“Razor-sharp wit! Each monologue invites hilarity”
—Show Showdown
“A Funny and charming show! Delightful, delicious and feel-good.”
—Nitelife Exchange
"Cute and clever! Funny and joyously sincere. I laughed out loud!”
—Theater Pizzazz
“If you spend more money at Petco than at Whole Foods, then this is your show! An hour of joy, laughter, and some love!”
—Robert Bannon, The Roundtable on The Broadway Podcast Network
“Fast paced and sharply observed… the production finds something affectionate and familiar in the bond between dogs and people.”
—The Knockturnal
A New Comedy by
David Javerbaum
Directed by
Richard Israel
New Cast Members
todd cervaris
danielle ferland
APPEARING
julia murney
seth rudetsky
About
The Dog Show: Come. Sit. Stay, is the new comedy from 13-time Emmy winner and two-time Grammy winner David Javerbaum (Executive Producer and Head Writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; creator of @TheTweetOfGod; writer of An Act of God, starring Jim Parsons).
The Dog Show is inspired by a simple idea: dogs are wonderful, indispensable, and endlessly fascinating. See actors perform a series of monologues from the dogs’ perspective, giving voice to the thoughts, feelings, opinions, and obsessions that humans can only imagine. How do dogs really feel about taking baths? Sticking their heads out of car windows? Working as police dogs? And, most importantly, sniffing another dog’s behind?
Through these imagined canine perspectives, The Dog Show explores the wonderfully strange world of dogs, and the very human tendency to see ourselves in them through loyalty, love, and a zest for life.
Writer's Statement
One day about a year ago I was sitting at my desk searching for inspiration when I happened to catch the eye of my Maltipoo, Maggie. I could not help projecting what she was thinking. David, why do you
play with words all day? Words aren’t real, like smells. You spend your time doing silly things. Now if you’ll excuse me I have a 4:00 with my squeaky toy.
In catching myself projecting those thoughts onto her, I found the inspiration I’d been looking for. I conceived the idea of creating a series of monologues for a wide assortment of our four-legged best
friends, a piece that would collectively explore three subjects: dogs, people, and dogs and people. The result is The Dog Show.
From its inception I followed—“stole” also works—the template of Love Letters. Thus The Dog Show’s mise-en-scène consists of nothing more than actors, stools, music stands, sound cues, and a picture of each dog. The script is not memorized; the actors hold their scripts by design. Since the show is meant to be a study in character, not animal behavior, I wanted the words front and center. Thus the four performers are deliberately “leashed”, so to speak, to their scripts.
I hope watching The Dog Show re-enforces your love of our species’ best friend. The “moral” of the show is explicitly stated at the very end, so I won’t give it away, but I’ll say this: if you think there’s a
chance it includes the word “love”, you probably own a dog.
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David Javerbaum