He Ambitiously Recreates Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog at Penn (VIDEOS)

Considering it is vlog week here on DT, I thought I would give a nod to a recent production on Penn's campus all about vlogs, ...or to be more precise, one very popular "Sing-Along Blog"...

In my facebook feed I saw that director Ben Grinberg (C'11) was staging a production of the popular viral video hit "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" for Penn's Fall 2009 New Student Orientation show.

Below, check out the "Laundry Day" clip that Ben sent me ...and then see the original clip below that starring Neil Patrick Harris!


I love how Ben has projected the laundrymat as a video in the background during the scene!  (fyi, check out Ben's other entertaining video projects HERE)

Original production written by Maurissa Tanchardoen, Jed Whedon, Joss Whedon, and Zack Whedon. Penn's version produced by Julia Kahn (C'10). Directed by Ben Grinberg (C'11). Musically Directed by Reza Mirsajadi (C'11).

CAST Dr. Horrible: Mike Silverstein (C'12), Captain Hammer: Harrison Unger (C'10), Penny: Cassidy Regan (C'10), Ensemble: Jack Stanley (C'11), Jess Dignam (C'12), Annie Norbitz (C'12), Amanda Atkinson (C'12), Kevin McAleer (C'10), Dan Singer (C'10).

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Their Brilliant Mockumentary: "Dungeons and Dragons" Meets "Waiting for Guffman"

A bunch of Penn undergrads including some of the talented actors from Penn's improv group Without a Net as well as some Drexel improv group students partnered together to create Wizards of West Philly, a mockumentary that can be best described as Dungeons and Dragons meets the TV stylings of "The Office" and/or the film Waiting for Guffman.  

Although instead of Dungeons and Dragons, this very well done short is about the followers of another (apparently) popular game called "Magic".  Producer Dave Farber (C'11) describes the game to me as "a newer generation thing, though there are adults (some as old as 40 we found) who play the game."

Per Wikipdeia, Magic can be described as

"Magic: The Gathering is a collectible card game created by a UPenn Mathematics Graduate Student named Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993. It is loosely based on the game Dungeons and Dragons, where each player is a wizard who utilizes the magical spells, items, and fantastic creatures depicted on individual Magic cards to defeat their opponents. The game is intended for a younger audience, but has a large following among young (and not so young) adults. There are Magic grand prixs and tournaments in the U.S. much akin to Poker tournaments where players compete for cash prizes. In 2006, over $3 million was doled out in Magic tournaments across the U.S.

Watch the video above...it really is well produced!   And is it me or does Anthony Levy (C'11) remind you of Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader?

Penn actors:
Anthony Levy (C'11), Molly Mitchell (C'11), Joe Lawless (C'12), Lucy Wolf (C'12),

Drexel's actors:
Jake Beckerman - Drexel '09, Luke Giordano - Drexel '09

The crew that worked on it were from Prof. Ellen Reynolds Video 1 class:
Dave Farber (C'09), Tom Fang (W'10), Aliza Fischer (C'09), Jason Rasmussen (W'12), Kirstin Snyder (W'12)

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These 4 Penn Friends Want You To Lend for Peace

What happens when 4 Penn alumni come together to raise money for a good cause? Ask (l to r in pic in left) David Fraga (C'07, Mask and Wig, Sphinx Senior Society, Performing Arts Council), Allam Taj, (Law '09), Sam Adelsberg (C'10), and Andrew Dudum (C'11).

In February, these 4 created LendforPeace.org, a non-profit microfinance platform focused on the Middle East and was recently featured on Fox Business (see interview clip above featuring David Fraga).

LendforPeace.org was founded by these four Penn students (two Jews and two Palestinians) on the premise that grassroots economic development through microfinance may help increase stability in the Middle East. While the founders disagree about a lot of things, it is hard to disagree about a mission of poverty alleviation and job creation.

Supported by such institutions as the Clinton Global Initiative and Ashoka (the largest association of social entrepreneurs in the world), Lendforpeace.org was launched on February 5th at an event on Penn's campus.

Visit www.LendforPeace.org and their Blog HERE

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Zac Efron Wishes He Could Be in This Wharton Musical (VIDEO)

While I don't remember this concept existing on campus while I was making my decision as to which college I would be going to, last Friday, Penn hosted Penn Previews for the newly accepted, though not yet matriculated Class of 2013. It's an opportunity for students to visit the campus, get presentations from their respective schools, and go on campus tours.

In other words, it's Penn's hard sell.

Over the past 2 years the Wharton admissions committee wanted their presentation to be more fun so they had Brian Tran (W'10) produce some creative short films. The theme for this year was "A Day in the Life" so Brian created an exaggerated Disney-ish "first day of class" musical.

