Friday, October 29, 2010

FOUR LIONS Director Chris Morris All Week Long!





Chris Morris's TV Work Absolutely FREE:
THE DAY TODAY, BRASS EYE, and JAM
Sunday 10/31 thru Thursday 11/4 10:00pm @Village

Advance tickets available here

Think THE DAILY SHOW is cutting edge? British satirist Chris Morris (director of the highly anticipated FOUR LIONS opening Nov 5 at Alamo South Lamar) was lampooning the news with a sharp wit before Jon Stewart could even vote. Now, in one of the first American screenings ever, the Alamo proudly presents Chris Morris' landmark news programs THE DAY TODAY and BRASS EYE, and his ultra-weird comedy/horror JAM! And that's not all: The whole thing is FREE!!!!

Sunday 10/31: THE DAY TODAY Part 1 - 10pm

Monday 11/1: JAM - 10pm

Tuesday 11/2: THE DAY TODAY Part 2 - 945pm

Wednesday 11/3: BRASS EYE Part 1 - 10pm

Thursday 11/4: BRASS EYE Part 2 - 10pm

Tickets to these screenings will be free, but you can reserve your seat by purchasing a $5 food and drink voucher redeemable towards your check at the show that night.

And be sure to check out Drafthouse Films release of FOUR LIONS opening Nov 5 at Alamo South Lamar.

Get your tickets for this great show now.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

I haven't had a good custard in years!



Dismember the Alamo: DEAD ALIVE Sloppy Food Party
Sun, Oct 31 at the Alamo South Lamar
Advance tickets available here

Peter Jackson’s break out feature is quite possibly the greatest zombie flick ever made, and certainly one of the messiest movies of all time. What other movie has an ass-kicking priest, zombie procreation, and an ultra-bloody dismemberment-by-lawnmower scene? If ever there was a movie that made you want to eat, DEAD ALIVE is.....well, maybe not people's first choice. But, for those hard-core fans with a love for zombie films, and an iron stomach to boot, have we got a treat for you. For this special Dismember the Alamo screening, we’ve joined the film with the messiest food pairing we can think of.

Of course there will be custard for dessert (rich and creamy, just the way you like it!) and plenty of sloppy joes to slurp down when Lionel goes medieval on the zombies with his lawn mower. Plus, we have a few other tricks up our sleeves that will have you feeling like you’re seeing the film again for the first time!

Join us for this special screening and stick around afterward for the premiere of AMC's THE WALKING DEAD followed by The Action Pack's Zombie Prom at Highball.

Click HERE to purchase your tickets.



Saturday, October 23, 2010

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS w/ gourmet food and Live Oak Beer Pairings as part of Austin Beer Week!



INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Live Oak Beer Feast
w/ Live Oak Co-founder Chip McElroy!
Wed, Oct 27 at the Alamo South Lamar
Advance tickets and full menu available here

As part of Austin Beer Week, we are pleased to announce a screening of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS with a multi-course German feast paired with German-style beers from our friends at Live Oak Brewing Company. The screening will also include a guided tasting with descriptions of the beer as well as a Q&A after the film hosted by none other than Live Oak co-founder Chip McElroy!

If there was ever an event geared toward those who love beer and hate Nazis, this is it! Join us as we taste the fine offerings from our talented Alamo chefs paired with the finest beers from Austin's own Live Oak Brewing. The two go together better than Nazis in a theater fire! Check out the show page for a full menu and list of beer pairings. Grab your advance tickets before it's too late! For a full list of events happening during Austin Beer Week, check out the full schedule here.

Also, don't miss the Real Ale Cask Night the following night at Alamo Lake Creek. Admission is FREE and we'll be tapping a cask of Real ESB as well as a keg of this year's Coffee Porter. Click here for more info on the FREE event.

Friday, October 22, 2010

THRILLERFEST moved to THE HIGHBALL!



THRILLERFEST: Thrill the World 2010
DATE: Saturday, October 23, Lesson @ 3pm, Dance @6pm
NEW LOCATION: The Highball
(due to rain concerns)

Grab your tickets HERE!

Because even zombies are affected by rain (have you *seen* RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD?), and our sources tell us it's supposed to be all sorts of stormy on Saturday, we will be moving the Thriller event this year to INSIDE at THE HIGHBALL.

