As promised, Batterymouth will be hitting the stage once again this Sunday opening for the Globber Girls at The Playground. The show is at 10:00pm and is only $5 which is a ticket price so low that you can’t shake a stick at it. Seriously, I dare you to find a stick and shake it at that $5 ticket price. You can’t do it. For reals.
So, if you made it out to our run at the Apollo Theater Studio, we hope you’ll come out to this performance and catch us again. If you didn’t make it out to our previous run because you had things to do on Wednesdays, well, here’s your opportunity to catch us for the first time.
So, this Sunday. 10:00 pm. The Playground. Opening for the Globber Girls. $5. No stick shaking.
Last night Zack and I went out to The Playground Theater to check out our boy Dave in Tarantino: The Improvised Show (check out an earlier post about the show here). Afterwards we went out with the cast to Town Hall Pub. To say the least, the place is a dive…most…definitely. It looks like an unfinished basement with liquor bottles lining one of the walls. And what dive bar would be complete without a jukebox packed with Steve Miller’s Greatest Hits and…a photobooth.
After a couple of beers, I mentioned that it might be a great idea for the three of us to squeeze into the photobooth. We briefly decided what the four photos should be:
1. Thumbs up
2. Serious Face
3. F*** with each other
4. Whatever
This, however, is what actually happened:
1. Thumbs Up. Confusion. Not sure if the picture was actually taken.
2. Thumbs Up…Again.
3. Zack throws his glass of water everywhere.
4. Apparently we are all at the top of a log plume ride.
Ahhhh memories. Enjoy…
Well hello there everyone! If you happened to miss The Cosby Sweaters opening for us earlier this month…no worries. They will be back again this Wednesday for the fifth of our six show run at the Apollo Theater Studio. We have had the privilege of sharing a number of different stages with The Cosby Sweaters throughout the past year or so, namely The Playground, and I just love the way that these guys play on stage. We recently performed with them at Stage Left Theatre for some late night comedy with pH Productions. The suggestion that night was…and I want to get this right…ahem…”wieners on the glass”. The resulting show was raunchy, shocking, fast-paced, but most importantly…it was funny as all get out. So skip Lost this week (see previous blog post here) and come on out to watch a night of uninhibited hilarium with our friends…the Cosby Sweaters.
Mark your calendars, because this Wednesday Valid Hysteria is going to be opening for our fourth of six performances at Chicago’s Apollo Theater Studio. As you can tell from the photo, the make up of Valid Hysteria is a little different from Batterymouth - they’re a larger all-female team, we’re just three guys.
Valid Hysteria has been around since 2006 and you may have seen them perform at any number of places around the city including The Playground, the Apollo Theater Studio and various barprov shows. One of the cool things about the ladies of VH is that I’ve seen them improvise within the constraints of wildly different long form structures throughout the years, which always leaves me with that delightful “what are they going to do this time” feeling before I see them perform. So, come on out to the Apollo Theater Studio on Wednesday and take in that feeling with Batterymouth as we wait for the laides of Valid Hysteria to hit the stage.
Hey! If you’re free tonight, stop on over to the Playground Theater to catch Tarantino: The Improvised Show. Batterymouth’s own, Dave Urlakis, will be packing heat and shouting expletives in this improvised homage to Quentin Tarantino’s canon of work. The show was recently covered in a Time Out Chicago article (Batterymouth even got a plug because my boy Dave is a straight-up smooth pimp). The show is every Saturday night at 10:00pm and runs through March 7th. Check out all of the details here.
I mean, this show is PERFECT for Dave. You see, Dave is Lithuanian and Lithuanians are, by nature, pretty angry people. In fact, Urlakis actually means “Angry Eyes”…seriously. Ask him. I can’t seem to find anything online to back that up, but Dave told me that it’s true…and I think that it’s safe to say that I will believe anything that Dave Urlakis says. I also found this video…aaaand this one. Cheers.
