https://www.seekingtheexit.com/home daily 1.0 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf0d67a17a4e2eac898fc3/59e0e5af-76c0-4449-8382-d177fc36de2d/halo.jpg Home Desperately Seeking the Exit The international h*t show about a sh*t show. In 2007, American actor and playwright Peter Michael Marino wrote a musical based on the film “Desperately Seeking Susan,” featuring the music of Blondie. It opened on London’s West End…and closed a month later. Whoops! This high-octane, comical solo train ride fills in the blanks of how the $6 million musical was made and unmade. From hatching the idea to making deals with producers, MGM, Debbie Harry and even Madonna - all the way to thrilling workshops, dangerous previews, scathing reviews, closing night and beyond. https://www.seekingtheexit.com/ravespress daily 0.75 2021-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf0d67a17a4e2eac898fc3/de910e45-71a9-4002-bc06-d63ccd93eeb5/faveshowsbuffalo.png RAVES & PRESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf0d67a17a4e2eac898fc3/e8b8e5cd-7a20-4d8d-86d3-193eaada0936/wreathbest.png RAVES & PRESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf0d67a17a4e2eac898fc3/f4a507f5-b37d-45d1-959f-d857c366d3d3/wreathtop5.png RAVES & PRESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf0d67a17a4e2eac898fc3/bc484a7c-cf49-40cf-af5f-aa5649cdb605/orlandolaurel.png RAVES & PRESS https://www.seekingtheexit.com/team daily 0.75 2022-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf0d67a17a4e2eac898fc3/a3d2ae06-d288-42d6-93e1-eeb39f7758d2/clancy.jpg TEAM - JOHN CLANCY (DIRECTOR) John Clancy is an Obie Award-winning director and a partner in Clancy Productions, a critically acclaimed international theatrical touring and production company. He is the founding Artistic Director of The Present Company, a leading Off-Off Broadway theatre company and a founding Artistic Director of The New York International Fringe Festival. He has directed six Scotsman Fringe First winning productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including Americana Absurdum (Brian Parks), Cincinnati (Don Nigro), Horse Country (C.J. Hopkins), screwmachine/eycandy (C.J. Hopkins) and his own Fatboy. Both Horse Country and Cincinnati went on to win The Best of the Fringe Award at the Adelaide Fringe in 2004. In 2002 he received a Glasgow Herald Angel for excellence in direction at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. John was awarded The New York Magazine Award in 1997 for “creativity, enterprise and vision”. In 2007 he was awarded the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf0d67a17a4e2eac898fc3/6ac67036-f649-4135-89cc-6ac8b05fb987/MARINOB%26W8X10-01.jpg TEAM - PETER MICHAEL MARINO (CREATOR/PERFORMER) Peter Michael Marino is an award-winning solo show teacher, writer, director, producer, and performer. He is one of the pioneers of live online virtual shows with his long-running, critically acclaimed Show Up, Kids!, Planet of the Grapes Live, and Desperately Seeking the Exit. Pete played bad guy Joules Volter in the immersive Off-Broadway hit Pip’s Island. He is the creator of SOLOCOM, which has launched over 600 world-premiere, international solo comedies at The People’s Improv Theater. His 2015 solo chat show spoof, Late with Lance! played NYC, London, Buffalo, Orlando, Hollywood and the Edinburgh Fringe. Peter also appeared off-Broadway for five years in the percussion sensation STOMP. Pete’s production company PM2 Entertainment has presented the EdFringe debut of Jason Kravits' Off the Top, the NYC debut of Joe's NYC Bar, David Mills: Shame! at Pangea, LA comedy duo Moby Alpha, and the acclaimed solo show hit David Carl's Celebrity One-Man Hamlet in NYC, Edinburgh and Chicago. www.petermmarino.com https://www.seekingtheexit.com/new-page daily 0.75 2022-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf0d67a17a4e2eac898fc3/a76285ff-9bdb-4f2e-bdc4-b85b997e03ee/DSE+Poster+2013_PROOF.jpg BLOG & TOSS Pete kept a fairly extensive blog about his adventures with his musical and the show about his musical. 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