Reefer Madness Concert Reveals Music Secrets

After 25 years, each generation Reefer Madness: The Musical gathered in Hollywood this week to celebrate the show’s anniversary and a new era of marijuana.

During Tuesday Marijuana Madness During the Legacy Concert in Hollywood, the cast and creators of the iconic musical performed some of the show’s beloved songs and hits, and also revealed some fun behind-the-scenes secrets.

According to OG director Andy Fickman, who served as the evening’s emcee, Mary Lane star Kristen Bell chipped her tooth on a pull-out couch in her trailer while filming the 2005 Showtime musical adaptation. Although the actress wanted to fix the tooth with superglue and continue filming, Fickman insisted she see a professional.

Fickman also revealed that the film was made on the condition that it would be shot on the same set in Vancouver, Canada, that was previously used for the pilot episode. The word I (2004-2009). The director also thanked then-Showtime president Robert Greenblatt, who was in the audience Tuesday.

Writer Dan Studney suggested he had sex with Neve Campbell in their A party of five people days when he first told her about his idea for a musical. It was then that she recommended her brother and fellow actor Christian Campbell for the all-American lead role of Jimmy Harper (even though Christian is Canadian).

Additionally, Fickman mentioned actress Thelma White, who played the role of Mae in the original 1936 propaganda/exploitation film. Marijuana Madness — while attending one of the musical’s first performances before her death at age 94 in 2005. He said a fire dancer came dangerously close to White’s front-row seat, where she was hooked up to an oxygen tank and there were fears for her life.

Tuesday’s event included performances of some of the musical’s most beloved songs, as well as a few tunes that never made it into the show. Campbell graced the audience with “Dead Old Man,” which Studney says was the first song he ever wrote for the musical.

Rachel Bloom, who is not affiliated with the show, also made a guest appearance. She performed another cut song, “The Monkey Song”, with Campbell and OG stars Aukai Cain, Samantha Harris, and Stacy Sibley. Bloom admitted that she “thought I was performing a song with real monkeys” because early production actually featured a monkey in the number.

Bell surprised the audience with his performance of “Suddenly, Seymour” from Little Shop of Horrors with Anthony Norman, who is currently playing the role of Jimmy in the theater’s 25th anniversary production at the same venue, The Whitley at 6555 Hollywood Blvd.

Produced by Bell, Studney, Amirose Eisenbach and David Lamoureux Marijuana Madness The Legacy concert also featured cast regulars Harry S. Murphy, John Kassir, Lori Alan, Paul Nygro and Elijah Myles Breckel, as well as current stars Darcy Rose Byrnes, Thomas Dekker, J. Elaine Marcos, Bryan Daniel Porter, Andre Joseph Aultmon, David Toshiro Crane, Claire Crause, Natalie Holt MacDonald, Jane Papageorge and Alex Tho.

The evening was a chance to support the 40 Tons Foundation, which is bringing more diversity to the cannabis industry by giving second chances to those with criminal convictions and fighting to free those serving sentences for minor marijuana offenses. 40 Tons founders Loriel Alegrete, Anthony Alegrete and Corvain Cooper were also in attendance and thanked the show’s producers for their contributions.

Campbell and Bell were joined by their colleagues Reefer alumnus Alan Cumming will produce a new adaptation at The Whitley, directed and choreographed by Spencer Liff.

Darcy Rose Byrnes, Bryan Daniel Porter and Anthony Norman in a 25th anniversary production Reefer Madness: The Musical.

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“It was a no-brainer for me to come back to this,” Bell previously told Deadline. “I owe so much of my life to these people and this show.”

Now, 25 years after the original show debuted in Los Angeles, “The Reefer Den,” the affectionate name for the coffee shop next door to the OG musical’s venue where the cast would gather after each show, has been recreated as a fully-functioning live entertainment lounge for a new community of potheads.

Tickets for Reefer Madness: The Musical are available at ReeferMadness.com.