Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright

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Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright
Details
DTV #	20
Production company	Warner Bros. Animation
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release date	August 20, 2013
Run time	78m
Starring	Frank Welker Matthew Lillard Grey DeLisle Mindy Cohn
Producers	Jason Wyatt (line producer) Alan Burnett (co-producer) Sam Register (executive producer) Victor Cook
Music	Robert J. Kral
Edited by	Bruce A. King
Story by	Doug Langdale Candie Langdale
Teleplay by	Doug Langdale
Directed by	Victor Cook
Chronology
Previous film	Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
Next film	Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery

Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright is the twentieth in a series of direct-to-video films based upon Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 20, 2013.

Premise

The windy city is home to the hit TV show, Talent Star, in which songwriting duo Fred Jones and Daphne Blake are finalists with some high hopes. Not to be left out, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy Rogers have a secret act in the works, which they are betting will take the contest by storm. Unlucky for them, the competition is frightful at this talent contest as the show is being broadcast from an opera house with a history of horrors and a particularly vengeful phantom that has cursed the show's production. From costume changin' chases to collecting creepy clues, the show must go on.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

• Mystery Inc.
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Shaggy Rogers
  • Fred Jones
  • Daphne Blake
  • Velma Dinkley

Supporting characters:

• Colette ^{(only appearance)}
• Security guard 1 ^{(only appearance)}
• Chrissy Damon ^{(only appearance)}
• Emma Gale ^{(only appearance)}
• Great Pauldini ^{(only appearance)}
• Waldo ^{(only appearance)}
• Girl-O-Saurus Rex ^{(only appearance)}
  • Amy ^{(only appearance)}
  • Cathy ^{(only appearance)}
  • Nancy ^{(only appearance)}
  • Donna ^{(only appearance)}
• Lotte Lavoie ^{(only appearance)}
• Mike Gale ^{(only appearance)}
• Meg Gale ^{(only appearance)}
• K.T. ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Phantom 1 ^{(only appearance)(main story and flashback)}/
• Steve Trilby ^{(only appearance)(redeemed)}
• Phantom 2 ^{(only appearance)(disguise)}/
• Lance Damon ^{(only appearance)}
• Barb Damon ^{(only appearance)}
• Phantom 3 ^{(only appearance)(disguise)}/
• Mel Richmond ^{(only appearance)}
• Phantom 4 ^{(only appearance)(disguise)}/
• Dewey Ottoman ^{(only appearance)}
• Phantom 5 ^{(only appearance)(disguise)}/
• Brick Pimiento ^{(only appearance)}

Other characters:

• Hotel clerk ^{(only appearance)}
• Security guard 2 ^{(only appearance)}
• Waitress ^{(only appearance)}
• Doctor ^{(only appearance)}
• Brad Adams ^{(final appearance)(no lines)(cameo)}
• Newscaster ^{(only appearance)(TV or computer screen)}
• Goose Lake Monster ^{(only time mentioned)}

Locations

• Chicago, Illinois
  • Opera house
    • Talent Star
      • Stage
      • Sound room
      • Dressing rooms
      • Sewer
      • Dewey Ottoman's office
  • Chicago Drive
  • Chicago Theater
  • Hotel Canard
  • Giovanni's Pizza
  • Riley & Co.
  • Mineralogical Society
• Ireland ^(mentioned)
• Santa Fe ^(mentioned)
• London ^(mentioned)
• Mexico City ^(mentioned)
• San De Pedro ^(mentioned)
• La Serena ^(mentioned)
• Jamaica ^(mentioned)
• Egypt ^(mentioned)
• Goose Lake ^(photograph)

Objects

• Chicago Travel Guide
• Smelling salts
• Emma Gale's violin
• Disco ball ^{(flashback only)}
• Pizza
• Flashlights
• Soap Diamond
• Fudge-A-Roni
• Pink Slime 5
• Acme Gazette

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine
• Dewey Ottoman's car

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Lance Damon Barb Damon Chrissy Damon	Chrissy was the favorite of the Phantom who wanted her to win.
Brick Pimiento	He liked the publicity that the Phantom brings.
Mel Richmond	He says his theater loses money and he would prefer burn it.
Dewey Ottoman	Daphne said he is creepy.
Lotte Lavoie	She threatened Shaggy and Scooby. Shaggy said she was scarier than the Phantom.
Great Pauldini	One of the Phantom's had prepared vanishing tricks using stage magic.
Steve Trilby	He was the first Phantom to terrorize the opera house, when it was a disco.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Mel Richmond	To burn down his money-losing theater for the insurance money.
Lance Damon	So his daughter would win the talent contest.
Dewey Ottoman	To steal the Soap Diamond, to add to his collection of the three cleanliness treasures.
Brick Pimiento	Publicity for his TV show, because the ratings were dropping.

