The OSCAR®-qualifying musical thriller TROUBLE is a dark riff on a classic musical.
Anthony Rapp, and Tony Award Winner John Rubinstein star in Jacob Chase’s Oscar®-qualifying musical Trouble
Los Angeles, CA (OC. Date, 2023). In Jacob Chase’s Trouble we follow a traveling salesman, Anthony Rapp (Broadway’s RENT), giving a sales pitch to a helpless elderly man, John Rubinstein (Broadway’s CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD), through beautifully choreographed song and dance. Starting off as an innocent interaction between salesman and customer, the pitch takes a chilling turn. Available online, Trouble has earned consideration for the 2024 Academy® Awards.
Logline: Set in 1952, this musical thriller is what happens when a traveling salesman shows up on the doorstep of a dying old man and can’t contain the song within his heart. A dark riff on a classic musical.
Jacob Chase is an in-demand director and writer with a wide range of experience spanning across film and television. He is known for writing and directing Come Play for Amblin and Focus Features based on his viral short film, Larry. Next up, he wrote and will direct a movie for Blumhouse, as well as an Untitled James Wan project. His most recent short film, Mr. Blur, premiered at Fantasia 2023 where Jacob won the International Jury Award for Best Director. For television, Jacob directed and produced The Girl in The Woods for Peacock. He is currently co-writing a top-secret pilot for Disney+ and is adapting Rob Hart’s new book Paradox Hotel as a one-hour for Working Title and NBCU.
The Official Trailer for Trouble starring Anthony Rapp.
Producer Andrew Carlberg is an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning producer, covering film, television, new media, Broadway and Los Angeles stage. Named by Variety (alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mindy Kaling, Ryan Coogler, Beau Willimon, and Olivia Wilde) as one of “Hollywoodʼs New Leaders,” Carlberg has an extensive list of credits, including ABC’s CASTLE, Broadway’s ROMEO AND JULIET, Netflix’s SUN DOGS and HBOMax’s THE FALLOUT. Notably, Carlberg was the producer of SKIN, winner of the 2019 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.
The beautiful music was written by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, who are the songwriters behind Broadway’s FIRST DATE (starring Zachary Levi), ABC’s ONCE UPON A TIME musical episode, and HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: THE SERIES on Disney+.
The choreography was created by Sean Lew who has starred on the hit NBC series WORLD OF DANCE, danced nationally on THE QUEEN LATIFAH SHOW, for Janet Jackson on her Unbreakable World Tour, and in Sia’s short film video THE GREATEST.
TROUBLE has qualified to be considered for a 2024 Academy® Award.
Starring
Anthony Rapp, John Rubinstein, Gwen Hollander, Chace Castle, Joshua Pelatzky, Traci Swartz
Written & Directed by: Jacob Chase
Produced by: Andrew Carlberg
Produced by: Jacob Chase
Executive Producer: A.J. Kelly
Original Song by: Alan Zachary & Michael Weiner
Score and Orchestrations by: Zach Robinson
Choreographed by: Sean Lew
Director of Photography: Florian Stadler
Production Designer: Sam Neidenbach
Costume Designer: Michael Mullen
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