Photo Coverage: FAMILY GUY SINGS! at Carnegie Hall 2008/11/26

Photo Coverage: FAMILY GUY SINGS! at Carnegie Hall

Wednesday, November 26, 2008; Posted: 09:11 PM - by Peter James Zielinski

Family Guy Sings!, a new stage show featuring the entire cast of Seth MacFarlane's Emmy Award-winning animated television series "Family Guy," brought the house down at New York's legendary Carnegie Hall on Monday, November 24th & Tuesday, November 25th. BroadwayWorld made sure we were front and center for one of the funniest evenings in ages!

This unique, unpredictable and unforgettable musical experience featured the superstar cast singing live with a 40-piece orchestra conducted by "Family Guy" composer Walter Murphy. Family Guy Sings! also featured a special preview of the eagerly anticipated "Family Guy" spin-off, "The Cleveland Show."

Family Guy Sings! sprang forth from the wildly popular Family Guy Live! performances. First conceived and presented at 2004's Just For Laughs - the Montreal International Comedy Festival, Family Guy Live! was performed on stage in Los Angeles and New York in Spring 2005 in sold-out shows. This unprecedented event returned to Just For Laughs in 2007 and performed yet again in front of sold-out crowds. Family Guy Live! took Chicago by storm when it played the Chicago Theatre in September 2007.

Since its debut in 1999, the Emmy-nominated animated series Family Guy has attracted an impressively loyal following of devoted fans and has sold over 16 million combined DVD units, making it the second- largest-selling TV series ever. The show follows the adventures of lovable oaf PETER GRIFFIN (Seth MacFarlane) and his hilariously odd family of middle-class New Englanders. LOIS (Alex Borstein) is Peter's loving wife, a former Miss Teen Rhode Island who rules the roost but is one step away from a nervous breakdown. Then there are their kids: frumpy, 16-year-old MEG (Mila Kunis), the family's punching bag; 13-year-old CHRIS (Seth Green), a kid who can't make sense of the opposite sex, much less the evil monkey hiding in his closet, and 1-year-old STEWIE (MacFarlane), a diabolically clever baby whose heterosexuality is hanging by a thread.

Rounding out the Griffin household is BRIAN (MacFarlane), the family dog, a member of Mensa with a penchant for dry martinis and dumb blondes. And then there are the adored characters CLEVELAND, HERBERT, THE GREASED UP DEAF GUY and other favorites (Mike Henry).

Family Guy is a 20th Century Fox Television production. Seth MacFarlane is creator/executive producer, David A. Goodman is executive producer/show-runner and Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, and Steve Callaghan are executive producers. A division of News Corp, 20th Century Fox Television is a leading supplier of entertainment programming domestically and around the world.

For more information, please visit www.hahaha.com/familyguy and www.familyguy.com/live.

Photos by Peter James Zielinski

Seth MacFarlane