Summer Nuts, Mickey Fisher's second film, will be of interest to both musical theatre and softball fans; the plot interweaves the two worlds.Produced by Ohio-based Leo's Pride Entertainment and Indiana-based Digital Realm Productions, the independent film will begin shooting in Warsaw, Indiana in late August. Summer Nuts "tells the story of a group of actors from a small town summer stock theater called The Shining Summer Stars Barbecue and Theatre. Faced with plummeting ticket sales, the theater makes a desperate attempt to regain its audience. One way they plan to do this is by producing an original show, geared to their core audience of Bible-Belter seniors. Thus, The Old Testament musical is born. The other tactic is to curry community favor by participating in popular events, such as the town's most popular sport, Men's Softball. They turn to Jerry, the technical director, to assemble a credible team of men to participate. What follows is the most disastrous season in the history of the sport," according to a press article.
Fisher has enlisted a number of Broadway performers for the film--Matt Bogart (Miss Saigon, Aida), Scott Hunt (Rent) and Stephen Colella (Les Miserables). In fact, Summer Nuts is partly based on the true story of a Cincinatti summer when he began to play softball at the urging of Colella, who formed the team from a pool of actors and technicians at the Cincinatti Conservatory of Music's summer rep program, Hot Summer Nights. Jonathan Clark and Dominic Bogart (Rent National Tour) will also act in the film; they previously appeared in Fisher's first film, The King of Iron Town, profits from which helped to finance Summer Nuts. Fisher's The King of Iron Town was picked up earlier this year for home video distribution by Vanguard Cinema, and should be available in stores all over the country by late September, the film previously won 3rd Place Best Feature at The Appalachian Film Festival. Fisher began his career as a musical theater actor following his four-year term at CCM. He moved to New York City in 1997, and began producing his original work with a company he co-founded, The Liilaa Company. Their latest piece, a beat poetry/rock musical called Subway Train played at The 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. Fisher placed 6th in The Writer's Digest National Playwriting Competition, in the Top 10% of The Nicholl Fellowship, and Top 250 Scripts in Project Greenlight 2.
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