Monday, October 20, 2008
Squonk Opera: Sci-Fi Rock Opera is Music to Alien Ears
I09: "You probably haven't been to the opera much recently, and I don't blame you — the works of Wagner and Mozart just don't seem to have enough in the way of blinking satellite transmissions, stern spaceship commanders, and crashed UFOs. A group of performance artists from Pittsburgh, however, is out to change that. They call themselves the Squonk Opera, and they've toured across the United States and in Canada, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Belgium; this weekend, they brought their new show 'Astro-rama' back to their hometown. Here's our gallery of their funky, jazzy, psychadelic, extraterrestrial romp."
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4 comments:
Ok, these guys look like a riot to go see. Like the Giant Satellite Dish in the background used as a projection screen.
I love the pictures io9 posted and I'm so sad I missed them! I still maintain that comic books and sci-fi are an untapped goldmine for theater (ignore the $40 million Spiderman and The Fly: The Opera) assuming someone can do it right. I really want to see Dr. Horrible as a stage production or The Middlemusical
This show looks visually amazing, and I do love weird theater. I'd definitely check this out if I got a chance.
I am INCREDIBLY interested in this. The opportunities for designers seems to be endless in a show of this caliber. I feel this is the kind of theater I would love to be thrown at in my career. I also think SQUONK is such an appropriate name for the company, almost as if you're blurting it out in some glutenous yelp. I'd like to see more of this.
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