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"Chubby Surf" Boards Create Design Waves in Vegas and on Two Coasts

an interview by Frankie Tease. After seeing "Surf the Musical", the Broadway-level production that was at the Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas during August 2012, I couldn't help wonder how they got the $10 Million in props ready for the show (Read my show review ). Sure, the multi-media aspect of it's glimmering L.E.D. backdrops were fascinating, and the cars too, but I couldn't help fixating on the organic craft of restoring old vintage surfboards. After all, surfers are an amazing group of people, and the boards reminded me of great times in California growing up. The musical had surfboards as tables, surfboards as surfboards (that thing you surf on in the ocean), decorations on walls, and even surfboards as advertising in kiosks outside the theater (pictured left - and how clever).  After a little searching, I found out the surfboards were made by the guy from " Chubby Surf"  ( Dear John, Shark Week, Austin City Limits Festival, Long Be

"Surf the Musical" Brings the "Beach Boys" Music to a New Generation and Closes a Month into Vegas Run

The allure of a musical set to original tracks of the Beach Boys was too much to bare. I decided to go check out the new show on the Las Vegas Strip which rolled out the red carpet July 17th, 2012. But just as I was getting 'on board' the surf hullabaloo, the show announced it would be closing August 15th, 2012, a month or so after it's official opening. Shucks, now I had to rush.  Ticket sales seem to be the bottom-line reason to close, according to the Las Vegas Sun , which reported that the show would be closing early, and that it was never officially endorsed by the Beach Boys. Could the reason for its' closing simply be the lack of endorsement by the Beach Boys themselves like it's predecessor "Good Vibrations" which only ran a short time on Broadway? I surely hope not.  A star-studded cast of Broadway & TV performers put their all into this highly modernized production called "Surf the Musical" with its roots in Calif