Line #5 Trivia/SpiesareForever


1	* ActingForTwo: Obviously a necessity for everyone in the show other than lead actor Curt Mega, as is typical for a musical (although [[spoiler: Creator/JoeWalker being CastAsAMask to hide that the Deadliest Man Alive is the same person as Owen is an inversion]]). WordOfGod, though, is that in the ideal, unlimited-budget version of the show as a movie musical, the [[AllKnowingSingingNarrator mysteriously all-knowing]] [[TheChanteuse chanteuse]] in the ActionPrologue would still be played by the same actress as Tatiana.
2	* TheDanza: Many fans were surprised to find out that "Curt Mega [[AsHimself as Curt Mega]]" isn't a joke and that the actor is, in fact, named Curt Mega in RealLife. WordOfGod is the Creator/TinCanBrothers were at a loss for a suitably AwesomeMcCoolName for their James Bond {{Expy}} and decided that Curt's real name was cool-sounding enough. ("Mega" is a Greek surname [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin meaning "large"]].)
3	* FilmedStageProduction: Tin Can Brothers made the entire show available to watch on [=YouTube=].
4	* JewsPlayingNazis: Dr. Baron von Nazi is played by Creator/BrianRosenthal.
5	* MethodActing: Creator/LaurenLopez insisted on smoking real cigarettes rather than fake ones for the show, partly because they helped [[SmokyVoice deepen her voice]] to play Cynthia.
6	* ProductionPosse: This is the first full-length Creator/TinCanBrothers stage show, and helped establish a ProductionPosse for their later projects. It was mostly cast from actors in the social orbit of Creator/TeamStarkid who were located in the LA area, including Starkid regulars Creator/LaurenLopez and Creator/JoeWalker, and Creator/JoeMoses' girlfriend Tessa Netting. Creator/MaryKateWiles had acted with Creator/JoeyRichter in ''[[https://youtu.be/yNUUFYHjnIo Muzzled: the Musical]]'' and ''WebVideo/SchoolOfThrones'' for Creator/MatthewMercer's Will Save Productions, and this was her first major project with TCB; her troupe WebVideo/ShipwreckedComedy would return the favor by casting Joey and Lauren in ''WebVideo/PoeParty'' later that year. Curt Mega, their star, was a friend of Creator/TeamStarkid after acting on ''Series/{{Glee}}'' with Creator/DarrenCriss (where he played Blaine's fellow Warbler Nick). Esther Fallick had previously acted in sketches as the Tin Can Brothers' "intern" Al, and would later star in Creator/TeamStarkid's project ''Movies, Musicals and Me''.
7	** The music for the show was provided by musical duo [=TalkFine=] consisting of Clark Baxtresser and Pierce Siebers, who had previously provided the music for Starkid's ''Theatre/{{Ani}}'', and would later compose the music for ''Flop Stoppers'' and ''Webvideo/WaywardGuideForTheUntrainedEye''.
8	* TheOtherDarrin: After Creator/JoeWalker retired from acting in 2016, the plans for the 2020 reunion concert ''Spies Are Forever: In Concert at 54 Below'' involved having Broadway actors AJ Holmes, Carlos Valdes and Pomme Koch fill in for him on the DMA's songs.
9	* PromotedFanboy: ''Spies Are Forever'' was produced four years after Tessa Netting and Curt Mega made [[https://youtu.be/CkFqRhE1axM this video]] in 2012, with Tessa and Curt making their debut in a "Starkid-adjacent" production acting alongside Creator/JoeyRichter, Creator/JoeWalker and Creator/LaurenLopez. Three years after that, Curt (and his wife Kim Whalen) would go on to officially become Starkid actors in ''Theatre/BlackFriday''.
10	* WorkingTitle: Hilariously, before they had to come up with an official title to put it on the soundtrack album, the creators' only title for "The Coldest Goodbye" was "Spies Are Forever (Sad)".

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