Some of my favorite highlights of this year's video (above) include:

• choreography in Wharton and Locust Walk that you just won’t want to miss
• a girl’s hair being let down followed by a "hair toss" in Wharton before the big musical number
  
• harmony-filled interludes
• the "blackberry girls" (you'll just have to watch to find out about these girls!)
  

Directed by Brian Tran (W'10, Penn Singers)
Music and Lyrics by Kevin McAleer (C'10)
Choreography by Jonathan Rivera (C'10, Penn Singers)
Artistic Design by Veronica Decker (C'11)

Learn more about what happened during Penn Previews from the DP here

More exciting videos that will get prospects, undergrads and alumni all riled up for Penn

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Undergrad Class Election Videos Once Again Get Creative

It's student election season at UPenn and my facebook feed is loaded with lots of "Vote [insert name] for [insert position]!" tweets.

As I mentioned in my posts from last year, some of the more proactive candidates are really getting creative with how they are promoting themselves.  It is no longer enough to just canvas the campus and the kiosks with flyers.

It's now all about facebook election posts, groups and videos!

Check out 2 informative, creative and humorous campaign videos I've seen so far from Matt Amalfitano (C'11) for College Rep and Mo Shahin (C'11) for Treasurer.

More info and "more standard" videos from all the candidates on the DP site HERE

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Love Week '09: This is Dedicated To The Ones I Love

(l to r: Michael Yee (SEAS '11), Nick Madian (C'11), Mark Huerta (C'09), Greg Buchak (W'09), 

Garrett Bruer (SEAS '09), Josh Eisenberg (C'11), Patrick Wolff (C'09))

As I did last year, the Glee Club was allowing people to place *orders here to send Singing Valentines to "that special someone."

...And this year the Glee Club is teaming up with the Penn's Chapter of Habitat for Humanity. All proceeds will benefit the mission of Habitat for Humanity to provide affordable housing to all those in need.  So you're really spreading the love to those in need when you place your order!

Thanks to Fan Zhou (C'10) from the Glee Club, once again I placed my order to send a Singing Valentine to you and all of my readers... my "special someones".  It comes from the Glee Club to you ... via video!

Thank you readers out there for coming back each day! 

And I would also like to take this opportunity to dedicate this video to the memory of the Glee Club's former director, Bruce "Monty" Montgomery.  (click here to see exclusive DT videos from when the Glee Club honored Monty on his 80th birthday)

Get serenaded above!

Check back tomorrow for another Love Week '09 post!

*NOTE: Singing Valentines will NOT be sold for the next day after 4 PM the day before. PLEASE purchase your Valentines before then!  NO MORE VALENTINES WILL BE SOLD FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2009! SORRY!

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Showdates are Feb. 26, 27, and 28 at the Zellerbach theater

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• A Sweet Proposal
• Better Than Sending You Chocolates!
• She's a Cupid for Penn Alumni
• He's Celebrating 10 Years of Love
• They Really Love the Library
• She's Got the Opposite of Love
• He's Got Her Number
• His Unsatiable Flavor of Love

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His Documentary on How Bright Penn Students Aren't

As Penn has just graduated another class into the world, I thought it would be fun to showcase Kabir Bedi's (C'11) fun little short class project "investigation" on how bright Penn students actually are ....or aren't? ;)

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Music Mondays: This Hip-Hop Artist Wants Change

I recently discovered a new Penn talent in the world of hip hop. He’s opened up for various world-wide and local icons such as Ludacris, The Pack, Yukmouth, Frontline, and many more.



…And he’s an undergrad.



I’ll be honest, I don’t follow Hip-Hop too much, but when I heard Etan Fraser’s (C’11) music, I became a fan.



This past week, Etan put out a music video with his girlfriend Stephanie McIntyre (C’11) encouraging change through a vote for Obama. This is some good inspirational music if you ask me.



Watch his video here





Per Etan, the heart of his work “shines through the lyrical content of my music, which is richly diverse in content in regards to emotion, subject matter, and lively performance-based songs”.



More music on Etan’s myspace page



Etan's start in Hip-Hop and the great opportunities he had at an early age



On a related "political" note,

• there seems to be a big movement recently on campus around Obama. As reported last week, John Legend (C’99) came to campus and performed an original song for Obama’s campaign.
  
  


• As for Hillary, there was some movement in early March on campus around the Clinton campaign, and apparently tonight, she's coming to the Palestra!
  
  


• And this is the only McCain coverage I've seen on campus
  
  

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Undergrad Election Videos Go Viral ...Again!

