DON’T CRUSH OUR HEART TICKETS AVAILABLE!!!
September 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
PREMIER: SATURDAY SEPT 20, 8PM, $15
REPRISE: SATURDAY OCT 18, 8PM, $15
THE BEAUTIFUL RITZ THEATER, 345 13TH AVE NE
NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS!
FOR TICKETS: CALL THE RITZ BOX OFFICE 612.436.1129
OR BUY ONLINE RIGHT HERE*
*SPECIAL ONLINE TICKET OFFER! Enter promo code “brady” and for a $28 ($35 value!) you can see Don’t Crush Our Heart AND the only straight up EARS show of the season: The Electric Arc Radio Christmas Special — A Very Brady Christmas — on November 29th! Thanksgiving Turkey!
DON’T CRUSH OUR HEART! it approaches…
September 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
In an old brick warehouse room, down in the Armitage Heights Munitions District, Joshua and Jessica of the young band Moon Island, smile, strum and make powerfully pretty pop music.
Meanwhile, across the hood, sitting at a desk in his sad-lit office, Councilman Sherman listens to an MP3 of Moon Island, the very same band, and dreams of luring an Urban Outfitter, a Pei Wei Asian fusion restaurant, and a giant U2 outdoor iPod ad to his district. Could Joshua, Jessica — this Moon Island — be the key? They sing so beautiful… Yessss…
The next morning, after good sleep, Sherman hears the news on the blogs and the twitters: “Moon Island to relocate to Brooklyn, NY!” Sherman shouts: “Somebody call the City Attorney, STAT. These kids can’t leave!” And thus begins the greatest Urban Planning, Pretty Pop Music, Radio-style, Court Room Dramedy, Cautionary Musical Tale EVER KNOWN!
With: Herbach and Mary Everest as Moon Island. Andy Sturdevant as Sid, the hardest-boiled pop music journalist. Jenny Adams as Marisha, administrative assistant and mega-fan. Sam Osterhout as the Honorable Alderman from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. P. Chris Bierbrauer as Councilman Sherman. Steph Ash as 80s rocker Strawberry Cox. Brady Bergeson as Judge Mathis. And, Kurt Froehlich as the prosecuting attorney.
Original music from Dave Salmela and the Electric Arc band.
Don’t Crush Our Heart… Coming this fall!
July 18th, 2008 No Comments »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
From the Electric Arc Radio people comes an all-new radio melodrama—Don’t Crush Our Heart: a Musical Legal Thriller About a Twee Band—based on the wildly popular blog, The Armitage Heights Clarion, by Andy Sturdevant.
Say it ain’t so, Sebastian! Break it to us gently, Belle! The Midwestern hipster enclave of Armitage Heights is about to lose its most beloved critically-acclaimed twee indie-pop outfit, Christmas Island, to New York City (Brooklyn!). The city fathers will do anything to keep them in town – including filing an injunction to legally prevent the move. The young (and old), the musically gifted (and not) all converge on the Pierce County Courthouse to collectively tell – and sing – a harrowing tale of ambition, money, skinny jeans, urban gentrification, 19th Century agricultural subsidies, Ukrainian electro DJs, converted lofts, tandem bicycles, the Staten Island ferry, trade tariffs, the American legal system and 9.5 Pitchfork ratings in this living-color theater of the mind. Featuring the Electric Arc players, band, and friends. It’s Witness for the Prosecution meets If You’re Feeling Sinister – and it’s only at the Ritz Theater!
Only twice: September 20 and October 18, 8p.m. at the Ritz Theater, 345 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
The Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 29th, Join Sam, Herbach, Brady, Steph, Clerky, Bushy, Sleany McFear, the ghost of Alan Greenspan, and the entire Electric Arc neighborhood for an other original episode of the Electric Arc Radio Show: “A Very Brady Christmas!”
For more information, contact:
Stephanie Wilbur Ash
ashstephanie@hotmail.com
612-418-8338
