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1) Don Dixon performs at Eddie’s Attic.
2) Virginia-Highland Summerfest wraps up its final day on Virginia Avenue.
3) Jim Breuer finishes his four-day stop at the Funny Farm.
4) Apache Café hosts FFX: Free Forum Exchange spoken-word open mic.
5) Atlanta Stage Write Productions presents the second annual 9 x 9 ‘08: Nine Plays by Nine Playwrights at Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center.
(Photo courtesy Don Dixon)
1) Comedian Margaret Cho performs at the Tabernacle for one night only.
2) Indie Craft Experience hosts “Lucky No. 7” at Centennial Olympic Park.
3) Little Five Points’ Five Spot hosts a solid bill including Feeding Fingers, Slow Motion Crash, Cinetrope and more.
4) A (new) Genre Landscape opens at Cyclorama in Grant Park.
5) ZZ Top performs at Chastain Park Amphitheatre with the Zac Brown Band.
(Photo by Austin Young)
1) The Dixie Bee-Liners play Eddie’s Attic with openers the Chapmans.
2) “Last Comic Standing” alum Gabriel Iglesias performs at the Punchline.
3) Theatre Decatur presents opening weekend of A … My Name Is Alice.
4) Battlestar Galactica goes down at Java Lords.
5) Django hosts Party with a Purpose, featuring art, music, and drink and dinner specials, to benefit the Artists for Charity Home in Ethiopia.
(Courtesy the Dixie Bee-Liners)
Dad’s Garage Theatre’s zombie musical Song of the Living Dead (written by Matt Horgan and Travis Sharp, with songs by Eric Frampton) has its world premiere on Fri., June 6. To give you a taste, the playhouse and Cougars Film Group have produced this trailer, and it’s probably the most effective Youtube-ready video clip I’ve ever seen for a new stage play. The actors include Gabriel Dean, Z Gillispie, Megan Leahy, Erin Lorette, Stephen Platinum, Gina Rickicki and George Faughnan (whose preacher song already looks like a classic):
My review of Kung Fu Panda has hit the internet — and so, too, has one of my favorite scenes from the surprisingly entertaining cartoon feature. The voices are provided by Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman, and it’ll probably make you hungry for dumplings. I recommend you watch the bigger, clearer image here, but this is good enough:
(It’s a lot better than the film’s music video for “Kung Fu Fighting,” Cee-Lo’s presence notwithstanding.)
To piggyback on David Lee’s post about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory showing at the Plaza Theatre this week, here’s my favorite Wonka-related mash-up video. It’s very short: the annoying “logo” clip that precedes it is about as long as the Wonka clip itself, which brings in the audio from one scary movie and the video from another.
Speaking of creepy takes on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, here’s a surprisingly persuasive version of the trailer as if it were a horror film: “The suspense is terrible … I hope it lasts.”
“Tamara,” 20071) Body/Text Project: Photos by Darren Saravis continues at Composition Gallery.
2) She Wants Revenge, Be Your Own Pet and the Virgin Switches perform at Variety Playhouse.
3) Cineprov! presents Sex in the City at Relapse Theatre.
4) Tim’m West hosts MondoHomo Hip-Hop at Lenny’s Bar.
5) The Roots and Erykah Badu perform at the Fox Theatre.
(Photo by Darren Saravis)
(Photo courtesy Nightporters)
1) Nightporters play Smith’s Olde Bar Saturday night with the Hot Rods and Johnny Hibbert.
2) Katt Williams brings his It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’ Tour to Philips Arena Saturday night.
3) SoCo Music Experience brings an all-day, free music fest to Centennial Olympic Park Saturday.
4) John Prine performs at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Saturday night.
5) Alliance Theatre hosts An Evening with Augusten Burroughs Sunday, featuring a discussion and book reading from A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father.
Riverdance calls it quits after 13 years with eight farewell shows at the Fox. (Photo © Joan Marcus)1) Riverdance continues its six-day run at the Fox Theatre.
2) Puppets take over the world for the 20th annual Xperimental Puppetry Night at Center for Puppetry Arts.
3) Carbonas play at Drunken Unicorn with opener Pinche Gringo.
4) Chris Bohjalian signs and discusses Double Blind at Decatur Library.
5) Collage and film exhibition The Beginning of Man in the Age of Disbelief, Anna Christine’s and Michael David Perkins’s exploration of the origins of man in the debate between science and religion, is at Art House for one night only.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (reviewed here) isn’t just the sequel to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe: it marks a kind of forgotten anniversary. The previous Narnia movie inspired “Saturday Night Live’s “Lazy Sunday,” which debuted on Dec. 17, 2005. The second “SNL Digital Short,” “Lazy Sunday” depicts Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg rapping like gangstas as they buy cupcakes and go to see Narnia:
Now quiet in the theater or it’s gonna get tragic.
We’re ’bout to get taken to a dreamworld of magic!
“Lazy Sunday’s” popularity effectively marked “Saturday Night Live’s” entry into the viral video age, and the venerable, 30-plus-year-old sketch comedy series proved unexpectedly ahead of the curve. “Lazy Sunday” led to countless imitators, including the Atlanta area’s own “Lazy Snellville.” Subsequent “SNL Digital Shorts” included Natalie Portman’s rap and “Dick in a Box.” Viral videos like these gave audiences a new destination for comedy on Youtube, and NBC’s (understandable) interest in controlling its creations led to the creation of Hulu as a Youtube alternative. It’s a surprise that it’s been two and a half years since “Lazy Sunday” appeared.
The question is, will Prince Caspian inspire a “Lazy Sunday” sequel? Steve Carell hosts the next new SNL episode on May 17.
