Y2K Comedy for Fan Fiction Lovers I'm Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire to Make World Premiere Off-Broadway | Playbill

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Off-Broadway News Y2K Comedy for Fan Fiction Lovers I'm Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire to Make World Premiere Off-Broadway

The new play about a middle schooler who plans to kidnap and marry the Spiderman actor is written by Samantha Hurley.

I'm Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire by Samantha Hurley will make its world premiere this July at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre. The Off-Broadway run will be directed by Tyler Struble and presented by Jacob Stuckelman for Watermark Productions.

Dealing with an absent father, a neglectful mother, and mean-spirited classmates, Shelby Hinkley's eighth grade is proving to be a hard time. To cope with it all, Shelby focuses on the best thing about 2004: Spiderman. When leading an online fan club is no longer enough, she decides to kidnap and marry Tobey Maguire; but will the actor live up to her happily-ever-after fantasies? 

The Y2K-set farcical comedy, which delves into para-social relationships and obsessions, will announce dates, casting, and more at a later date.

“If Shakespeare or Arthur Miller read this play, their brains would probably ooze out of their ears and honestly, I love that for me, for us,” says Hurley in a statement. “This is a play for my people. This is for the girlies who were writing One Direction fan fiction and for anyone who has ever kissed a glossy TigerBeat or magazine poster in their room. You may think this play is not for you, but it probably is.”

For more information, visit TheCellTheatre.org.

 
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