“it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE” Promo - Performance Artist John Fleck - Odyssey Theatre
“it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE” Promo - Performance Artist John Fleck - Odyssey Theatre
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Performance artist John Fleck’s satirical theatrical cabaret event ‘it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!’ set for 5-week world premiere at Odyssey
We’re deconstructing — yet again. Following a four-week workshop production last September, legendary performance artist John Fleck’s latest work will get a full, world premiere production in 2022. it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE, an outrageous musical satire that reflects on our national panic in the face of the pandemic, opens at the Odyssey Theatre on February 19, with performances continuing through March 20.
Developed with and directed by longtime Fleck collaborator David Schweizer, it’s alive, ITS ALIVE! is a rambunctious and provocative cabaret-style theatrical “performance event.” Joined onstage by music director John Snow on upright bass, Scott Peter on piano, and singer/dancers Kyle G. Fuller and Tomoko Karina, Fleck uses musical numbers, dance sequences and broad characters-in-conflict to create a hilarious and uniquely ribald theatrical rollercoaster that skewers our fears and assumptions about everything from COVID-19 to our identity as earth dwellers at this precarious moment.
“As this pandemic continues to evolve and hold us hostage, the show’s title feels ever more spot on,” says Schweizer. “We are taking a poor theater style open bare stage and launching an attack! Rather than letting whatever variant is rampaging at the moment get the better of us, we hope audiences will want to join us in making relentless fun of it, no matter what new contagious aspects emerge or new terrors await. We need to challenge where we are in our lives right now, and maybe the best challenge is a good laugh.”
Conceived, written and performed by Fleck and directed by Schweizer, the creative team also includes costume designer Ann Closs-Farley, lighting designer Katelan Braymer, sound designer Christopher Moscatiello and scenic consultant Chris Bell.
Proof of vaccination is required for admission. Masks, covering both mouth and nose, must be worn throughout the performance.
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John Fleck is an actor and performance artist most recently seen at the Odyssey in Blacktop Highway, “a gothic horror screenplay’d on one man’s body.” With an established acting career in theater, film and TV (he is one of only three actors to have starred in all incarnations of the modern Star Trek TV series in a variety of roles), Fleck is best known for creating larger, experimental pieces in performance spaces and museums. Fleck’s resistance to being pigeon-holed began in 1990 when he and three other performance artists — Karen Finley, Tim Miller and Holly Hughes — were labeled “obscene” by the likes of Senator Jesse Helms and Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who put pressure on the National Endowment for the Arts to rescind funding to the four artists, thus forever branding them the “NEA Four.” Their case went to the Supreme Court — and they won. Fleck’s award-winning and sometimes controversial self-scripted shows include: Mad Women, Side EFFlecks May Include, Nothin’ Beats Pussy, A Snowball’s Chance in Hell, Dirt, Blessed are all the Little Fishes, ‘ME’ Psycho Opera and I got the He-Be-She-Be’s.
Details for Calendar Listings
‘it’s alive, It’s Alive!’
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WHAT:
The world premiere of it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!, an outrageous musical satire that reflects on our national panic in the face of the pandemic, conceived and performed by legendary performance artist John Fleck (Blacktop Highway, Mad Women, NEA Four) and directed by Fleck’s longtime collaborator, David Schweizer. Joined onstage by music director John Snow on upright bass; Scott Peter on piano; and singer/dancers Kyle G. Fuller and Tomoko Karina, Fleck uses musical numbers, dance sequences and broad characters to create a hilarious and uniquely ribald theatrical rollercoaster that skewers our fears and assumptions about everything from COVID-19 to our identity as earth dwellers at this precarious moment.
WHO:
• Conceived, Written and Performed by John Fleck
• Directed by David Schweizer
• Music Direction by John Snow
• Also featuring Kyle G. Fuller and Tomoko Karina
• Musicians: John Snow on upright bass and Scott Roberts on piano
WHEN:
February 19 – March 20:
• Saturdays at 8 p.m.: February 19 (Opening Night), February 26, March 5, March 12, March 19
• Sundays at 5 p.m.: February 20, February 27, March 6, March 13, March 20
WHERE:
Odyssey Theatre
2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90025
HOW:
• (310) 477-2055 ext. 2 or https://odysseytheatre.com
TICKET PRICE:
$25
OTHER:
• Proof of vaccination required for admission.
• Masks, covering both mouth and nose, must be worn throughout the performance.
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