Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God to Play Off-B'way's Century Center
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is an unauthorized parody of the Charlie Brown comic characters. Set approximately 10 years after the events in the 50-year-running comic strip, Dog Sees God begins with Snoopy's death, after which things for the introspective "CB" go downhill. Still trying to understand life's darker meanings, still plagued with his endless identity crisis, CB talks to his gang of friends to find answers to his many questions.
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead was a hit at last year's Fringe where it was directed by Susan Lovell. It extended its run at the Soho Playhouse after the festival was over. The cast featured Michael Gladis, Bridget Barkan, Karen Diconcetto, Tate Ellington, Benjamin Schrader, Jay Sullivan, Melissa Picarello and Stelianie Tekmitchov. In his Broadway.com Review of that production, Eric Grode wrote: "Bert V. Royal's gleefully naughty and borderline brilliant Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead does for "Peanuts" what Avenue Q did for Sesame Street. By fast-forwarding a decade or so into the lives of Charlie Brown, Linus and all the rest, he has refracted a childhood classic through his generation's experiences and made it his own… Dog Sees God is a very crude, very funny, wonderful piece of writing, and one can only hope audiences will be allowed to experience it long after the Fringe Festival has ended."