Ever since we got one last “That’s What She Said’s” from Michael Scott fans have been wanting more of The Office. Well say no more because The Office musical is coming to New York this fall! While fans of The Office are no strangers to hearing Michael Scott or Andy Bernard breaking out into song, this will be a refreshing look on your favorite characters of beloved Scranton Paper Company.
It will be opening at New York’s Jerry Orbach Theater on September 20th, 2018 and it comes from the minds of past parodies like Bayside! The Saved by the Bell Musical, Full House! The Musical and the FRIENDS! The Musical Parody. Basically if you are watching a musical and are feeling all the nostalgia feels then Bob and Tobly McSmith are behind it.
SEPTEMBER 20 📝 We're 2 months away from opening night!
Our cast reveal is coming soon… Which Office coworker are you most excited to see on stage? #TheOfficeMusical pic.twitter.com/eSQQCoIALA
— The Office! A Musical Parody (@theofficenyc) July 20, 2018
The musical seems to begin just as the show did according to their website:
“It’s a typical morning at Scranton’s third largest paper company until, for no logical reason, a documentary crew begins filming the lives of the employees of Dunder Mifflin…”
While we haven’t heard who will be playing the iconic Michael Scott role. The other roles have been billed and many actors and actresses will be playing multiple rolls. For example Pam and Erin are played by Taylor Coriell or Jim and Andy are played by Tom McGovern.
I haven’t heard of Michael Santora before but he’s billed on their website to play Dwight and his headshot screams that he’s a beet expert.
If you are a musical and The Office fan this will probably seem like heaven to you. Just read the titles of some of the original songs that are slated to be performed. According to Broadway.Com:
“The Office! A Musical Parody features an original score by Assaf Gleizner, including songs titled “Scranton: The Electric City,” “Why Is There a Camera Crew?,” “Welcome to Diversity Day,” “That’s What She Said!,” “Did I Stutter?” and more. Casting and an exact first-performance date will be announced at a later time.”
The show is running from September 20th to December 31st. So if you needed a reason to get to New York you have it now!
If you need a little brush up on Office trivia until the play opens, take a look at some of our favorite Office factoids here:
1. Steve Carell didn’t want to watch the UK version of The Office beforehand because he didn’t want to simply imitate Ricky Gervais’ version of the character.
2. John Krasinski and Brian Baumgartner would spend almost every lunch together in Baumgartner’s trailer playing John Madden Football.
3. The document being highlighted in the opening credits scene is a copy of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, Section 12.22.
4. Oscar Nunez, who plays Oscar Martinez, didn’t think the show would be a success, so kept his jobs as a server and a babysitter when he first got the role.
5. Many of the cast’s characteristics were intentionally incorporated into the character’s personalities throughout the series.
6. Pam’s lactation consultant after she gives birth in “The Delivery” is actually Fischer’s real-life husband, Lee Kirk.
7. Seth Rogen auditioned and was considered for the role of Dwight. Adam Scott and John Cho auditioned for the role of Jim.
8. Krasinski, Mindy Kaling, and Ellie Kemper were all previously interns at Late Night With Conan O’Brien.
9. At this early lunch Carell said, “Of all the roles I’ll end up doing and all the films I may shoot, I believe that Michael Scott may be the role I’ll always be most known for.”
10. Pam’s painting is replaced with a motivational poster for a few episodes in Season 6, but reappears later in the same season.
11. Brian Baumgartner (Kevin) and Ed Helms (Andy) attended the same high school.
12. When the Stamford branch and Scranton branch merged, the idea was to eventually alienate, fire, or cause all of the Stamford character’s to quit, but Ed Helms was so funny they decided to convert him into a series regular.
13. During the first season of the show, the actors were told to bring in paperwork to keep busy when they were doing background work, as they didn’t have real computers.
14. Oscar Nunez had the only computer with a working speaker and would mostly use it to play videos of people falling over and bumping into things.
15. In “Launch Party” John Krasinski accidentally signed his own name on to Meredith’s cast instead of Jim’s.
16. The cast and crew always wrote and shot more footage than they needed to. Many of the episodes could have been hour long.
17. Spinoffs were planned for both Andy and Dwight to get their own shows but eventually fell through.
18. Krasinski and Rainn Wilson would give each other tips during Jim and Dwight’s quarrel scenes, and many of their best improv lines and directives came from the other.
19. Smith is 11 years older than Steve Carell, despite many references indicating their characters are supposed to be the same age.
20. Steve Carell had seriously active sweat glands, so the temperature on set had to be kept at a cold 64°F, until they eventually invested in space heaters.
21. Jim and Pam’s first kiss was John Krasinski’s first ever onscreen kiss, about which he may have lied to Jenna Fischer when she asked if he’d ever done it before.
22. After Michael fell into a Koi Pond at a sales call, many of the employees changed the screensavers on their computers to fish tanks.
23. Rashida Jones thought she was going to be fired her first day on set for laughing at Steve Carell’s improvising.
24. Novak was the first person to be cast. He was also hired as a writer, starting the tradition of writer-performers wherein many of the writers would star in the show and many of the actors would contribute to writing.
25. Krasinski had to cut his hair for the film Leatherheads, so he was forced to wear a wig for the last six episodes of Season 3 of The Office.
26. Rainn Wilson wrote a blog for Dwight, even though now it only has that one page.
27. In “Gay Witch Hunt”, the script only intended for Michael to hug Oscar, so when Carell improvised the kiss, the cast’s reactions were completely authentic.