OPENING TOMORROW NIGHT

JURASSIC PARQ: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL OPENS TOMORROW NIGHT!
7pm at The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa

Everyone who attends the show is invited to the after party at Dempsey's, 61 Second Ave between e. 3rd and e. 4th! Can't wait to see everyone there.

Tonight is a monumental evening. Because it is the eve of the monumental opening night performance. Which is the most monumental event involving dinosaurs to happen since the ice age destroyed them. BE THERE!

A Response To A Fan

We, the Jurassic Parq writers, have come under some scrutiny this week. Please read this comment from fan Doc Nein from www.jurassicparkiv.org

“Here I shall summon the words of Ian Malcolm.

"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could do this, you didn't stop to think if you should."

That said, you've got a number of embarrassing errors on your website that prove you simply shouldn't be doing this.

We'll begin with that interview about "Casting the role of Morgan Freeman." Funny, I don't think he's in Jurassic Park. Perhaps you're thinking of Samuel L. Jackson?

Next is your reference to the "raptor poison contact lenses" Really? Have you guys even seen the movie? I'll take that as a No, since you also reference "that white haired science man" who is not a scientist at all, but a really zany billionaire. And his name is John Hammond. I knew that when I was eight.

Raptors don't spit venom, dilophosauruses do.

When I heard that there'd be a Jurassic Park musical, I thought it would be a joke; when I read about Jurassic Parq's synopsis (really, the Q is necessary?) I REALLY thought it was a joke.

The dinosaurs didn't switch sexes and have a resulting gender crisis. They bred and devoured things, so that life could continue in its inevitably vicious cycle; that's the point of the movie, that life will find a way, by whatever means necessary. Don't turn the one franchise I hold sacred into a vehicle for some annoying political agenda. Hell, I'm gay, but I don't expect my dinosaurs to be.

My dinosaurs eat people. They don't sing.”

Wow. We are shocked, saddened, and impassioned by this comment. We’d like to thank DocNein for reminding us why we are telling this story: TO BRING THE TRUTH TO LIGHT. We will not shy away from our Destiny, and on opening night this Friday at 7pm, the Truth of Jurassic ParQ will be revealed.

Behind the Scenes with Conor and Jeff

Behind the Scenes with Xander McKnight

Opening Night Ticket Offer

Hello Jurassic ParQ Fans,

Our OPENING NIGHT approaches with haste. Friday, August 20th at 7pm!

Today we have a special ticket offer for all of our avid blog readers...

If you buy a ticket for opening night, we will transport everyone in the audience, via time machine, to the Jurassic Era to have a cocktail party with the real dinosaurs on which the characters in the play are based.

THAT'S RIGHT! Destiny has gifted us this technology so that we may have the greatest opening night party. Ever.

So buy your tickets now at: www.fringenyc.org


The Ellen Stewart Theatre at LA MaMa
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003

Friday 8/20 at 7 pm
Saturday 8/21 at 12 pm
Sunday 8/22 at 6:15 pm
Wednesday 8/25 at 7:45 pm
Friday 8/27 at 4:00 pm

Interview with Jeremy Kingsworth

A behind the scenes look at actor Doreen McGonnagal. You want to watch this.

Early Jurassic Parq Musings

Hello World,

Here are some early musings about Jurassic Parq. We are in awe of the intuition and pure genius that our fans have expressed. We've provided some of our favorite quotes with responses below:

"Jurassic Parq, the musical? What next? Alien on Ice? hahaha, sorry that was kinda lame ;D"

- Metriacanthosaurus on August 01, 2010, 07:56:22 AM

Thanks Metriacanthosaurus for the brilliant idea! Alien on Ice? How has destiny not yet imparted this mission upon us? We're looking for an ice rink that will accept a workshop production, premiering next spring. Please email all suggestions to alienonicetheicecapadebroadwaymusical@gmail.com

"lol yeah it cool but even if i could i would want to see a musical. i guess the raptors are just men dressed as sparkly lizards :-\ "

- evolution_rex on August 01, 2010, 09:11:23 PM

Wow evolution_rex! How did you guess that not only are the costumes sparkly, but we are inaccurately portraying dinosaurs as lizards? Care to join our production team?

Find these comments and more at:

http://jurassicparkiv.org/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=169.0

A Writing Exercise

As a very serious and important character development writing exercise, writer Emma has placed herself in the shoes of a dinosaur to express her frustration with the blatant plagiarism of "Jurassic ParK". Please learn from & enjoy thoroughly:

Crunch crunch crunch grorblew arrrggggchchh. Oh excuse me, I didn’t see you there. I was so thoroughly enjoying my dinner. It being the first of August, a holiday around our parts (seventy-millionth anniversary of scales) I treated myself to some Spielberg with a dollup of sour cream.

Oh don’t worry, I wouldn’t touch the real thing. But after the films came and went, the producers shipped all excess merchandise our way. A trifling token of gratitude intended to quell our hunger for the royalties that are our dino-due. We were after all, the main attraction. I mean when is the last time someone went to see a movie because of Sam Neill? Exactly. So on special occasions we head to the wine cellar (who else would use it now? take that white-haired science man!), where we keep what’s left of the more undesirable Jurassic memorabilia—raptor poison contact lens solution, live mosquitoes, miniature electric fences (functioning!), pre-destroyed public toilets, and cardboard cutouts of the cast and crew from premiers American, European, and Japanese. So when special occasions arise, it is a delight of ours to set our yellowed teeth to some Goldbloum gizzard with a side of crisp Crichton.

But it is a delicacy that is hard to swallow, a bitter reminder of the retched way in which our creed was so maligned by that franchise of falsities. I lie awake at night (or stand, rather, we dinosaurs are too big to lie), aching for the moment when we at last have a chance to reveal the truth.

The world must know who we really are, must see us as we see each other, as friends and as companions, as responsible members of society, and until we get that chance I will from this day on pour my rage into this keyboard and--

Oops. Gotta go. Just remembered I only have six fingers.

Photo Game!

Let's play a game! See if you can spot the difference between these two photos:

If you guessed that the first one is a picture of the cast and the second one is a picture of some dinosaurs, you are right!