CHECK IN
You can check in at the Highball beginning at 2pm, and the lesson will start at 3pm. On your way in, make sure you SIGN IN if you are going to dance, because we need to have a true and accurate count of how many dancers join us so we can report back to Thrill the World HQ. You’ll still be able to pay your admission at the door on the day of the event, but pre-registering online may save you time at the doors. To get your advance tickets click here, and remember that proceeds from this event go to help support Scare For A Cure and their battle against breast cancer – PLUS you get $10 off the Zombie Ball on Oct 30, where we will be heading back to take our revenge on Seaholm and performing again. But even though we’re inside – be dressed as a zombie!

TIMELINE
The doors will be open to the public beginning at 2pm. The amazing Craig Ries will lead us through a COMPLETE dance lesson starting at 3pm so even if you’ve never taken part in Thrill the World before you can show up and by the official Thrill time you will know it because he will be starting from SCRATCH.

Beginning around 4:30pm we’ll be working complete run throughs. From 4:30pm to 5:30p, we’ll keep rehearsing and rehearsing and rehearsing the dance, moving up from the slowed down track all the way up to full speed. Then we’ll take a quick break before reconvening at 5:45 to get lined up into a grid and give everyone as much space as possible for the official Thrill Time. At PRECISELY 6:00pm we’ll all start to rise from our zombie graves and break into a zombie march with some shoulder snaps at the EXACT SAME TIME as people are dancing in other cities and countries around the world. At 6:08pm we’ll jump up and down and cheer and clap for ourselves and our amazing awesomeness, then we’ll all sing along to a stirring rendition of “Heal the World,” which will also be happening in various locations all around the planet. We’ll take a short break after that and will have a party photo booth where you and your group can get your zombie portraits taken by Trevor Ray Thompson.

At 6:30pm the McCallum High orchestra will be performing an instrumental MJ melody on the Highball stage, and after that, we’ll go into straight into a Michael Jackson dance party featuring a selection of his best music videos presented on all the screens at the Highball. Dance on the dance floor, grab dinner at the Highball, or just soak up the MJ vibes. After that you may be exhausted, BUT if you still have more dance in you, feel free to keep on keeping on at the Highball for The Action Pack’s new Music Video Dance party, where we’ll keep on with the force, don’t stop all the way to 2am. And don’t forget! Your $10 door fee and donation to Scare For A Cure also gets you $10 off your admission to next week’s Zombie Ball back at Seaholm. We’re going to gather a legion of zombies there for a special encore performance of Thriller, so be sure to join us for that.

All right, all together now, let’s grab our crotches, yell out “A hee hee!” and make this a PARTY!

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Thrill the World at Seaholm



THRILLERFEST 2010
Oct 23, 2pm at Seaholm Power Plant in Downtown Austin
$10, proceeds go to Scare For A Cure
Grab your advance tix now right here
Check out an advance dance lesson at the Highball this week
!

In 2008 we did our Roar Turns all over the Long Center Pavilion. In 2009, we moved the party over to the yard behind the Seaholm Power Plant in downtown Austin, and this year we're going to Rock On Rock On Rock On Rock On right there. Because this is THRILLERFEST 2010 and we're going to do it up bigger and better than ever.

If you've never heard of ThrillerFest or Thrill The World, though, here's the deal: In 2006, Ines Markeljevic taught 62 people the iconic choreography for Michael Jackson's Thriller, then had them all dance together at the same time in a public place in Toronto, CA. Even with that number of people, she set a new Guinness World Record, and media impressions reached into the millions.

In 2007, using a sophisticated system of cell phones and watches, she expanded and had 1,722 people in 52 cities on 5 continents dancing to Thriller at exactly the same time, setting a new world record.

Back in 2008, we realized that this was something we needed to be a part of, so we flew Ines down to Austin so she could teach classes here and we could build a new legion of zombie dancers to be a part of the tradition. That year Austin had 881 people dance along with the rest of the 4,179 people from 10 nations (Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Scotland, United States of America, and Wales)and we became a part of the King of Pop's history forever.

Last year, of course, MJ left us all much too soon, and to protect his memory 22,571 people joined in the Thrill the World event worldwide.

This year, the world will be thrilled again, and we've put out a call all over Texas to have people join us at the ThrillerFest event here in Austin on October 23, 2010. The official dance time world wide this year is 6pm CST, and we're going to start our event at 2pm with a COMPLETE dance lesson so that everyone who shows up that day can have a chance to participate.

Of course, you'll be able to be a much stronger dancer if you take some time to rehearse ahead of time, and there are a few ways to do that:

NUMBER 1: Check out Ines' YouTube page and work your way through her lessons at your own pace. You've got a couple of weeks (depending on when you're reading this) so if you get going you can really learn the whole thing and be a master by Thrill Time.

