After completing 25+ shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer, Douglas Widick’s Paperclip received great response. Now with a live backing band, Paperclip is bringing three final performances to the iconic SoHo Playhouse in NYC.
The writer and star of the musical, Douglas Widick, cites his appearance on a 1999 episode of The Rosie O’Donnell Show (where he beat Rosie at Harry Potter trivia) as the start of his entertainment career. In the following years he played in pop-punk outfit Easton which played in the 2006 Warped Tour alongside such acts as Mayday Parade, attended improv classes at UCB, and toured internationally with hip-hop improv ensemble North Coast.
In Paperclip, Microsoft Word’s writing assistant, Clippy, has seen the future—and it is bleak. Determined to prevent the impending techno-dystopia brought about by artificial intelligence, Clippy travels back in time to warn humanity in a thrilling, time-traveling adventure through the internet. In Douglas’s words, “the show is about choice, self-sabotage, and how we engage with a rapidly changing world. Clippy’s journey to stop AI is couched in a story about him redeeming his reputation as the world’s least beloved digital icon.”
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