Emmy-winning film and television composer Jim Dooley's (Pushing Daisies, Lemony Snicket’s: A Series of Unfortunate Events) new musical The Revue begins performances March 17 at Burbank, California's Colony Theatre for a limited run through March 27, with hopes for a future run in New York. 

In the musical, a theatre director and producer are faced with financial ruin and the loss of their beloved theatre unless they can find the next big sellout show. So, they hit the slush pile of scripts and audition several "never-shoulda-been-a-musical-shows."

Matt Walker directs and stars in the musical comedy, with choreography by Suzanne Jolie. The cast is rounded out by Rick Batalla, Katie DeShan, Tiffany Daniels, Isaac Robinson-Smith, and Travis Leland. Costume design is by Yuko Koresawa.

The Revue is built with a new structure concept dubbed a "dynamic plot." The first and the last song are fixed scenes, but the interior of the show (all those scripts that the theatre director and producer are auditioning) are made up of over 50 different "modules" that can be switched in and out to create an almost unlimited number of completely different performances tailored to the audience or to the cast.

The production team is keeping the song list out of the Playbill so that everything remains a surprise for the audience, but no movie—or composer—is safe from the skewer. Dooley's written more than 50 songs for The Revue, with one song per fictional musical adaptation—just a 2-minute taste of what each travesty might sound like. Of course, audiences will only hear 15-18 in one performance (remember those modules), but expect to see a little fun poked at titles like Castaway and Dumb and Dumber and composers Meredith Willson and Rodgers and Hammerstein.

For more information and ticketing, visit TheRevueMusical.com.