Come and party with Squonk Opera on Friday May 22nd at 8:00 pm at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room for the Galaxy Premiere of Astro-rama!
Astro-rama is a joyous large scale outdoor event that unifies an audience in creating humanity’s message for far-flung galaxies. The show features live music, dynamic video, 3 stories of scaffolding, a 40' radio telescope, cherry pickers, scissor lifts and a giant robot. Astro-rama was filmed over 2 chilly nights in October 2008 at Pittsburgh's Schenley Plaza.
Astro-rama premiere and party with the Squonkers. Friday, May 22, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. for $25 Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room 477 Melwood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
What people have been whispering about is TRUE! Strange sightings… Unexplained phenomena. . . scientific anomalies… Squonk Opera will be responding to the cover-ups with… ASTRO - RAMA!
With 3 stories of scaffolding and a 40 ft radio telescope, Squonk Opera will take you on a wild visual and musical celebration of the universe and our place in it.
Part symphony, part cacophony, Astro-Rama dares to go where no multi-media/theater/performance group has gone before.
Rising in scissor lift platforms and cherry pickers, Squonk will compose a proud message from our species, power up and transmit.
Stand with us, and the truth will be revealed.
Pittsburgh, PA at Schenley Plaza, Oakland October 15-18, 2008
Weather permitting, all broadcasts begin at 8:00 p.m., are outdoors and are FREE for all bipedal primates!
Pandora's Box is proud to participate in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. Please join us for the auditions! July 26 & 27 Requirements: 2 minute non-classical monolgue & headshot/resume if available. *Walk-in spots available. Call (412) 881-6888 to schedule.
What do you give a city that has everything? Why not its own opera! Help kick off the 250th birthday year of the 'burgh with the return of Squonk Opera's roast/toast of the formerly smoky city in a little show we call Pittsburgh: The Opera! We debuted this show in June of 2006 and sold out the run, so we're bringing it back for 4 shows only, January 17-20 at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty (or Eastside as some people like to call it). Since the last run of Pittsburgh: The Opera, we’ve done operas for Baltimore, St Louis, Albany, College Park, Columbia, Chester County and South Orange as part of our touring series (put your hometown's name here): The Opera. But none of them compare to Pittsburgh. So redd up your room, grab your terrible towel and tap your inner yinzer for a rollicking good time with all of the other jagoffs. Yinz better be there!
Thursday, January 17 at 8 pm Friday, January 18 at 8 pm Saturday, January 19 at 8 pm Sunday, January 20 at 3 pm
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater 5941 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Tickets: $12 in advance $15 at door general admission $8 students, seniors $10 groups of 10 or more (all group sales must be in advance)
Available at the door or from ProArts Tickets via telephone at 412.394.3353 or secure website www.proartstickets.org
For more information about Squonk Opera or to see scenes from Pittsburgh: The Opera visit www.squonkopera.org
"In order to be really hip, you can’t have any notion of being hip. And that’s what Pittsburgh is. No one thinks this place is hip. So, it is the hippest place on earth!” -Rick Sebak from Pittsburgh: The Opera
Pandora's Box Theatre's Comments
May 7 2009 1:27 AM
Come and party with Squonk Opera on Friday May 22nd at 8:00 pm
at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room for
the Galaxy Premiere of Astro-rama!
Astro-rama is a joyous large scale outdoor event that unifies an audience in
creating humanity’s message for far-flung galaxies.
The show features live music, dynamic video, 3 stories of scaffolding, a 40' radio telescope,
cherry pickers, scissor lifts and a giant robot.
Astro-rama was filmed over 2 chilly nights in October 2008 at Pittsburgh's Schenley Plaza.
Astro-rama premiere and party with the Squonkers.
Friday, May 22, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. for $25
Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room
477 Melwood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
To purchase tickets go to http://www.squonkopera.org/Astro-Movie-Page.html
Cash only tickets are also available at the door.
Thanks to our generous sponsors…
Café Zao, Big Burrito, Dozen, Vanilla Pastry Studio, Lendable Linens, The Videohouse, Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Additional screening:
Saturday May 23rd at 8:00 pm for $5 – movie plus artist Q&A
“The brainy, bold music-and-performance ensemble is once again daring to go where no performance art has gone before”
- Washington Post
“a roman candle, one that happens to come with a rhythm section.”
