Dear Friends,
At last the time has come to reveal to you our Master Plan. BEWARE!
Those with weak hearts should log off lest they be terrified by the
twisted genius of our schemes! Also pregnant women and the elderly
should consider reading only certain sentences. Do not mix with other
blogs. Do not operate heavy machinery while reading this blog. You must
be this tall to read. ‘Kay?
It is time for us to change the face of Show Business as we know it.
You know the old adage, “It’s Show Business – not Show Friends”? Well
now it’s Show Friends. We did that. To Show Business. To show Show
Business we mean business. (Also, there are now other businesses like
it.)
ONE WEEK ONLY! AN INTERNET MINISERIES EVENT!
"Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog" will be streamed, LIVE (that part’s
not true), FREE (sadly, that part is) right on Drhorrible.com, in
mid-July. Specifically:
ACT ONE (Wheee!) will go up Tuesday July 15th.
ACT TWO (OMG!) will go up Thursday July 17th.
ACT THREE (Denouement!) will go up Saturday July 19th.
All acts will stay up until midnight Sunday July 20th. Then they will
vanish into the night, like a phantom (but not THE Phantom – that’s
still playing. Like, everywhere.)
And now to answers a few Frequently (soon to be) Asked Questions:
1) Why, Joss? Why? Why now, why free, why us?
Once upon a time, all the writers in the forest got very mad with the
Forest Kings and declared a work-stoppage. The forest creatures were
all sad; the mushrooms did not dance, the elderberries gave no juice
for the festival wines, and the Teamsters were kinda pissed. (They were
very polite about it, though.) During this work-stoppage, many writers
tried to form partnerships for outside funding to create new work that
circumvented the Forest King system.
Frustrated with the lack of movement on that front, I finally decided
to do something very ambitious, very exciting, very mid-life-crisisy.
Aided only by everyone I had worked with, was related to or had ever
met, I single-handedly created this unique little epic. A supervillain
musical, of which, as we all know, there are far too few.
The idea was to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To
turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment
specifically for the internet. To show how much could be done with very
little. To show the world there is another way. To give the public (and
in particular you guys) something for all your support and patience.
And to make a lot of silly jokes. Actually, that sentence probably
should have come first.
If you're a blogger - go blog about it! Tell your friends! Tell your parents! Share the banners and make sure to head on over to Facebook and join the Dr. Horrible group and start some kind of fight. Everyone likes fights. We can all stand around and watch you fight and then cheer you on. Hey, come on, if I called you a name you'd fight me right? I'm soft and lumpy. Go ahead...beat me up.
Or just go tell everyone you know about Dr. Horrible!
