1) Dane Cook performs at Philips Arena.
2) Corndogorama returns to East Atlanta Village.
3) Richard Blais gives a cooking demonstration at Variety Playhouse.
4) Woodruff Arts Center hosts STIR (Sounds Through Ideas and Rhymes).
3) Dad’s Garage Theatre stages Beach Blanket Improv.
(Photo by Tony Duran)
1) Carnivores play 529.
2) 12 opens at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.
3) The Black Kids play the Loft.
4) M.W. Moore discusses An About Face at Outwrite.
5) Scandal! Under the Big Top opens at Dad’s Garage.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
1) San Serac and Wilderness play the Earl.
2) Invasion: Christmas Carol continues at Dad’s Garage Theatre.
3) Milk continues in area theaters.
4) Atlanta Wind Symphony performs at Roswell Cultural Arts Center.
5) Twinhead Theater finishes its final performance of Choose Your Adventure: The Play at Eyedrum.
(Photo by Michaelann Zimmerman)
Today’s Air Loaf features Max Arbes and CL’s Curt Holman chatting about plays around town that are sure to get you in the Halloween spirit, including The Ghastly Dreadfuls II at the Center for Puppetry Arts and Monster Movie at Dad’s Garage Theatre.
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It’s not surprising that Dad’s Garage Theatre would want to revisit Cannibal! The Musical. A decade ago, the company’s original adaptation of the no-budget musical by “South Park” co-creator Trey Parker helped put the fledgling Inman Park playhouse on the map. Cannibal! debuted opposite the Alliance Theatre’s Broadway-bound Elton John musical Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida (subsequently shortened to just Aida), and The New York Times Magazine ran a wry little info box about the two shows. One of Cannibal’s characters even played with a pyramid-shaped toy, in a shout-out to Aida’s famously glitchy mechanical pyramid.
The program for Dad’s 10th anniversary remount of Cannibal! The Musical says that the original adaptation by Sean Daniels and Matthew Stanton has been further adapted by Mike Katinsky and George Faughnan, the show’s director. I saw the new Cannibal! Saturday night and it struck me as drastically different. There’s an all-new cast, a completely different set and different approach to the big laughs. In 1998, the Confederate war-veteran/Cyclops didn’t just squirt fluid from his empty eye socket, he doused a “splash zone” of people in the audience. The new Cannibal! keeps its fluids onstage, mostly.
1) Comedian Louis C.K. comes to the Tabernacle.
2) Start your day with Balance Yoga.
3) Dad’s Garage Theatre performs Cannibal! The Musical.
4) Eat, drink and watch “Firefly” at Java Lords.
5) Tour the Sweetwater Brewery while checking out the distinct brews of 420, Hummer, Blue and others.
(Photo courtesy Louis C.K.)
