'MythBusters: Behind the Myths' Starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Makes Their Segerstrom Center Debut November 23, 2013
By: Robert Diamond Sep. 28, 2013
The all-new live show "MythBusters: Behind the Myths," starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series MythBusters, will debut at Segerstrom Center for the Arts for one performance only on November 23 at 7:30 p.m. Single tickets, which start at $60, will go on sale Friday, October 4 at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets will be available online at SCFTA.org, at the Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling (714) 556-2787. For inquiries about group ticket savings for 10 or more, call the Group Services office at (714) 755-0236. The TTY number is (714) 556-2746.
"MythBusters: Behind the Myths," presents a fantastical evening of on-stage experiments, audience participation, rocking video and behind-the-scenes stories. With this show, for the first time, fans join Hyneman and Savage on stage and assist in their mind-blowing and mind-twisting approach to science.
"MythBusters: Behind the Myths" brings you face-to-face with the curious world of Hyneman and Savage as the duo match wits on stage with each other and members of the audience. Last winter and spring, the show performed a 28-city national tour playing sold out performances all over the country.
One of the Discovery Channel's most highly regarded and watched series, MythBusters is now in its tenth season. Co-hosted by Hyneman and Savage, MythBusters mixes scientific method with gleeful curiosity and plain old-fashioned ingenuity to create its own signature style of explosive experimentation - and the supporting or de-bunking of urban myths that we live with day to day.
Hyneman and Savage have become spokesmen at large for applying science to real life - most recently as hosts of the Discovery Channel special iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World, and have appeared on numerous shows including Late Show with David Letterman, Good Morning America, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Colbert Report, NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, Countdown with Keith Olberman and many more. They were invited to participate in Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Fear and/or Sanity and have received the Young Artist Award for inspiring young people in the interest of science. MythBusters has been invited to participate on a panel at Comic-Con, where their appearances have sold out four years running.
Hyneman and Savage serve as guest editors for Popular Mechanics and were featured on the cover of the September 2009 issue. That same year, they were inducted as honorary members into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. They are honorary lifetime members of the California Science Teachers Association and were named honorary engineers and honorary members of the Francis Crowe Society at the University of Maine. Hyneman and Savage were given honorary doctorates at the University of Twente in the Netherlands for their efforts at popularization of science.
Hyneman and Savage produced and starred in an H1N1 public service announcement for the White House, and were chosen by the President to retest the Archimedes legend using 500 schoolchildren as surrogate soldiers.
They appeared as themselves in the movie Darwin Awards and have made several cameos on other TV shows, including CSI. And in 2010, Hyneman and Savage received the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Secular Society.
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