Dog Sees God

I'm skipping ahead of some stuff I did that I've yet to blog about b/c I just got back from seeing the Off-Broadway play- Dog Sees God and I just had to ramble on about it.

Dog Sees God is an unauthorized play all about the "Peanuts" gang ten years after the comic strip ends. Since it's unauthorized, they had to take a few liberties with names and stuff, but you could TOTALLY tell who each character was. Charlie Brown (played by Eddie Kaye Thomas- aka "Shitbreak" from the American Pie movies) was named C.B. but wore his trademark yellow shirt with the black stripe; his sister Sally (played by America Ferrera) actually wasn't given a name throughout the play (and is just credited as "C.B.'s sister); Linus was played by Keith Nobbs and was named "Van," although you could tell who he was right away when they make mention of his blanket; Lucy was played by Eliza Dushku (Faith from Buffy and Angel) and she also wasn't named throughout the show (credited only as "Van's sister) but it was obvious who she was, even having one of her "Doctor Is In" moments; Peppermint Patty was played by Kelli Garner and was named "Tricia" which went well with her new valleygirl/slut appearance; Marcy was played by Ari Graynor (who I wasn't familiar with but apparently she played Meadow Soprano's college roomate on the Sopranos) and was actually still named Marcy but she was made blonde to match Tricia (and of course they played up the possible lesbian tendencies of the two); Schroeder was played by Logan Marshall Green (from The O.C. and "Richard Heller" on last season of 24) and he was named Beethoven; and finally Pigpen was played by Ian Somerhalder (Boone from Lost) and he was named Matt (but they made mention of his old nickname, and also make fun of it by the fact he now has OCD and carries a bottle of handsanitizer on his hip).

Me & Ariana had FRONT ROW seats for the play, which was freakin awesome as the actors were just about 2-10 feet from us throughout the entire show.

And as for the show itself. It was just SOOOO freakin good. Some parts were just outright hysterical while others were a bit shocking (like I said, they DO take some liberties, yet they do manage to stay true to the overall sense of the characters). I don't want to spoil the show for anyone, b/c I think you should all try to make an attempt to see it (it's that good). But one part I can mention that had me rolling, was at the scene where Marcy was throwing a party and at one point all the characters start dancing... by doing the "Peanuts dance." It flowed in so well that it caught everyone off-guard and was just so funny.

There were a lot of other homages to the comic strip that they threw in that got good laughs as well. Once again, I can't mention too many as it might spoil some things but if you'd like to know you can IM or e-mail me and I'll let you know.

And finally, after the show Me & Ariana waited around for the cast outside and actually got to meet pretty much all of them and got their autographs too! The only two we didn't get to meet were Logan Marshall-Green and Eliza Dushku (boo!). We waited around for quite awhile to try to meet Eliza (being the big Buffy & Angel geek that I am) but she must have bolted like immediately after the show. So that was a bit of a downer, but we might be tempted to swing by the theater one night in the near future and see if we can catch her then (since it's right near the 14th St-Union Square train station).

But yeah, like I said, it's a show to try and check out and it's fairly inexpensive as well only $39.50, at least til the end of January. I definitely give it two thumbs up.