- City Paper
“The Biggest, Baddest, Boldest Squonk Opera Yet”
- Pop City
“an American, terrestrial and perhaps galaxy original...a unique mix of geek and polish, eccentric design and mocking wit”
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“hybridizer of art rock and performance, and expert at blending surrealism, high camp and careful craft for the masses”
- City Paper
Hope to see you there!
P.S. Astro-rama has just been chosen as one of three finalists for the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council's Work of Art Awards
http://squonkopera.org
Oct 9 2008 2:54 AM
What people have been whispering about is TRUE!
Strange sightings… Unexplained phenomena. . . scientific anomalies…
Squonk Opera will be responding to the cover-ups with…
ASTRO - RAMA!
With 3 stories of scaffolding and a 40 ft radio telescope,
Squonk Opera will take you on a wild visual and musical celebration of the universe and our place in it.
Part symphony, part cacophony, Astro-Rama dares to go where no
multi-media/theater/performance group has gone before.
Rising in scissor lift platforms and cherry pickers, Squonk will compose a proud message from our species,
power up and transmit.
Stand with us, and the truth will be revealed.
Pittsburgh, PA
at Schenley Plaza, Oakland
October 15-18, 2008
Weather permitting, all broadcasts begin at 8:00 p.m.,
are outdoors and are FREE for all bipedal primates!
More info at- www. squonkopera. org
Aug 5 2008 1:45 AM
Jul 12 2008 4:11 PM
Jul 11 2008 11:42 PM
Please join us for the auditions!
July 26 & 27
Requirements: 2 minute non-classical monolgue & headshot/resume if available.
*Walk-in spots available.
Call (412) 881-6888 to schedule.
Mar 4 2008 10:40 PM
A PLAY ABOUT A MAN AND HIS CLONES
By Caryl Churchill
March 6 - April 6
"A terrifying glimpse of the future... it makes Brave New World look tame."
-- The Sunday Times, London
26 or younger? Tickets only $15
Visit http://www. ppt. org/content/showstickets. cfm?showId=12 for more information.
Feb 18 2008 2:58 PM
Jan 7 2008 7:51 PM
What do you give a city that has everything? Why not its own opera!
Help kick off the 250th birthday year of the 'burgh with the return of
Squonk Opera's roast/toast of the formerly smoky city in a little show we call
Pittsburgh: The Opera!
We debuted this show in June of 2006 and sold out the run, so we're bringing it back for 4 shows only, January 17-20 at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty (or Eastside as some people like to call it).
Since the last run of Pittsburgh: The Opera, we’ve done operas for Baltimore,
St Louis, Albany, College Park, Columbia, Chester County and South Orange as part of our touring series (put your hometown's name here): The Opera.
But none of them compare to Pittsburgh.
So redd up your room, grab your terrible towel and tap your inner yinzer for a rollicking good time with all of the other jagoffs.
Yinz better be there!
Thursday, January 17 at 8 pm
Friday, January 18 at 8 pm
Saturday, January 19 at 8 pm
Sunday, January 20 at 3 pm
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater
5941 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Tickets:
$12 in advance
$15 at door general admission
$8 students, seniors
$10 groups of 10 or more (all group sales must be in advance)
Available at the door or from ProArts Tickets via telephone at 412.394.3353 or secure website www.proartstickets.org
For more information about Squonk Opera or to see scenes from Pittsburgh: The Opera visit www.squonkopera.org
"In order to be really hip, you can’t have any notion of being hip. And that’s what Pittsburgh is. No one thinks this place is hip. So, it is the hippest place on earth!” -Rick Sebak from Pittsburgh: The Opera
Aug 3 2007 8:47 PM
Jul 22 2007 8:45 PM
watch for upcoming performances!
Jul 16 2007 7:48 PM
thanks for the add!
Pittsburgh
Art Shows for Rick Byerly
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Jul 11 2007 3:56 AM
~felix
Jul 9 2007 1:49 AM