Tonight-a taste of PRARIE HOME COMPANION live!

FRED NEWMAN, the man of 1000 voices and sounds from A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANIONwill be live in person, providing all the sound effects for a very special Foleyvision performance of the Japanese Spiderman. to help them out. Fans of NPR's acclaimed Prarie Home Companion should not miss this one-time chance to experience live sound-effect storytelling in the intimate space of the original Alamo Downtown.

Foleyvision is definitely one of the feathers in our Alamo cap, and if you haven’t been to one of those shows yet, let me be the first to tell you that the technically amazing feat of performing all of the music and sound effects live in the theater while simultaneously re-dubbing all of the dialogue live, in sync with the movie, is really only the tip of the iceberg. Because when you’re turning down the soundtrack to the original movie and making your own sounds, you get to play around with everything, making some characters sound like Jack Bauer and others make creaking sounds when they walk and others having operatic themes that come out of nowhere and follow them around for the whole film. Really, anything can happen. This Saturday, the Foleyvision gang will get to play with THE JAPANESE SPIDERMAN.

Fred Newman from Prarie Home Companion isn’t the only special guest we have this week, of course, and I’m surprised to be able to tell you this, but at the time of this writing there are still some tickets left to QUENTIN TARANTINO’s LAST NIGHT AT THE ALAMO GRINDHOUSE mini-festival, featuring QT live in person. And next Wednesday we’ll also be welcoming Mr. Willy Wonka to the Alamo Downtown for our special four course chocolate feast! Before that, of course, we’ll be having the most special guest of all, your mom, come by for the Mother’s Day Feasts at the Lamar and Village this Sunday. Should be tasty business all around!