Cast

Frank Welker	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones
Matthew Lillard	Shaggy Rogers
Grey DeLisle	Daphne Blake Amy
Mindy Cohn	Velma Dinkley
Isabella Acres	Emma Gale
Troy Baker	Phantom Lance Damon
Eric Bauza	K.T.
Jeff Bennett	Mike Gale Mel Richmond
Wayne Brady	Brick Pimiento
Vivica A. Fox	Lotte Lavoie
Kate Higgins	Meg Gale Cathy
Peter MacNicol	Dewey Ottoman
Candi Milo	Barb Damon
John O'Hurley	The Great Pauldini
Christina Pucelli	Colette
Kevin Michael Richardson	Security guard 1 Hotel clerk
Paul Rugg	Steve Trilby
Tara Sands	Nancy
Tara Strong	News anchor Donna
Travis Willingham	Waldo
Ariel Winter	Chrissy Damon

Songs

Song	Credits	Performed by	Character performance by
"On the Case"	Written and produced by Andy Sturmer	The Slow Downs	N/A
"Homewrecker"	Written by Hughie Stone Fish and Brendyn Adams	Ariel Winter	Chrissy Damon
"It's Enough For Me"	Written by Alan Burnett, Doug Langdale and Andy Sturmer	Grey DeLisle and Frank Welker	Daphne Blake and Fred Jones (Blake and Jones)
"I Love You"	Written and produced by Andy Sturmer

Continuity

• In the van next to Velma, besides the book on Chicago she is reading, there are books on Ireland, Santa Fe, London, San De Pedro, Mexico City, La Serena, and Egypt. These are sites of other adventures of the gang, most of which were in movies.
• Daphne reveals she's in love with Fred to a less than surprised Velma. This has been alluded to on-and-off since Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (and unofficially before that since the Johnny Bravo crossover episode, Bravo Dooby-Doo).
• Movie star Brad Adams, from the previous film, is sitting in the audience at the Talent Star finale.

Notes/trivia

• The trailer uses Anarbor's cover of the What's New, Scooby-Doo? theme song featured in the montage sequence at the end of Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, but this is absent from the film itself.
• Fred is revealed to sleep with a net.
• It premiered on Cartoon Network on August 10, 2013 in Scooby-Doo! Back to School Marathon (August 10-11, 2013).

Cultural references

• The film combines elements of both America's Got Talent, (and other similar talent shows), and Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel The Phantom of the Opera, as well as its film and musical adaptations.
  • Notable references to The Phantom of the Opera include:
    • A "Phantom" terrorizes an opera house. In Stage Fright the opera house becomes a disco house, and then a general theatre. Both are terrorized.
    • The Phantom wants Christine to "win". In the original, it's the position of Prima Donna. In Stage Fright, it's Talent Star.
    • The Phantom sabotages Christine's main competition, a more experienced singer/diva named Carlotta, by switching her throat spray with an identical bottle filled with a throat irritant, causing Carlotta to lose her voice.
    • The destruction of the disco ball is a reference to the infamous chandelier scene in the original.
    • Both the Phantom from the original version and the original Phantom live under the opera house, in the sewers, with a working organ, which they both play. They both have expert knowledge about the opera house, especially the secret passageways.
    • The scene where someone appears to be hanging, (until the lights are turned on and it is revealed only to be the Great Pauldini, stuck in one of his tricks and very much alive), is a reference to the original, where the Phantom murders a stagehand by strangulation, and then hangs his body from the rafters.
• The first piece played by Emma Gale is Movement 1. "Allegro non molto" from Vivaldi's Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, "L'inverno", commonly known as "Winter", from his famous violin concerto set known as "The Four Seasons". Neither of Emma's pieces are listed in the credits.
• The Great Pauldini's name is a reference to Harry Houdini and possibly to writer Paul Dini, who's married to magician Misty Lee, and wrote a series starring the magician-themed DC character Zatanna.
• The internet search engine Velma uses, is called, "Giggle", a play on "Google".
• The Soap Diamond and the Sponge of Turin are references to the famous Hope Diamond and the Shroud of Turin, respectively.
• Dewey Ottoman's car and crazy driving may be a reference to the famous villain, Cruella De Ville, from the Disney movie 101 Dalmatians.
• A jewelry store has an image with "H-B" at the front, a reference to the animation company, Hanna-Barbera.

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches

• During the chase between the gang (in the Mystery Machine) and Dewey Ottoman (in his car) to take the Soap Diamond, Dewey's hands change often from skin color to green, as if he was wearing his Phantom disguise gloves.
• At some point, the Phantom's hair is green.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• It is never explained how the Phantom disappeared in the cloud of smoke in front of Shaggy and Scooby after Fred threw the net down on him from his hotel window.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Greek	Scooby-Doo! Τρόμος στο Θέατρο	Scooby-Doo! Terror at the Theater
Hungarian	Scooby-Doo és az operaház fantomjai	Scooby-Doo and the Phantoms of the Opera House

Home media

• Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright DVD released by Warner Home Video on August 20, 2013.
• Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright Blu-ray Disc/DVD combo released by on Warner Home Video on August 20, 2013.

Quotes

Fred: You can't just audition the day before finals. Shaggy: Like, you can if you're awesome!

Gallery

Videos

Scooby-Doo!Stage Fright - Trailer

Images

Blu-ray/DVD combo

DVD

External links

• Buy at iTunes (US)