SACRED FOOLS THEATER COMPANY

September 2010

SEASON PASSES
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DON GIOVANNI TODAY,
DON CARLO TOMORROW
SEPT. 17 - OCT. 17, 2010
Fri-Sat @ 8pm & Sun @ 7pm
(no performance Sun, Sept. 19)

MAGNUM OPUS THEATRE
At the San Francisco Fringe Fest!
Sept. 9-18, 2010

INVESTIGATE OUR 14th SEASON WITH A SEASON PASS!

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AN L.A. TIMES TOP PICK!

"...the company's comic fury is so strong, and its skills so sharp..." - L.A. Weekly (GO)

"...hilarious... an invaluable lesson for newer screenwriters..." -The Rouge Wave

An Amazingly
Awful Screenplay.
Word for Word. Unedited.
We Didn't Change a Thing.

AT THE SAN FRANCISCO FRINGE FESTIVAL,
SEPTEMBER 9-18!

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SEPTEMBER 17 -
OCTOBER 17

WORLD PREMIERE! Backstage at a regional opera house, the chorus prepares for tonight's unprecedented presentation of Don Carlo... or is it Don Giovanni?

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A Foolish favorite for years! Right on the corner of Melrose & Heliotrope!
Pizza * Subs * Calzones * Wraps * Salads * Beer * Wine * and more!

<<-----Paul himself, making a guest appearance on our stage to rapturous applause from the Sacred Fools audience!

Photo from Yelp's Pizza Paul listing
Video stills from "Fast & Loose" #7

• SEASON 14 BEGINS SEPT. 2010!

Don Giovanni Today,
Don Carlo Tomorrow (Sept-Oct)
Watson (Nov-Dec)
Puzzler (Jan-Feb 2011)
Endgame (Mar-Apr 2011)
Carnevil (May-June 2011)

• ONGOING SHOWS

Serial Killers (Ongoing)
Fast & Loose (Occasional)
Ten Tops (Quarterly)
Magnum Opus Theatre (Occasional)

• AUDITIONS

Watson (Aug. 27-29)

SEPTEMBER 17 -
OCTOBER 17

WORLD PREMIERE! Backstage at a regional opera house, the chorus prepares for tonight's unprecedented presentation of Don Carlo... or is it Don Giovanni?

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NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2010

WORLD
PREMIERE!

written & directed
by Jaime Robledo
(director of last season's
"Neighborhood 3")

A mystery. A legend.
An enduring friendship.

Based on the long-running
serial from Serial Killers.

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Audition Information

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2011

The WORLD PREMIERE of

written & directed by Padraic Duffy

What is a Puzzler?

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MARCH - APRIL 2011

by samuel beckett
directed by paul plunkett

more info soon!

MAY - JUNE 2011

A WORLD PREMIERE
MUSICAL!

CARNEVIL
book & lyrics by
Michael Teoli
& Joe Fria

composed by Michael Teoli

directed by Ken Roht

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SATURDAYS @ 11pm (Returns September 25!)

Five Plays Enter... Three Plays Leave.

RECOMMENDED by L.A. Weekly!

Now beginning its SIXTH year!

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Next Show TBA

Eight brand-new plays are
created in just 24 hours!

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A VERY ECLECTIC OPEN
PERFORMANCE EVENT

NEXT SHOW: TBA (October-ish)

Do anything you want... for 7 minutes or less!

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LAist's "Pencil Pick of the Day!" (We're not sure what that means, but we'll take it!)

"I’m pleased to have encountered a night in which I didn’t know what to expect, and was, every time, genuinely surprised
and always entertained..." -L.A. Splash

An Amazingly
Awful Screenplay.
Word for Word. Unedited.
We Didn't Change a Thing.

AT THE SAN FRANCISCO FRINGE FESTIVAL,
SEPTEMBER 9-18!

