HALLOWEEN in MARCH at The Orphanage
For years, this South side gallery gem known as "The Orphanage" has been host to artists of all media and performance, regularly featuring showcases every Sunday in it’s spacious gallery. This March, the Orphanage acknowledges it being halfway to Halloween with this month long tribute to world’s greatest play day. Chicago’s own "Annual Halloween Art Exhibit" will bring the best of its national showcase of Halloween Art to haunt the house and horrify the halls. Well known spooky artists include: Scott Jackson (Megadeth, Rock’n’Roll comics), Chad Savage (Sinister Visions), JoJo Baby (Clive Barker documentary), Eric Pigors (Toxic Toons, Disney), Dan Brereton (Nocturnals) along with top & upcoming talents from all over the country.
Open Sunday, March 8, 7:00 pm – Midnight.
For full details, visit http://www.theorphanagechicago.org/030809.html
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Music Box Midnight Movie : POULTRYGEIST!
Lloyd Kaufman hosts Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead at the Music Box Theatre Midnight Movie.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is cinema’s first chicken-zombie horror-comedy… with musical numbers!
When well-meaning but somewhat dim Arbie (Jason Yachanin) returns to the spot of his first (and only) romantic encounter with his high school sweetheart– the not-so-romantic Ancient Tromahawk Tribe Indian Burial Ground– he is shocked to discover two horrible realities:
Not only has the graveyard been bulldozed to make room for the newest fast-food “American Chicken Bunker” chain restaurant, but after only one semester at college, his girlfriend Wendy (Kate Graham) has been transformed into a left-wing, lipstick-lesbian liberal, and spends her free time protesting the corporate takeover of America.
Reeling from heartbreak and a brutal beating from Micki (Allyson Sereboff), Wendy’s new activist girlfriend, Arbie channels his spite into applying for a job at the very restaurant they are protesting against.
But something else is feeling wronged by all of the construction and commotion… Something not human…
Meanwhile, newly employed Arbie’s new coworkers are a colorful group: the sassy manager Denny (Joshua Olatunde); the burqa-clad Muslim, Humus (Rose Ghavami); the animal-loving yokel Carl, Jr. (Caleb Emerson); the effete Mexican spitfire Paco Bell (Khalid Rivera); and a mysterious 60-year-old man who has been working in fast-food all his life (Lloyd Kaufman).
Together, they slowly uncover the supernatural secret of the American Chicken Bunker, while the owner General Lee Roy (Robin L. Watkins) tries to keep a lid on everything, lest the scandal taint his growing empire. But once workers and customers start dying in bizarre and grotesque ways, it becomes clear that this isn’t just a mild case of salmonella … but something much more FOWL.
Will Arbie and his friends stop the supernatural before they infect all the artificial food stuffs, the customers or even the world? Will Arbie be able to win Wendy back now that he’s making minimum-wage? What’s Carl Jr. doing with that frozen chicken? And what’s with all the singing and dancing?
It’s Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead!
Midnight
The Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave Chicago, IL 60613
http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/midnight/
Music Box Midnight Movie : POULTRYGEIST!
Lloyd Kaufman hosts Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead at the Music Box Theatre Midnight Movie.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is cinema’s first chicken-zombie horror-comedy… with musical numbers!
When well-meaning but somewhat dim Arbie (Jason Yachanin) returns to the spot of his first (and only) romantic encounter with his high school sweetheart– the not-so-romantic Ancient Tromahawk Tribe Indian Burial Ground– he is shocked to discover two horrible realities:
Not only has the graveyard been bulldozed to make room for the newest fast-food “American Chicken Bunker” chain restaurant, but after only one semester at college, his girlfriend Wendy (Kate Graham) has been transformed into a left-wing, lipstick-lesbian liberal, and spends her free time protesting the corporate takeover of America.
Reeling from heartbreak and a brutal beating from Micki (Allyson Sereboff), Wendy’s new activist girlfriend, Arbie channels his spite into applying for a job at the very restaurant they are protesting against.
But something else is feeling wronged by all of the construction and commotion… Something not human…
Meanwhile, newly employed Arbie’s new coworkers are a colorful group: the sassy manager Denny (Joshua Olatunde); the burqa-clad Muslim, Humus (Rose Ghavami); the animal-loving yokel Carl, Jr. (Caleb Emerson); the effete Mexican spitfire Paco Bell (Khalid Rivera); and a mysterious 60-year-old man who has been working in fast-food all his life (Lloyd Kaufman).
Together, they slowly uncover the supernatural secret of the American Chicken Bunker, while the owner General Lee Roy (Robin L. Watkins) tries to keep a lid on everything, lest the scandal taint his growing empire. But once workers and customers start dying in bizarre and grotesque ways, it becomes clear that this isn’t just a mild case of salmonella … but something much more FOWL.
Will Arbie and his friends stop the supernatural before they infect all the artificial food stuffs, the customers or even the world? Will Arbie be able to win Wendy back now that he’s making minimum-wage? What’s Carl Jr. doing with that frozen chicken? And what’s with all the singing and dancing?
It’s Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead!
Midnight
The Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave Chicago, IL 60613
http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/midnight/
WildClaw Theatre presents Zombie Bowling
WildClaw Theatre’s Proudly Presents
Zombie Bowling
A Benefit for the Midwest premiere of “The Revenants”.
Chicago, IL—February 20, 2009—WildClaw Theatre Company proudly announces Zombie Bowling, Saturday March 14th, at 9:00pm, at the Timber Lanes, 1851 W. Irving Park, Chicago. Admission to this evening of bowling and brains is $20 in advance/$25 at the door. You provide the zombie or the victim, we provide the shoes and the bowling. Tickets are limited so buy your tickets today at www.wildclawtheatre.com.
For $5 extra you can get zombiefied by WildClaw! Undead America Founder and Zombie Engineer, Aly Renee Greaves will be heading up a team of gruesome makeup specialists on site to transmogrify you.
The folks who brought you DEATHSCRIBE, The Great God Pan, and H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dreams In The Witch House, present an evening of bowling and fun like nothing you have witnessed before.
Featuring:
-The Horror Queen Scream-off!
-Zombie-oke!
-The Ultimate Horror Movie Trivia Contest!
-Zombie Beauty Pageant!
-Raffles with prizes!
This promises to be an evening of shambling, bowling, drinking, macabre mastication, reanimation, yet more shambling, brain-eating fun that you won’t want to miss
Proceeds from this benefit will go directly towards WildClaw Theatre’s production of Scott T. Barsotti’s The Revenants, directed by Anne Adams, opening April 20th at the Angel Island Theatre in Chicago.
Timber Lanes is near all forms of public transportation and is wheelchair accessible. Neighborhood parking near the Timber Lanes is limited. Please allow extra time when arriving by car.
To interview any WildClaw company members concerning Zombie Bowling or The Revenants, please contact Brian Amidei at (773)220-1258.
Leave a Comment Go to Post...Music Box Midnight Movie : REPO! The Genetic Opera
Steven Spielberg, 1971, 90m
Darren Lynn Bousman, 2008, 98m
Begun in 2002 as a Los Angeles stage production by writers Darren Smith and Terrence Zdunich, REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA was designed as a gory, comedic Grand Guignol to appeal more to club goers than fans of musical theater. Shadowcast by 90 Day Delinquents.
Midnight
The Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave Chicago, IL 60613
http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/midnight/
