Courtesy of the ever-fascinating blog, Boing Boing, comes a review of the production from blogger Jason Scott.

An excerpt from Scott's tribute to "deep geekdom":

1982. Atari Games, to celebrate the creation of their Atari 2600 Pac-Man Game (which, I might add, was one of the most pathetic, slapdash, slipshod piece of programming ever to churn out of a development studio) held a massive "Pac Man Day" in Citicorp Center in New York City. Being a confessed "Pac Maniac", I couldn't resist. To complete the picture, you have to know that I had that great uncontrolled 11-year-old hair of unequal length, and an old army fatigue jacket with a "PAC MAN" t-shirt transfer on the back. Now, it was me and literately THOUSANDS of kids jammed into the inadequately-planned celebration area at the Center, with all of us vying for places to stand and have fun. They had the contest, which only had maybe a dozen of us actually show enough nerve to go up on stage, and due to a REALLY LOUD chomping sound, I placed somewhere around third. Of course, this is up to dispute, because the place essentially turned into a riot (I can still recall my father up on a balcony, screaming at me to stand against a wall so I wouldn't be stepped on) and they generally just THREW stuff into the crowd, but I was third.

This is a memory I will hold dear until all of time. It was not a depth. It was a pinnacle. It was a heady, breathless moment in time in which my own fannish interest in something led me to a situation, a unique situation, that could barely be explained to others without sounding truly off-the-wall, absolutely beyond saving. And like many such unique events, you hold a fear in your heart, beyond the memory, a fear that as time goes on you will not feel such things again.

So, as I sit here typing these words to you, I know I have achieved something of equal, deep geekdom.

I have attended an off-broadway musical based on The Last Starfighter.

Scott's review is worth reading in its entirety.

Sounds as if we've reached the outer limits of re-purposing content and have reached the point where the Serpent devours its own tail.

Links:

Review of "The Last Starfighter: The Musical" at the blog, ASCII by Jason Scott

Storm Theatre, where "The Last Starfighter" currently plays in New York

Boing Boing

Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World link to page in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, courtesy of Amazon.com's searchable index (page 412 in the classic Viking or current Penguin Twentieth Century Classics edition)