Team StarKid has released their cast list for Twisted along with some exciting production details. Read more to find out who’s joining the show!
Today Eric Kahn Gale, Nick Lang, and Brian Holdon took to the official Team StarKid YouTube page to release some new information about their highly anticipated production of Twisted:
Twisted Cast Announcement
Twisted Offical Cast List:
Exciting news all around for the Team StarKid fan base. Many returning cast members will be joining the show – along with some fresh faces as well. It’s particularly exciting to see Robert Manion among the cast list. The ‘fan turned friend’ was introduced to the cast through a contest that was held by the group to create songs for A Very Potter Senior Year. Robert’s musical submission was one of the lucky few to have his song chosen for the production – but unfortunately fan submissions were cut at the last minute do to the length of the show and tight time constrictions. The two sides still met at LeakyCon last summer when the show debuted.
Also of note, Dylan Saunders, Joe Walker, and Lauren Lopez will also be starring in Judas Redux this summer as well. It’ll be a quick turn around for the actors involved with both plays.
In an exclusive interview held earlier with Matt and Nick Lang, the two shared where the Twisted musical blossomed from.
Matt, at LeakyCon, you said you’d been telling the guys this story about how Jafar is really the victim in Aladdin, that Aladdin is this lazy, able-bodied man who won’t bother working for a living. Is that what inspired Twisted?
Matt: It was this old joke – when I was a kid, I loved the movie but I just hated the character Aladdin. And when it got near the end of the movie, like once Jafar sent Aladdin to the ends of the earth, I’d turn the movie off and say “Over! Done. Great movie!” So yeah, it’s this big giant long story joke. I was telling it to Darren after AVPSY – that night I sat him down and told it for, like, an hour, and we went “Ahahaha!” and laughed about it.
And then it was just on my mind after the third play. In the months or weeks to follow, we were trying to decide what the next show was going to be, so we said, “Why don’t we do that? Why don’t we make that Jafar joke into a musical?” Because I was sitting around thinking “Man, I like Harry Potter” – and all these other musical ideas weren’t working, because they weren’t musicals about stuff we liked at all.
And I’m just like, “Huh. Do we have jokes? Yeah, we have that Jafar joke – and I love Disney… Duh. Why don’t we just make a musical about Disney?” Kind of poking fun at Disney. And yeah, it’s from the point of view of Jafar, and it’s a little bit making fun of Wicked as well. It’s like Wicked, only it’s a way less elegant version of the Wicked idea.