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ARCADEFIRE! [The Redemption of Billy Mitchell] is the latest musical IndyFringe offering from Indy's Catalyst Repertory Theatre. In fact, this show is the 10th IndyFringe for Catalyst Rep's founders! IndyFringe is a 10 day theatre festival in the Mass Ave cultural district of Indiana. Arcadefire! [The Redemption of Billy Mitchell] will be one of 65 shows playing at this huge festival. To celebrate our decade of ambitious, original IndyFringe scripts, the Catalyst team wants to bring royalty to the IndyFringe Theatre Festival. Video game royalty.
So, what's ARCADEFIRE! , you ask? (And no, not that band your sister listened to during her phase...). Arcadefire! [The Redemption of Billy Mitchell] is Catalyst's 2nd original musical with a book by Casey Ross and music by Christopher McNeely. ARCADEFIRE! [The Redemption of Billy Mitchell] is an irreverent, wacky, and inspirational journey back to Fun Spot Arcade and the good old days of gaming: Billy Mitchell, Video Game Player of the Century, had it all, until a 2007 documentary brought the gamer back into the public eye. Now, Billy faces the worst accusation a classic arcade champion can face: they're saying he cheated...
For a lot of us gaming laymen, we learned the name 'Billy Mitchell' from the cult-hit documentary, King of Kong: Fist Full of Quarters...if at all. To classic gaming fans, he is a God. In his home town, he's the 'Pacman' guy, the first man to ever achieve a perfect score in Pacman, seeing the end of the game, himself, and to the internet, he's a cheating fraud, a con man, a liar...and some other words that were too colorful for a GoFundMe campaign and that you'll have to come to the show to hear. But what's Billy Mitchel to himself? Maybe he's just a hot sauce selling family man, who plays Donkey Kong from time to time. Hopefully, by the end of the show, we'll help you make up your own mind...