| Black Friday | |
|---|---|
| A New Horror-Comedy Musical | |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Black_Friday_promotional_image.jpg) Promotional image featuring a Tickle-Me-Wiggly | |
| Music | Jeff Blim |
| Lyrics | Jeff Blim |
| Book | Nick Lang Matt Lang |
| Basis | Characters from The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals |
| Premiere | October 31, 2019: The Hudson Mainstage Theatre, Los Angeles |
Black Friday is a comedy-horror musical with music and lyrics by Jeff Blim and a book by Matt and Nick Lang.[1] It is the twelfth staged show produced by StarKid Productions and takes place in the same setting as their previous musical The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, though in an alternate universe where the events of the previous musical never happened. The show ran from October 31, 2019 to December 8, 2019 at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre in Los Angeles, California, directed by Nick Lang. A live recording of the musical was uploaded on YouTube on February 29, 2020 and sold on DVD. A cast recording was released on February 29, 2020 on Apple Music and their website.[2][3]
Funding for the show was done through Kickstarter, similarly to StarKid's most recent shows. The project raised US$547,439 through 11,704 backers out of its $155,000 goal.[4][5]
Black Friday was intended to feature the entire cast of The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals in new roles alongside new cast members. However, soon after she was announced as Lex, Mariah Rose Faith was cast in the national tour of Mean Girls, making her the only cast member of the prior musical not to appear in Black Friday. Angela Giarratana was then cast as Faith's replacement. Black Friday is also notable for the return of Dylan Saunders, a founding member of StarKid, who had not appeared since Twisted in 2013. Kendall Nicole Yakshe, who plays Hannah/Tim, is the first minor to be featured in one of Starkid's productions.[6]
A third musical in the Hatchetfield series entitled Nerdy Prudes Must Die was created and performed in 2023 with several Black Friday cast and crew members returning. It is not a direct sequel.
- ^ "Black Friday". StarKid Productions. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
- ^ "Team Starkid Celebrate 10 Years With Homecoming Reunion Event!". April 4, 2019.
- ^ "Black Friday - Original Cast Recording". StarKid Productions Official Webstore. 29 February 2020.
- ^ "StarKid's 10niversary Celebration!". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
- ^ Wild, Stephi. "STARRY Original Concept Album to Be Re-Released With New Songs". BroadwayWorld.com.
- ^ "Black Friday". StarKid Productions.