Daniel Franzese Joins Cast of Dog Sees God
by Broadway Staff • Sep 8, 2004
Mean Girls' Daniel Franzese, who was announced to star in the Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead at the Fringe Festival but withdrew to film a movie, is stepping into the show for its September 8 through September 19 Soho Playhouse run. Tate Ellington, who performed in the Fringe in place of Frazese, was spotted by a casting agent during the show and is flying to Los Angeles to do a test for a WB pilot.
Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is an unauthorized parody of the Charlie Brown comic characters. In the play, audience members find out what happens when America's favorite blockhead discovers that his beloved beagle has rabies. A missing pen-pal, an abused pianist, a pyromaniac ex-girlfriend, two drunk cheerleaders, a homophobic quarterback, a burned-out Buddhist and a drama-queen sister are all contributing factors to the teen angst of America's most hapless kid.
Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is an unauthorized parody of the Charlie Brown comic characters. In the play, audience members find out what happens when America's favorite blockhead discovers that his beloved beagle has rabies. A missing pen-pal, an abused pianist, a pyromaniac ex-girlfriend, two drunk cheerleaders, a homophobic quarterback, a burned-out Buddhist and a drama-queen sister are all contributing factors to the teen angst of America's most hapless kid.
The show, directed by Susan Lovell, features Franzese, Michael Gladis, Bridget Barkan, Karen Diconcetto, Benjamin Schrader, Jay Sullivan, Melissa Picarello and Stelianie Tekmitchov. In his Broadway.com Review, critic Eric Grode called Dog Sees God, "gleefully naughty and borderline brilliant... a very crude, very funny, wonderful piece of writing." It won a FringeNYC Award for Best Overall Production.