Really Really Leary

Thanks to Bruce, this new production play put a smile on my face too.

How would we know? Maybe it is an alternate reality. But some believe it to be an alternate reality musical comedy scheduled for production at the height of this fall's election insanity.

To paraphrase the infamous Twen Cen President Bill Clinton, what "reality" is depends on your definition of what "is" is.

In other words, each person’s reality is a chemically mediated, preconceptually-biased, culturally conditioned experience and interpretation of selectively filtered perception. In the case of Really Leary, we’ll go straight to the precise words of Tim Leary himself, uttered during the waning days of his first incarnation: "Everybody gets the Tim Leary they deserve."

We think you deserve a highly entertaining and imaginatively-staged spoof of politics, the media, cheesy science fiction, and the fabric of reality itself. In our world (and yours should you attend or otherwise share in the hallucination), Really Leary is a staged alternative reality, more commonly known as a rock musical comedy. Really Leary tells the altogether plausible story of the presidential election of 2052, which pits two cryogenically-thawed 20th century icons (the fully-restored Walt Disney and the head-only restored Timothy Leary) against one another. The campaign unfolds on the Disney Asteroid (DisneyRoid for short), an off-world corporate tax haven controlled by the feisty, God-fearin’ Purlie Gates, daughter of Bill Gates’s second clone (an unfortunate Beta version, plagued by troublesome code errors reminiscent of early Windows operating systems). You’ll follow the campaign from defrost to debate, with the victor decided in a dramatic showdown as the candidates go head-to-head on the interactive presidential game show, Choose Your Chief.

Posted by paul at February 8, 2005 11:50 PM