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• It's a Foolish Fringe Summer! While Hamlet Shut Up racks up great reviews at the New York Fringe, Magnum Opus Theatre will be going to the San Francisco Fringe Festival, with six performances from Sept. 9-18! [ Details ]
• Our 14th season has been announced and will include four World Premiere plays and one classic! [ Details ]
• Hamlet Shut Up has been chosen for the New York Fringe! Performing five performances between Aug. 14-21 at The First Floor Theatre @ LA MAMA! [ Details ]
• Hamlet Shut Up wins an L.A. Weekly Award for Best Adaptation, while Land of the Tigers' Devin Sidell wins for Female Comedy Performance! [ Details ]
• Land of the Tigers has won two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards! [ Details ]
• Land of the Tigers has won three Garland Awards plus two Honorable Mentions, as well asn an Honorable Mention for Savin' Up For Saturday Night! [ Details ]
• Sacred Fools has been nominated for SIXTEEN L.A. Weekly Awards, including six for Land of the Tigers, two for Savin' Up For Saturday Night and eight for Hamlet Shut Up! [ Details ]
• Land of the Tigers has been nominated for two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards - Featured Performance and Costume Design - and has won a special award for Makeup Design! [ Details ]
• Land of the Tigers' Hugo Armstrong has won the Ovation Award for Featured Actor! Also, Vanessa Claire Smith and Jake Broder have won Best Actress and Best Actor for their performances in the Geffen Playhouse production of Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara - roles they originated at Sacred Fools. Congratulations to Hugo, Jake and Vanessa! [ Awards ]
• Veteran L.A. theater critic Steven Leigh Morris has named Sacred Fools among his Best Theater Companies of the Decade, and Hamlet Shut Up among the Best Theater of 2009! [ Read the Articles - Best of the '00s / Best of 2009 ]
• Veteran L.A. theater critic Don Shirley has named Land of the Tigers and Hamlet Shut Up among his 20 Highlights of 2009! [ Read the Article! ]
• Sacred Fools has been named among the "Best and Brightest" in L.A. Theater by Digital City! [ Read the Article! ]
• Land of the Tigers has been nominated for FOUR Ovation Awards - Playwriting, Featured Actor, Costume Design and Sound Design! [ More Details ]
• Once again, please vote for Sacred Fools as "Best Theatre Group" on the myfoxla HOTList and help us win for the third year running! Deadline to vote is November 6; results will be announced on Tuesday, Nov. 17. [ Vote Here! ]
• Lots of press for the Fools lately! BroadwayWorld.com has published an interview with writer Jeff Goode and songwriter Richard Levinson about our about-to-open Season 13 opener, Savin' Up For Saturday Night, and the Los Angeles Examiner has also published an article about the show. Meanwhile, Cinematical has published an article hyping our May 2010 production of Forbidden Zone: Live in the 6th Dimension. Click on the links to read the articles!
• The L.A. Weekly's Steven Leigh Morris praises our upcoming 13th Season on The Playgoer blog! He writes, "If you're looking for something a little more adventurous on L.A. stages, you need – as usual – to turn to the smaller players. Here's the upcoming 13th season from one of the funkier survivors of the economic downturn, Sacred Fools Theatre Company, situated in East Hollywood." [ Read the Article. ]
• Legendary cult director Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone, Shrunken Heads), formerly of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, crashed our annual Thursty Awards at Sacred Fools on Saturday night - and NBC L.A. reported on it! Sacred Fools will be producing a theatrical adaptation of Forbidden Zone in May of 2010. [ Details... ]
The Fools Invasion begins at 1:44!
• Sacred Fools is pleased to announce our Mainstage offerings for our 13th Season (Septemberl 2009 - June 2010), a season of World Premiere and West Coast Premiere plays! [ Details... ]
• Two L.A. Weekly Awards for Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara, as well as an Award for 43 Plays For 43 Presidents! [ Awards ]
• Theater critic David C. Nichols of the L.A. Times and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has kindly allowed us to post the speech he made upon presenting Sacred Fools with the Polly Warfield Award. [ Read the Speech ]
• The awards keep rolling in for Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara - add four Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards and six Garland Awards to the tally! [ Read the Announcement ]
• Sacred Fools founder John Sylvain has been interviewed by Live 2.0! [ Read the Interview ]
• The L.A. Drama Critics Circle has awarded Sacred Fools the Polly Warfield Award for an Excellent Season in a Small to Mid-Sized Theater! This award comes with a $500 cash prize, courtesy of the Nederlander Organization. Also, Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara has been nominated for four L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards! [ See the full list of nominees ]
• Five L.A. Weekly nominations for Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara, as well as a nomination each for Beaverquest! The Musical and 43 Plays For 43 Presidents! [ See the full list of nominees ]
• Louis & Keely of Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara (aka Jake Broder and Sacred Fools company member Vanessa Claire Smith) will be hosting the 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Awards on Monday, March 30, 2009 at the El Rey theatre. More details soon! [ Read the Announcement! ]
• A WEEK OF AWARDS! Sacred Fools has WON "Best Theatre Group" on the myfoxla HOTList for the second year running! Thanks to all who voted for their support! [ List of Winners ] Also, Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara has won an Ovation Award - the Franklin R. Levy Memorial Award for Musical Intimate Theatre!
• Vote for Sacred Fools as "Best Theatre Group" on the myfoxla HOTList and help us win for the second year running! Deadline is November 7. (As of this writing, we're currently second place, behind our erstwhile colleagues at Theatre of NOTE. Help put us over the top!) [ Vote Here! ]
• Our World Premiere production of Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara has been nominated for FOUR Ovation Awards - Best Musical, Best Lead Actress, Best Lead Actor and Best Direction!
• Sacred Fools is pleased to announce our Mainstage offerings for our 12th Season (Fall 2008 - Summer 2009), including collaborations with Theatre of Note and Burglars of Hamm! [ Details... ]
• The Swine Show won an L.A. Weekly Theater Award for Sound Design! Congratulations to Tim Labor, whose sounds can also be heard in our current production of Beaverquest!
• The Swine Show has been nominated for four L.A. Weekly Theater Awards - Revival Production of the Year, Comedy Direction, Comedy Ensemble and Sound Design!
• Act a Lady, directed by What the Butler Saw's Kiff Scholl, has been nominated for a GLAAD Outstanding Los Angeles Theater Award!
• WINNER of the myfoxla HOTlist "Best Theatre Group" Award!