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21 August 2004

BUMBERSHOOT ANNOUNCES NEW REGIONAL THEATRE SHOWCASE
PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THEATRE PUGET SOUND

SEATTLE - Bumbershoot®, the Seattle Arts Festival announces it's 2004 showcase of regional theatre groups including comedies, dramas, musicals, theater for youth, performance art, radio plays and late night theater. The regional theater sampler is produced and curated in partnership with Theatre Puget Sound (TPS) and will take place September 4 - 6 at the Theatre Puget Sound Center House Theatre Stage.

The lineup for the Theatre Puget Sound stage includes:
  Annex Theatre "Verbatim"
  Sarah Rudinoff "Go There"
  Ursa Major Theatre "How to Be Cool"
  The Baggy Pants "The Case of the Vanishing Crown Jewel: A Ziplock Holmes Mystery "
  Carlotta’s Late Night Wing Ding "Carlotta’s Bumbershoot Wing Ding"
  Pork Filled Players "Red, Pork, & Blue "
  Cha Davis "The Rube Goldberg Variations"
     

The location of the Theatre Puget Sound Stage is on the 1st floor of the Seattle Center
in the Center House Theatre.
     

Bumbershoot will transform the 74 acre Seattle Center into more than 20 stages and exhibit spaces and present the talents and labors of over 2,500 artists for four days: September 3-6.

Along with hundreds of national and regional musicians of almost every genre, Bumbershoot offers a wide variety of arts and artists, including the 1 Reel Film Festival which screens over 120 short films throughout the weekend, a first-class comedy festival, an uproarious poetry slam, a dozen contemporary art exhibits, zine-making workshops, kids programming, circus artists, hiphop dance and much more.

Tickets to Bumbershoot, which include admission to all Bumbershoot programs on a firstcome, first-served basis, are just $15 per day if purchased before August 27 ($20 per day after 8/27). Two-day passes are $28 ($35 after 8/27) and four-day passes, good for the whole festival, are just $55.

Discounted tickets & passes are on sale now online at www.bumbershoot.org.

Theatre Puget Sound Stage Schedule & Information

S A T U R D A Y, s e p t e m b e r  3

3-4 pm
Annex Theatre presents
Verbatim

“a complex and moving portrait of how work reflects, confines, and represents who we are and how the world sees us.” – The Stranger

A documentary theatre piece about work developed from interviews with Puget Sound area residents. A cast of six actors performs over 20 characters which include a pair of teenage Krispy Kreme workers, a card dealer, a cab driver, an escort, and a chorus of dot-com workers.

The stories have been extensively edited and interwoven to heighten the development of themes, and to provide a variety of tone and rhythm. A housecleaner recounts the horrible discovery of child abuse in an affluent Eastside household. A security manager shares his retirement dream. A church musician recalls a particularly outrageous funeral service. The interview subjects not only describe what they do, but also why, and how they feel as a result.

 

5 – 6:30 pm
Sarah Rudinoff’s
Go There

“the best one-person show this side of ever” - The Stranger

“a showcase for Rudinoff’s fearsome talent, she simply cannot open her mouth without spewing razzle-dazzle all over the stage.” - Seattle Weekly

Go There is an adventurous solo play with live music written by Seattle singer, and actress Sarah Rudinoff. Rudinoff is best known in Seattle for playing Yitzhak in Seattle’s beloved production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.Go There wrestles with the strange longing for Hollywood and celebrity, the promises of the Big Apple, and lands in the psyche of a woman trying to find out where she should finally go, and who she should pretend to be when she gets there. The play is a musical extravaganza, with Chris Jeffries on piano and Rick Miller on guitar, the show integrates music from Thelonius Monk to Disney.

7-8pm
Ursa Major Theatre presents
How to be Cool

"How To Be Cool" is educational and entertaining, a combination that is, unequivocally, pretty cool. — Tina Potterf, Seattle Times

An original comedy about music, monkeys, and the Culture of Cool.

It’s 1962, and the students at Oakvale High School are getting more than they could have imagined today during their Civics Class. So’s the Civics teacher, as she hands the proceedings over to Eugene Wright, a man who’s so filled with thoughts about the future, politics, ethics, and consumer culture that he can scarcely contain himself. He plays records. (Your records! Bring your own LPs and 45s!) He shows slides. He tells stories. And though he sure doesn’t look cool, he just might be onto something.

S U N D A Y, S E P T E M B E R  4

Sunday 2:30 – 3:45pm
The Baggy Pants presents
The Case of the Vanishing Crown Jewel: A Ziplock Holmes Mystery

From the creators of Is this Your Duck?, a 2001 Seattle Fringe festival sellout; The Red Nose, and Have You Seen My Dog? comes the latest in their line of silliness. The Baggy Pants present The Case of the Vanishing Crown Jewel: A Ziplock Holmes Mystery.

The Crown Jewel has vanished leaving the Magical Mr. Fuzzy distraught. He sends for the great detective Ziplock Holmes and his trusty sidekick. They travel across the globe to help solve the mystery. Will they find the crown jewel? Will they catch the culprit? Will there be duels, dastardly deeds, and derring-do?

4:30 – 6:00pm
Sarah Rudinoff’s
Go There

See Description Saturday, September 3rd

Sunday 6:45 – 7:45pm
Carlotta’s Late Night Wing Ding presents
Carlotta’s Bumbershoot Wing Ding

Seattle’s favorite late night phenomenon, Carlotta’s Late Night Wing Ding has been entertaining Seattle late night audiences for seven years with their Southern Fried Genius!

Carlotta Sue Philpott wants to culture herself. A 65-year-old former resident of Midway, Tennessee, Carlotta’s long and sometimes difficult career has taken her from the He-Haw Museum (souvenir shop) to the KMart Cafeteria (gravy-on-your-meat woman), and finally to her present job at the Value Village thrift shop (pricing and sorting department). But the time has come for her to broaden her horizons! So, with the help of her neighbor Randy Scarinelli, and other friends (including a “Mexican” gentleman named Salvador, originally hired to work on her bathroom tile floor), she takes the most exciting step of her life – she starts her own arts interview show.

Now, Carlotta invites the whole city into her living room every weekend for arts, culture, interviews, mishaps, and the latest from her own life, from helpful cooking demonstrations (homemade tortillas no cooking required, just some wonder-bread and a rolling pin) to holiday-themed poems and musical numbers.

M O N D A Y, S E P T E M B E R  5

Monday 3 – 4pm
Pork Filled Players
Red, Pork & Blue

Political Sketch Comedy

“Fizzy frenzy of irreverence is a squeal” - Seattle-PI

Politics is a dirty game, and PFP plays hard! PFP aims their satirical weapon of mass destruction at the presidential election, Kim Jong II, civil disobedience, and more; leaving no federal deficits unfilled and no Afghani cave unsearched. Nothing is sacred!

 

 

 

 

Monday 4:45 – 5:30 pm
Cha Davis
The Rube Goldberg Variations

The story of a changeling from 50's bomb-blasted Nevada trailer parks, to the 70's gay guerilla group, Ze Whiz Kidz, and all of the shiny mountains of beer bottles, teepees and strip joints in between. The story is told in 10 chapters, each contained within a popular song, in a technique called Colonized Orchestration (as opposed to kareoke, the definition of which is Empty Orchestra).

 

 

 

Monday 6 – 7pm
Carlotta’s Late Night Wing Ding presents
Carlotta’s Bumbershoot Wing Ding

See Description Sunday, September 2nd