We've been hearing promises of commitment, creativity and change come recently from Hillary and Obama... and now from the Class of 2011!

In Fall 2007, the 2011 candidates were using web videos to promote themselves for Class Offices and the Undergrad Assembly.

It seems like everyone's back now from Spring Break and they're campaigning hard ...especially via facebook! I just spotted the first campaign video for Spring 2008 elections ...this one from Adam Behrens for Class of 2011 President and Matt Amaltifano for Undergraduate Assembly.

Watch their video here!

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I will also promote those candidates who get creative by taking a picture with Ben on the Bench for our March contest here!

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Now and Then Thursdays: Competition in the Library

Over the decades there’s always been competition in the Penn libraries. It is true now as it was back in my day.

As we saw in one of my previous posts, Ben Grinberg (C’11) shows us that there are all sorts of characters one can find in Penn libraries. Specifically, he noted the “Library Ostrich” and how this character is “territorial and easy to anger” and “it would be a bad idea to cross her.”

Well in my “Now and Then Thursdays” series this week, I want to show you a class project video I did back in 1996 for Paul Buck’s class featuring one of these “Library Ostriches” and the comedic consequences of when she is crossed.

Featuring Jared Miller (C’97) and Julia Oh (C’98)

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This year's Penn "Rich Girl"

There are all types of people at Penn.

These types seem to have stayed true through the decades ...from the animals we find in the library to the "princesses" we see around campus.

I just found this fun little video starring Amy Woodrum (C'11) which brings us a day in the life of today's Penn "rich girl".

Click here to check out the video

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This freshman really hates finals

Before we dive into a new year of some exciting alumni and undergrad news (and I've got a ton of it coming soon), some more class projects recently have come to my attention worth noting.

As we can all attest, at one point or another, finals have gotten the best of all of us.

Having experienced his first semester of finals, freshman Ben Grinberg (C'11) thinks the desire for success during finals turns all of us into animals.

See what I mean and check out his class project video for Video I!

Watch Ben's interpretation of some of the animals you'll find in Penn's library
(this is great!)

Starring:
Allison Karic (C'09) -- Turtle
John Vilanova (C'09) -- Rhino
Genna Erlikhman (C'09) -- Ape
Ben Grinberg (C'11) -- Writer/Director/Guy
Jenny Birnkrant (C'10) -- Cat
Megan Reilly (C'10) -- Ostrich
with voice overs by Sean Kelly (C'11)

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Will this fresman finish with a Grammy before a degree?

If Andrew Dudum (W'11) were to try out for any of Penn's a capella groups, odds are he would have surely made it.

Instead this talented undergrad is continuing on a solo track he started before he even got to Penn.

Per the DP, a few weeks ago Andrew was selected to headline the Rock the Mic for Darfur concert which helped raise funds for the Darfur Alert Coalition. Besides that, he's on an independent record label and already has a CD released.

This guy definitely has the chops and has a good tone to his voice. He's one to look out for...

Click below to watch Andrew's performances:
"Don't Wanna Fight"(live in Philadelphia)
"Church Boy"(live in Philadelphia)
"Freedom"(live in Philadelphia)
"Apologize" cover(live in Philadelphia)
"Fly with Me"(live in San Francisco)

This talented musician is also accomplished in another area which landed him at Carnegie Hall! Click here to find out!

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"My Super Sweet 16" ...Wharton Style

Okay, "A"s for everybody...

About 10 minutes after I wrote about the Mgmt 100 "Buy Buy Buy" class project video, Alex Marcus (C'11) emailed me letting me know the following:

"That Management 100 Buy Buy Buy video is good stuff, but Team RHDH's Super Sweet Sixteen video is pretty awesome as well. "

This is so Wharton, isn't it?

Well, Alex is right. His clever group did a pretty funny parody for their Mgmt 100 class based on MTV's "My Super Sweet 16".

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A for Effort

Their vocal stylings may not rival Off the Beat, or any performing arts group on campus for that matter, but the Management 100 Team So Fresh's class project music video, "Buy Buy Buy" is still entertaining.

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His $1,000 kick!

Nick Trasolini (C'11) is $1,000 richer.

Click here to find out why!

At November 3rd's Penn vs. Princeton football game, Nick was picked randomly from the crowd to participate in the Allstate "Good Hands" Field Goal Challenge at halftime. The 25 yard field goal challenge awarded a prize of $1000.

Per Nick, "some guy just walked up to me and asked me if i wanted to do it. If I hadn't made it i would have won two tickets to the next home football game."

Check out Nick's winning kick!

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