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| From | "Ray" <fmsorigray@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Firesign Theatre re-creation |
| Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:24:20 -0500 |
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Found this on a newsgroup and thought a few folks might be interested....
Ray
Subject: Firesign Theatre on CNN Ticker OT
About 9AM PT 12-12-03 Firesign Theatre on CNN Ticker (bottom of screen)
paraphrased:
Fabled Firesign Theatre to recreate comedy at UCLA April 1, 2004 [then a
list
of some guest performers]
Let's Eat: Feasting on the Firesign Theatre
America's Bravest Thespians and Troubadours Perform the Audio-Plays of the
Firesign Theatre
Thursday, April 1, 2004 at 8pm
UCLA Royce Hall http://www.ucla.edu/
Tickets: $40, 30, 20
($17 students)
Hal Willner, Artist in Residence
Cast: John Goodman, Brad Hall, Howard Hesseman, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Nelson
Lyon, Chloe Webb
Musical Guests: Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Ralph Carney, Todd Rundgren,
David
Thomas of Pere Ubu, Steve Weisberg's "kind of" Big Band...and other special
guests!
The Firesign Theatre was and remains anarchic melodrama written and
wonderfully
performed by one of the greatest gangs of four ever; Philip Proctor, David
Ossman, Philip Austin and Peter Bergman. The four Firesign records made
between 1968 and 1971 (Don't Crush That Dwarf, How Can You Be in Two Places
at Once?, I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus and Waiting for the
Electrician), conceived as radio theater for the psychedelic era, constitute
a dazzling comic epic whose plots and sub-plots are still scrutinized,
memorized and revered by legions across "this great country about which
we're singing about". From the mind of Hal Willner, who created the now
legendary Harry Smith Project and Halloween evenings in Royce Hall, comes
Lets Eat..., sequences from Firesign's famed recordings performed by a
kaleidoscopic cast of actors, singers, writers, zealots all, accompanied by
onstage sound effects and musical flourishes. Among the evening's guests:
Ralph Spoilsport, George Leroy Tirebiter, Nick Danger, Rocky Rococo, Nancy,
Pico & Alvarado and a Bozo named Barney.!
Lineup subject to change
Produced by Hal Willner and Janine Nichols
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