The opening to Cannibal the Musical at the Avalon theater.

A little backstory - when you do Cannibal the Musical, there's no official stage adaptation - so you're pretty much free to do whatever you need to to make it work (much like our Japanese "indians" became Scottish pirate "indians") The movie starts off with a funny and incredibly violent massacre scene, something we couldn't do practically on stage. So, with the help of the cast, I set out to make a superviolent cartoon that would play before the show started.

Flash forward two months later. The animation was shaping up and the deadlines were tight, but we were on our way to having a fairy impressive animation to play for the show. And then disaster struck.

After a reboot, the computer started losing files on that drive. Directories would come up but not allow me to look at the files, and if they did come up, they were scrambled. And then I started noticing the siren like noise of the harddrive spinning up with what sounded like a spoon being tapped against the case. My hard drive was toast.

So, I'm stuck with about two months of animation down the drain and this three minute hole in the program that was essential to the open of the show. I gave it some quick thought and wrote this.

Big thanks to Dave Bailey for agreeing to let me ruin his good name and to Lee Borden for his gravitas soaked performance as the narrator.

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