Under St Mark's St. Presents Sci Fi Musicals Night! 12/10
By: Gabrielle Sierra Nov. 28, 2008
Horse Trade Theater Group presents:
Sci Fi Screening Room: Sci Fi Musicals Night! at UNDER St. Mark's 94 St. Mark's Place, btw 1st Ave and Avenue A
L train to 1st Ave, F/V to 2nd Ave, N, R, W train to 8th St, 6 train to Astor Pl.
Wednesday, December 10th @ 7:00 PM $7
Sci Fi Screening Room is a monthly showcase of off-beat sci-fi videos, featuring a variety of cult classics, bootleg favorites and TV rarities. Previous events including Batman Night! and Kiss Night! have been named as a Voice Choice, Time Out NY Best Bet, Gothamist pick and highlighted in the New York Times' Urban Eye.
December's show is a collection of songs and clips from sci-fi musicals, from Phantom of the Paradise to Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. The evening will celebrate the most mind-boggling numbers from campy favorites such as Forbidden Zone (1980) and Xanadu (1980), to lesser-know films like the Alan Arkin superhero parody The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) and Grease-meets-Swamp Thing oddityVoyage of the Rock Aliens (1987).
The two-hour video variety show will also include trivia, sing-alongs and TV clips from the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special and the obscure Star Wars-themed episode of The Donnie and Marie Show.
Kevin Maher (American Movie Classics The Sci Fi Department) and Raven Snook (Time Out New York) co-host the evening that promises to please geeks, gays and glitter hounds in equal measure.
KEVIN MAHER is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer whose work has been seen on Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, VH1 and HBO's This Just In. Last year, American Movie Classics hired Kevin to host THE SCI FI DEPARTMENT. He's becoming the Joe-Bob Briggs of his generation, taking an inside baseball approach to science-fiction films. See all the episodes here: www.ThisKevin.Blogspot.com
RAVEN SNOOK is a writer, performer, diva, and mom. As a journalist, she has contributed entertainment-related articles to Time Out, The Village Voice, the New York Post, TV Guide, AOL TV and Moviefone, New York Magazine's Web site and Heeb Magazine. As a performer, she has hosted myriad burlesque shows, including Starshine Burlesque, Red Hots Burlesque, The Hot Box Burlesque and Le Scandal, and also created the all-Jewish revue Kosher Chixx and all-moms Hot Mama Burlesque. Other performing highlights include acting in the original downtown run of Urinetown, playing a vampire on the ABC sitcom Talk to Me, appearing as a "female female impersonator" on The Maury Povich Show, playing a dominatrix-like self-help guru in the short film Slo-Mo, telling stories at The Moth and Heeb Storytelling, and her autobiographical one-woman show How I Became a Drag Queen Trapped in a Woman's Body.
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