Dance Dance Revolution Gets Musical Treament Off Broadway

Dance Dance Revolution is about to achieve a world first on behalf of global game culture. On December 3, at the Ohio Theater in Manhattan, the Japanese rhythm game will debut as an avant garde musical. The production is being mounted by Les Freres Corbusier, whose self-stated mission is to create "aggressively visceral theater combining historical revisionism, multimedia excess, found texts, sophomoric humor and rigorous academic research. The companay has achieved wide-ranging acclaim for its cybernetic take on Ibsen's "Hedda Gobler," as well as "Hell House," a satire of the gory pro-life haunted houses staged by evangelical churches, and "A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant," which skewers, well, that one's obvious.

Les Freres describes their videogame musical debut as a futuristic as follows. Chances are you've never seen a blurb like this in your aunt Sadie's Playbill:

Les Freres transforms the Ohio Theater into a fully immersive, bombed-out discothèque as it fuses unmerciful Japanese rave music with deeply regrettable sophomoric comedy in the futuristic dance spectacular, Dance Dance Revolution.

Riffing on fizzy dance musicals like 'Flashdance' and death sport movies such as 'Rollerball,' Dance Dance Revolution is set in an Orwellian society where dance is illegal. A group of local street toughs harbor no hope of overthrowing the fascistic no-fun government — until a mysterious dance prophet named Moonbeam Funk arrives.

That actually sounds eerily close to a super-secret pitch for Gears of War 3 we almost got our hands on.

Tickets to the revolution, and the promise of free beer, can be had here.