This attracted the attention of an off-Broadway theatre company, Wings Theatre, which staged Repo in NY during the summer of 2005. Following this run, we went back to the drawing board again, and then mounted a second version of Repo’s stage play in 2004 at W. This was at Hollywood’s John Raitt Theatre. In 2002 we felt that we were ready to rent a theatre and debut Repo as a full-length play. During this time we work-shopped the music and story, keeping what worked and cutting what didn’t. In 2001 Darren Smith and I assembled a small group of actors and musicians, and began performing Repo as 45-minute sets at clubs. One of our 10-minute operas, “The Necromerchant’s Debt” – the story of a futuristic grave-robber – is the tale that evolved into “Repo! The Genetic Opera”. As “The Gallery”, Darren was a sort of 1-man-band, playing all of the music, and I was a 1-man-theatre troupe, acting out all of the parts. We would write and play what we called 10-minute operas – short stories put to music – at rock clubs and coffee shops throughout L.A.
It started in 1999 when Darren Smith, Repo’s co-writer, and I began performing as a duo called “The Gallery”. Repo! is a project that’s been in the works for almost 10 years now. CAN YOU ELABORATE A BIT ABOUT THE EARLY HISTORY OF “REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA”? Who would ever have thought that Nivek Ogre (Skinny Puppy) would appear in a musical with Sarah Brightman (star of several Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals) AND Paris Hilton? In an email interview, co-creator/ co-writer / cast member Terrance Zdunich tolds us a bit about “Repo! The Genetic Opera” and its transition from stage to screen. Based on a stage musical, the sci-fi/horror tale of a future where organs are harvested for profit has one of the most eclectic casts ever assembled.
Repo the genetic opera play movie#
After being pushed back from an April release, the highly anticipated movie musical “Repo! The Genetic Opera” will finally be unleashed on November 7, 2008.
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