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Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God to Play Off-B'way's Century Center
by Broadway.com Staff

Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, one of the breakout hits of last year's Fringe Festival, is coming off-Broadway. The play, directed by Trip Cullman, is scheduled to begin performances at the Century Center on November 28.

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."

This new production of Dog Sees God is scheduled to officially open off-Broadway on December 15. Casting will be announced shortly.
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Thesps going to the 'Dog'
Thomas, Dushku head to Off B'way

By GORDON COX

A gaggle of young film and TV thesps will flock Off Broadway later this fall, when Eddie Kaye Thomas ("American Pie") and Eliza Dushku ("Bring It On") star in Bert V. Royal's "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead," beginning perfs at the Century Center Nov. 30.

Cast also includes America Ferrara ("Real Women Have Curves"), Logan Marshall Green ("The OC") and Michael Rady ("The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"). Ari Graynor, singled out for raves in "Brooklyn Boy" on Broadway, and Off Broadway regular Keith Nobbs ("Romance") round out the ensemble.

An award-winning hit at the New York Fringe Fest in 2004, "Dog" is an on-the-sly spoof of the "Peanuts" comicstrip in which an angsty teenager named CB has a rabid beagle and a pyromaniac ex.

Trip Cullman directs and Dede Harris produces. Show, capitalized at $850,000, opens Dec. 15.

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Good Grief: Dog Sees God Gets a Starry Young Cast for Off-Broadway

By Ernio Hernandez
07 Oct 2005

Screen stars Eddie Kaye Thomas and Eliza Dushku will star in the upcoming Off-Broadway run of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, the award-winning 2004 FringeNYC take-off of the "Peanuts" characters.

Trip Cullman (The Last Sunday in June) will direct the new run, which begins Nov. 30 at the downtown's Century Center for the Performing Arts, according to a production spokesperson. Opening is Dec. 15.

Thomas ("American Pie," Smelling A Rat) and Dushku ("Bring It On," "Tru Calling") will be featured in a cast that also includes America Ferrara ("Real Women Have Curves"), Ari Graynor ("Mystic River," Brooklyn Boy), Logan Marshall Green ("The O.C.," The Distance From Here), Keith Nobbs ("Phone Booth," Romance) and Michael Rady ("The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants").

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is written by Bert V. Royal. The take-off on the Charles Schulz comic strip "Peanuts" follows the original gang a decade later as their beloved beagle companion dies. A missing pen pal, an abused pianist, a pyromaniac ex-girlfriend, two drunk cheerleaders, a homophobic quarterback, a burnt out Buddhist and a drama queen sister fill the show's ensemble.

The design team for Dog Sees God features David Korins (scenic), Jenny Mannis (costumes), Darron L. West (sound) and Brian MacDevitt (lighting).

Patrick Fugit ("Almost Famous," "Saved!"), Anna Paquin ("The Piano," After Ashley), Michelle Trachtenberg ("Buffy The Vampire Slayer," "Ice Princesses"), Logan Marshall-Green ("The O.C.," The Distance From Here), Alison Pill ("Pieces of April," On the Mountain), John Gallagher Jr. ("Pieces of April," Kimberly Akimbo) and Mark Weber ("The Laramie Project," The Distance From Here) took part in a New York private reading May 9.

Dede Harris — currently represented on Broadway by Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Hairspray — will produce with Sorrell Tomlinson and David Carpenter as associate producers. Other recent credits for Harris include The Pillowman, Shockheaded Peter, Golda's Balcony, The Crucible, Elaine Stritch At Liberty, Metamorphoses, Noises Off, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Music Man, Swing!, The Exonerated and tick, tick...BOOM!

Produced by File 14 Productions at The New York International Fringe Festival in 2004, the palindromically-titled show then continued at its venue under an Off Broadway contract in association with the Soho Playhouse. The work received a Fringe Excellence Award for Overall Production and GLAAD's Media Award for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Production.

The original Fringe cast of Dog Sees God featured Michael Gladis (Fifth of July), Bridget Barkan ("Everyday People"), Karen Diconcetto (UK pop group Daphne and Celeste), Tate Ellington, Benjamin Schrader, Jay Sullivan, Melissa Picarello and Stelianie Tekmitchov. Daniel Franzese, who appeared in the teen centric "Mean Girls," stepped into the role of Van for the original Off-Broadway run.

Tickets to Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead at the Century Center, 111 East 15th Street, will be available through (212) 239-6200.

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Ian Somerhalder — who appeared last season on ABC's "Lost" — joins Eddie Kaye Thomas and Eliza Dushku in the cast of the upcoming Off-Broadway run of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.

Trip Cullman (The Last Sunday in June) will direct the new run of the award winning 2004 FringeNYC take-off of the "Peanuts" characters. Previews begin Dec. 1 towards a Dec. 15 opening at the downtown's Century Center for the Performing Arts.

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is written by Bert V. Royal. The spoof of the Charles Schulz comic strip "Peanuts" follows the original gang a decade later as their beloved beagle companion dies. A missing pen pal, an abused pianist, a pyromaniac ex-girlfriend, two drunk cheerleaders, a homophobic quarterback, a burnt out Buddhist and a drama queen sister fill the show's ensemble.

Somerhalder appeared as Boone, the first major character to be killed, on the first season of TV's "Lost." The actor has also appeared in the films "Rules of Attraction" and the upcoming "Pulse" as well as other TV stints on "Smallville," ""Young Americans," "CSI: Miami," Law & Order: SVU" and "Now and Again."

He joins Thomas ("American Pie," Smelling A Rat) and Dushku ("Bring It On," "Tru Calling") in a cast that also features America Ferrara ("Real Women Have Curves"), Ari Graynor ("Mystic River," Brooklyn Boy), Logan Marshall Green ("The O.C.," The Distance From Here) and Keith Nobbs ("Phone Booth," Romance). Somerhalder replaces the previously announced Michael Rady.

The design team for Dog Sees God features David Korins (scenic), Jenny Mannis (costumes), Darron L. West (sound) and Brian MacDevitt (lighting).

Dede Harris — currently represented on Broadway by Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Hairspray — will produce with Sorrell Tomlinson and David Carpenter as associate producers. Other recent credits for Harris include The Pillowman, Shockheaded Peter, Golda's Balcony, The Crucible, Elaine Stritch At Liberty, Metamorphoses, Noises Off, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Music Man, Swing!, The Exonerated and tick, tick...BOOM!

Produced by File 14 Productions at The New York International Fringe Festival in 2004, the palindromically-titled show then continued at its venue under an Off Broadway contract in association with the Soho Playhouse. The work received a Fringe Excellence Award for Overall Production and GLAAD's Media Award for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Production.

Tickets to Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead at the Century Center, 111 East 15th Street, will be available through (212) 239-6200.