It’s cabaret on steroids. It’s Greatest Hits albums done live. It’s the Badass Record Collection, an open-ended series of musical extravaganzas, featuring tributes to great composers, performers, and genres of 20th and 21st Century pop music. Each night's themes will be selected by DMTheatrics founder and acclaimed director Frank Cwiklik from his collection of nearly 10,000 records, CDs, and even 78s of pop, rock, jazz, and esoterica. Not just cabarets, these are full performances, loud, high-energy blowout, big enough to entertain and maintain DMT's tradition of larger-than-life pop theater, sure to be the party shows of the century! The first installment in this series, TAKING LIBERTIES: AN EVENING OF ELVIS COSTELLO, opens July 9 and is just the first in an ongoing series of musical treasures. Featuring the musical talents of both indie theater legends and up-and-coming musical theater performers, it’s a collection of the greatest pop music of the past hundred years – it’s the Badass Record Collection, and it’s yours to explore! |
The genre cinema classics that have long inspired DMT's more colorful and popular shows now become an open-ended series of unmissable party shows! Featuring both shows adapted from 50s/60s Drive-In favorites, and new works inspired by junk cinema of the past, this festival will boast not only a full-length live performance, but at least 20 minutes of trailers, intermission reels, and short subjects, both classics from the heyday of the American Drive-In, and new tributes from Frank Cwiklik and some of indie theater and cinema's most popular directors! While the shows' tone and content will change from month to month, the theming and atmospherics will provide a comfortable and charming bed to this series of fun evenings, including carhops, fake and real movie posters, and other props and effects that provide the next best thing to being in the Drive-In theaters of the past! Also planned for 2011 is THE GREAT DRIVE-IN THEATER FESTIVAL, featuring 15 shows in rotation for over a month, where audiences can come several nights in a row to see a different show every time, complete with trailers, intermission, popcorn and soda! Escape from the daily humdrum into the world of the Drive-In Theater Collection! |
An ambitious program of shows, in which nearly all of the Bard's great works will be ruthlessly mutilated, bent, battered, cut to ribbons and otherwise manhandled by director Frank Cwiklik and his troupe of overworked and emotionally scarred thespians! Theater purists will wail, Shakespeare scholars will faint, literature hounds will blanch in horror as the indie theater impresario mercilessly bodyslams the venerated playwright’s finest and most beloved works with no regard whatsoever for the rules of etiquette, theater, or fair play! The first entry in our series, Titus Andronicus, opens this October at the Brick! No text will remain spared! No lines will be uncut! No classic is safe from the cold, clammy grasp of GRUDGE MATCH! |
And so that's where you come in! Looking to work with DMT? Are you a performer looking for that big break, or at least a chance to do a real, live, honest-to-God show instead of another showcase or scene night? Are you a director with an awesome idea for one of our ongoing festivals? A filmmaker with trailers or intermission loops for the Drive-In Theater series? A musician or singer itching to check out the Badass Record Collection? WE WANT YOU! The DMTheatrics Laboratories are currently entertaining applications from anyone brave and foolhardy enough to plumb the depths of our terrifying entertainment complex! Just email us at casting@dm-theatrics.com and let us know you're ready to go! ACTORS: Please be sure to include a resume and headshot, and a contact number where you can be reached. DIRECTORS: Please include a description of your proposed project, 300 words or less, and a proposed date for production. FILMMAKERS: Please include a link to your video on YouTube or other site, or link to a downloadable video. MUSICIANS: Please include a resume -- links to performance videos or mp3s are always appreciated, but not essential.
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