STAGE TUBE: Teague Chrystie & Jim Frommeyer Present SAD MAX

Teague Chrystie and Jim Frommeyer ("A Very Calvin and Hobbes Christmas") announce the release of their 28-minute original musical, "Sad Max." Written, directed, edited and performed by Chrystie, host of the popular film commentary podcast "Down in Front" in his first-ever acting performance, and produced by Frommeyer, "Sad Max" is the kind of project that could only happen in the age of YouTube. The musical is about a YouTube celebrity who was famous for his piano tutorials, and the musical itself is accompanied by actual YouTube piano tutorials for every song in the show. The film, the soundtrack and the tutorials are all available for free on YouTube and SadMaxMusical.com, making this project a celebration of all the things modern internet video can be. Check out the full video!

Before the world ended, Max (Chrystie) was a pretty high-profile YouTube user, posting tutorials and cover songs on his channel and struggling with his inability to write music he liked. After the apocalypse he ends up trapped in his basement without food, water, an internet connection or an audience; all he has is a pet fish, a camera, and a piano. To stave off madness and crippling existential crisis, he spends his last days doing the one thing he had never been able to do before: writing a musical that he can be proud of.

Teague Chrystie is a visual FX artist ("The Pacific," "Fringe," "Battlestar Galactica: Razor") and the host of the film commentary podcast "Down in Front" (http://www.downinfront.net). "Sad Max" is his acting debut. He wrote the script as well as the music and lyrics for "Sad Max," as well as did his own makeup and grew a beard (twice!) to realize the character on his long journey into starvation and madness.

Jim Frommeyer is a director and producer, and is best known for directing the Chrystie-produced "A Very Calvin and Hobbes Christmas," that swept through the blogosphere in the winter of 2011.