Team StarKid have released a video trailer for 1Night 2Last 3Ever, the group’s all-new boy-band-themed sketch comedy show.
News of Team StarKid’s next production came before the dust had settled on the empty stage of Twisted, the group’s latest parody musical. 1Night 2Last 3Ever will be a sketch comedy show, not a theater production, and will take place at Second City’s UP Comedy Club for five Sundays starting September 15.
The trailer for 1Night 2Last 3Ever features cast members Joe Walker, Jeff Blim and Pat Rourke as fictional boy band 3Ever. The video features some extreme ’90s pop tropes, including outfits, choreography, soft focus, and the mandatory music-video shots of the natural world, like waterfalls and butterflies.
1Night 2Last 3Ever is the group’s follow-up to Airport For Birds, their first sketch comedy venture at Second City. Airport For Birds enjoyed an extended run this past spring, and a DVD of that production is set to be available at 1Night 2Last 3Ever.
1Night 2Last 3Ever will feature a cast of seven – Jeff Blim, Denise Donovan, Lauren Lopez, Pat Rourke, Meredith Stepien, Daniel Strauss and Joe Walker, with direction by Brian Holden. The show’s original music will be created by Nick Gage, the composer of the synth-heavy score to Holy Musical B@man!, and if the sample in the video clip above is anything to go by, Gage’s talents are perfectly suited to crafting some ’90s pop nostalgia.
The show is currently set to run for five performances – September 15, September 29, October 6, October 13 and October 27. Tickets are on sale now at UP Comedy Club with VIP packages available.
With last night’s ‘N SYNC reunion as the current hot topic of pop culture, Team StarKid have picked themselves an instant hit by choosing to base their new comedy show around a ’90s style boy band. Oddly enough, this is the second time in a row that StarKid has created a show around a subject that has coincidentally come back into the public eye – when we spoke to Nick and Matt Lang back in April, we discussed their surprise at finding out that the official Aladdin musical was going into production on Broadway, right as they were preparing to announce Twisted.
We’re now dreaming up fantasies of things StarKid could create parody versions of in order to coax the real deal back to reality! Any ideas? (This writer’s thinking a Firefly musical. Joe Walker as Jayne Cobb. Make it happen, guys.)
What are your thoughts on 3Ever? Alternately, what franchise would you like StarKid to revive next, with their apparently crazy psychic parody resuscitation power?