The Firesign Theatre Comes To Whidbey Island Center for the Arts

The Firesign Theatre, comedy's legendary quartet, will appear at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts January 8 - 9, 2010.

Their 21st century CD Trilogy, "We're Doomed," received Grammy nominations for "Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death" and "Bride of Firesign." The Library of Congress added "Don't Crush That Dwarf" to their highly selective recorded archives. Firesign's many hours of live radio broadcasts and rare movies are now carefully restored collector's items. The group has recently been profiled in two coffee-table books on The Sixties when, according to LIFE magazine, Firesign were "the favorite comics of the Rock Age."

The first act weaves together two favorites, "Waiting For The Electrician" and "Don't Crush That Dwarf" - existential tales of border-crossing, channel switching and selling-out. The second act allows the "Nick Danger" cast (Rocky, Bradshaw, Catherwood) to riff, improvise and spoof the ageless radio dick, Nick Danger, Third Eye.

Also on the bill are Ben Bland's Movie Matinee, School Lunch Menus, Ralph Spoilsport, All-Star Crowley and Shakespeare's Lost Comedie, "Anythynge You Want To." The Firesign's full-length iambic farce, in development for forty years, will get a cruelly shortened reading, in styles ranging from pure coarse acting to sincere imitations of ancient movie stars and starlets. (The text will be published later in 2010, with extensive notes, introductions and appendices.)

Audiences have always called out certain memorable Firesign lines during the show and sometimes participated in costume. In return for their affection, the quartet will gather in the lobby afterwards to meet The Playgoers and sign autographs.

Learn more HERE: http://www.wicaonline.com/2009-2010/SPECIAL%20EVENTS/FIRESIGN.html

Jan 08 - 09
Fri @ 7.30pm
Sat @ 7.30pm

TICKETS
all seats $35

RUSH (30 minutes before curtain)
youth $25

360/221.8268 or 800/638.7631

 

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