30 General, $27 Seniors/ Students/ Military with I.D.
Group and Youth Rush Tickets Available.

SPECIAL PERFORMANCES:
May 3 at 8pm: $45 OPENING GALA performance.
May 1 & 2 at 8pm: $25 PREVIEW performance (includes post-show talkback)

Synopsis

SEE... a musical so hilarious that it sold out theaters from coast to coast!
SEE... the first show told in "FEEL-O-RAMA"!
SEE... an all-knowing, all-singing, all-dancing giant brain!
... really, what more could you want from a night on the town?

A rip-roaring musical send-up of bad 50s sci-fi movies, The Brain From Planet X tells the story of an alien invasion circa 1958. When an ill-intentioned band of interplanetary travelers arrive on Earth with a plan to take over the world, an all-too regular, nuclear family is forced to defend the human race from will-bending extinction. Can YOU withstand the power of the Brain from Planet X?!

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Creative Team
  • Book : David Wechter and Bruce Kimmel
  • Music and Lyrics : Bruce Kimmel
  • Director : Bruce Kimmel
  • Musical Director : Bill Strongin*
  • Choreographer : Adam Cates
  • Set Designer : Masako Tobaru*
  • Lighting Designer : KC Wilkerson
  • Sound Designers : Dave Mickey and Mitchell Kohen*
  • Costume Designer : deb Millison
  • Dramaturg : Jonathan Josephson*
  • Stage Manager : Courtny Greenough*
  • Assistant Stage Manager : Rosalynn Nguyen
Performers (in order of appearance)
  • Narrator/Professor Leder : Michael Irish*
  • Fred : Bob Simpson*
  • Joyce : Allison Appleby
  • Donna : Shannon Cudd
  • Rod : Dimas Diaz*
  • General Mills : Warren Draper*
  • Zubrick : Daniel Berlin
  • Yoni : Emily Clark
  • The Brain : Mark Rothman
  • Ensemble :
    • Cody Anderson
    • Jamie Lee Baker
    • Marlana Filannino
    • Dan Flapper
    • Patrick Kelly
    • Jenna Romano
  • Rod Understudy : Bryan Barton*
  • General Mills Understudy : Richard Comeau
* Chance Theater Company Member

The opening gala for this production was generously catered by La Casa Garcia.