THE VIDEO GAMES Announces 'Version Update' Cast for Hollywood Fringe

MB Stage Productions announces the "Version Update" cast of THE VIDEO GAMES, Los Angeles. The show will return to the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017 with updated scripts, costumes, music and more DLC!

"With some new and returning cast members the show has undergone some major changes that align it with the work we did in New York, opening the show off-Broadway." Said, Jared Pixler one of the co-creators and directors of the show. The new cast will feature, new scenes, options and storylines that previously have not been performed in Los Angeles. "When the show opened off-Broadway last year, we had to rethink some major parts of the show, and how we present it. We want to bring that same experience back to LA where the show started and back to the Fringe." Said, David Stolworthy (co-creator and director).

The cast is as follows (returning cast members noted with an *):

Henry Steelhammer

Scorpion

Drew Curtis*

Master Chief

Lauren Sperling*

Princess Peach

Reid Honeywell*

Mega Man

Mark Whitney*

Commander Shepard

Mel Glickman

Commander Shepard

Bennett Cousins*

Samus Aran

Shae Tomlinson*

Lara Croft

Brandon Bolte

Pikachu

PJ Megaw*

Donkey Kong

Casey Suddeth*

Link

Chloe Madriaga*

Yuna

Sarah Ruttan*

Sheik

Kevin Maphis

Mario

Coco Dean*

Zelda

Nicoletta Brunelli

Jigglypuff

Laurel Coleman

Yuna/Jigglypuff/Shepard

Randahl Brisco

Shepard/Peach/Lara - SWING

Marc Leclerc*

Universal Male SWING

Brandon Derk

Mega Man/Link/Pikachu

Anthony Kiyoshi LePage*

Scorp./Link

THE VIDEO GAMES is an audience interactive comedy with loads of stage combat that places popular video games characters against one another in a Hunger Games esque battle to the death. The audience gets to vote for their favorite characters using their smartphones, interacting with actors and live voting during the show. THE VIDEO GAMES, was written and directed by: Jared Tyrel Pixler and David Evan Stolworthy. Fight choreography by Matt Franta and Brandon Pugmire.

What if the fate of your favorite video game characters rested in your hands? Take control as they take the stage in THE VIDEO GAMES! A parody of the popular book/movie series The Hunger Games. The tributes participating in the Battle to the Death have been substituted for video game characters from all the popular video game franchises. Princess Zelda, Queen of The Console, is celebrating the 64th Annual Video Games and needs the audience's assistance (through social media) to ensure that this year's Games are bigger, badder, and bloodier than the year before! By voting for their favorite characters, the audience will to alter the course of events throughout the performance. It's a different show every night as iconic pixelated heroes and villains, such as Donkey Kong, Lara Croft, the Master Chief, and more, compete to win the coveted title of Player One.

Performance dates, tickets and information available at www.thevideogamesplay.com.