SCARLETT FEVER, AN ORIGINAL PHYSICAL THEATER PIECE EXPLORING THE TRUE STORY OF THE GREAT SEARCH TO FIND SCARLETT O’HARA
Scarlett Fever
Kick Boom Theater Company launches its inaugural production Scarlett Fever, created and directed by John Wuchte. Original music by John Wuchte and award-winning composer Michael Teoli.
Scarlett Fever performance dates
June 8 @ 1:00pm, June 15 @7:30pm, June 19 @ 6:30pm, June 23 @ 8:30pm, June 30 @ 3:00pm
at the Broadwater Complex in Hollywood, 1076 Lillian Way.
Tickets are pay what you can for preview / $12-$15 all other shows
http://hff19.org/6017
In 1936, producer David O. Selznick began a 2-year search to find an unknown to play Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind. The story unfolds in 10 moments incorporating stylized movement, dance, song, original text, several suitcases, and the great Scarlett dress. All accompanied by live percussion.
John Wuchte brings his Tribal Acting method to this original creation. Performed by an ensemble of 8 actors, his spare dialogue, gesture work, movement, dance, chant, song and live percussion, create a dream like atmosphere exploring this Hollywood legend.
With only a bare stage, a few chairs and some vintage suitcases, he will accent the show with hand held lights to create the moody atmosphere of this fascinating Hollywood legend.
The ensemble will portray the real-life figures of David O’Selznick, his brother Myron, and Kay Brown, who was integral in obtaining the rights to Gone with the Wind. The famed gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons will also inhabit the story. Along with 3 women portraying the 3 Scarletts.
John Wuchte began his career in New York City where he was the Artistic Director of RAKKA-THAMM!!! Theater Company through the ‘90s. Each summer he would adapt Greek tragedies filled with chant and song accompanied by live drumming, and would perform outside in Washington Square Park. This is when his Tribal Acting method took shape. He wrote and directed Vivian Vance is Alive and Well and Running a Chinese Take-Out.
His production of Claire Z. (an adaptation of The Visit) was performed at Sacred Fools Theater Company and received and L.A. Weekly nomination for best adaptation.
Claire Z. / L.A. Weekly
“…brash, fearless, and playfully unconventional…inventively stylish fun!”
Claire Z. / L.A. Times
Balm in Gilead / Backstage NYC
“Turns the heads of even the most callous New Yorker”The Eumenides / New York Casting Magazine
Michael Teoli (composer) is an award-winning Film and Theater Composer. Before graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Teoli worked on Howard Shore’s Music Team for The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Since then, he has scored/worked on music for over 65 films. Michael’s rock musical, Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera has played in Portland, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and enjoyed a sold-out run at the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Broadway Records just released a live album: Tonya & Nancy (Highlights from the Rock Opera) Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below which Michael also co-produced. His other feature musicals include CarnEvil and The Werewolves of Hollywood Boulevard. Michael provided Music Direction, Arrangements and Additional Musical Composition for Doomsday Cabaret, Exorcistic: A Rock Musical Parody Experiment (each winning BEST MUSICAL at the Hollywood Fringe Festival) and Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to Hamlet (which won the Ovation Award for Best Music).
Kent Jenkins (musician) is a Los Angeles-based musician, theatre creator and YouTuber. Kent is best known for his musical work with the RimbaTubes as Snubby J (TEDx.com, The Ellen Show, MTV’s Amazingness.) He is a Hollywood Fringe veteran (8:03, RimbaTubes, YARN and this year’s Death and the Fool). https://www.youtube.com/user/snubbyj
John Wuchte will also be leading 2 Tribal Acting workshops during the Hollywood Fringe.
June 15 @ 3:30pm and June 29 @ 4:30pm
https://www.tribalacting.com/scarlettfever.html for more information.
