EdFringe Talk: 30 Minute Musicals: Top Gun

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“You can have all the time in the world, you’re never quite ready.”

WHO: Brooke Seguin

WHAT: “30 Minute Musicals, direct from Hollywood, reports for duty with their fan favourite musical parody of quintessential homoerotic 80s film, Top Gun. Don’t miss singing and dancing fighter pilots flying high in the sky, steaming up the locker room and getting sweaty on the beach!”

WHERE: Assembly Checkpoint – Assembly Checkpoint (Venue 322) 

WHEN: 19:50 (55 min)

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Is this your first time to Edinburgh?

This is our second time at Fringe with 30 Minute Musicals! Though some of our performers, IE Tom Lenk, have been many, many with multiple productions in the past: Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist and Lottie Plachett. Performers love to return to Fringe year after year because it’s so special. There’s such an explosion of art in Edinburgh during fringe! It’s addicting! Even though producing/performing at Fringe is incredibly hard, exhausting work, it all becomes worth it onstage when you have that connection with that audience.

What are the big things you’ve learned since 2022 and have you absorbed any of the lessons yet?

Ha! Well, we initially tried to get back to fringe in 2020, 2021, AND 2022… Some of those years, it was obviously impossible. But, 2022, we just weren’t ready or recovered enough from “pandemic-times” to make it from the US to EdFringe!! What have I learned?? You can have all the time in the world, you’re never quite ready. Fringe is always a leap into the unknown and, no matter what, is always THRILLING!

Tell us about your show.

I am responsible for writing/directing the show. All of our performers: myself, Tom Lenk, Tommy Hobson, Brant Cox, JD Barton, Mark Jude Sullivan, and Nathan Frizzell with our trusty Los Angeles Stage Manager, Stephaine Boltjes, are responsible for production the show at Ed Fringe. The show was originally produced in LA back in 2012 and has undergone many iterations throughout the years. We brought it to Fringe in 2019 as a part of a roulette series where the audience picked the show they’d like to see that evening, between – Top Gun, Jurassic Park, and Die Hard. Jurassic Park won many nights. So, we brought Top Gun back to give the show it’s due.

What should your audience see at the festivals after they’ve seen your show?

I will definitely be seeing “Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson”! Chris is hysterical ALWAYS. I’ve been looking forward to his show. Baby Wants Candy – always great. Also, “Tim Murray is Witches” is a must see. I had the opportunity to catch “Blue” in LA, written by June Carryl, who will also be starring in this production with Assembly, and that show was stellar!!! Very thought provoking and impactful! Can’t wait to see it again here at Fringe. …. and I can never get enough Reuben Kaye. I’m still talking about things I’ve seen at The Kaye Hole years later. Very excited to share a venue with one of my favorites at Fringe!

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