NUMBER 2: Check the calendar at The Highball and take a group dance lesson there, or join in with Sustainable Waves as they prep up for the Zombie Ball.

Or, of course, you could always do both! Then you'll be the grand master when you join us on October 23.

We've partnered with Scare for a Cure again this year and will be donating proceeds from the event to their efforts to frighten off breast cancer. $10 will get you in the gates this year, but if you feel like donating more to their cause you can bring more to help out at the event.

Plus! Your $10 donation will also get you $10 off of entrance to the Zombie Ball featuring White Ghost Shivers and Roky Erickson when we do a reprise of the dance on Oct 30!

A hee hee!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy





Sunday 10/17, 8:40, Monday 10/18 & Tuesday 10/19, 7:00 @Ritz
Advance tickets available here

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Horror Masterpiece THE SHINING Coming to the Ritz this Week!





Jack Nicholson only works, never plays in
THE SHINING
Sunday 10/17, 8:40, Monday 10/18 & Tuesday 10/19, 7:00 @Ritz

Advance tickets available here

Just in time for Halloween, we’re showing the greatest horror film ever made. Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece about the Torrance family, holed up for the winter as the caretakers of the Overlook Hotel, is intense, stunning, and downright scary!

It’s full of now-classic horror film moments, from ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY to “Heeere's Johnny!,” REDRUM, and those creepy twins, but it never feels clichéd or outplayed; it’s the kind of horror movie that ages well, the terrifying imagery and sounds only becoming stronger as the years go by.

Starring Jack Nicholson from back when he was actually crazy, Shelley Duvall as the svelte wife with a baseball bat, and Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann, the Shining mentor for little Danny/Tony.

So embrace your mad side and come out to see the greatest horror film ever in gigantic 35mm on the biggest and best screen in town!

Get your tickets for this great show now.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

All three EVIL DEAD films paired with a multi-course flesh-ripping feast



The EVIL DEAD Trilogy Feast
Sun, Oct 17 at the Alamo Ritz
Advance tickets and full menu available here

People talk big about boring old holidays like Christmas, but there's only one time of year that truly warms our cockles: Halloween! And with visions of severed hands dancing in our heads, we at the Alamo are ready to hail to the Santa of Slaughter himself, Mr. Bruce Campbell.

Now, we do it to the max with a multi-course flesh-ripping feast so delicious, it'll make you feel like you've hurtled through time to combat medieval zomboid demons! This manic assault on your taste buds will take us from the homemade horror roots of 1981's EVIL DEAD, through the spazzed up 1987 sequel and directly into battle with the ARMY OF DARKNESS, all in full-tilt blood red 35mm! The most hilarious, violent and downright delectable feast in Alamo history.

Click here to check out the menu and grab your tickets before it's too late. Miss this chance to see all three EVIL DEAD flicks back to back to back and it's like the Deadites have already won. It's us or them, and we're damn sure not getting OUR souls swallowed.

Friday, October 15, 2010



Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
Midnight Screening Tickets on sale Fri, Oct 15 at noon
Plus, special Yule Ball + Screening combo tickets!

As both the Wizarding and Muggle worlds should know by now, Part 1 of HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS opens on Nov 19. We’ve had our robes all in a bunch about this since we saw the first trailer and now the time is almost here!

Tickets for our midnight screenings (which may or may not be at midnight on the dot) at South Lamar, Village and Lake Creek go on sale today (Fri, Oct 15) at noon!

Of course, watching HP at midnight is always a celebration in itself, but this year we've decided to do something extra special and magical-ly over at South Lamar: Our very own Yule Ball at the Highball. We've got a special combo ticket that includes admission to the Yule Ball AND to the midnight show of Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Part 1. Check out the details here.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

The SHAUN OF THE DEAD Quote-Along!



The Action Pack presents the
SHAUN OF THE DEAD QUOTE-ALONG
Oct 14, 21 & 28 at the Alamo Ritz
Advance tix to all shows available right here


For weeks now I've been saying, "I'll do it on the night," over and over and over again. Well tonight at the Ritz it finally *is* the night - that's right, it's time for the SHAUN OF THE DEAD QUOTE-ALONG and we are going to bash some zombie brains in with the best quotes about having red on you that have ever been uttered in movie history.

But perhaps even more exciting than the simple fact that we not only get to enjoy Edgar Wright's zom-rom-com on the big screen again while quoting along with key lines that are subtitled karaoke style is that we'll also be giving away free cricket bats so we can bash in the heads of any zombies that happen to be sitting next to us every time Shaun is attacking one of their undead brethren!

That's right, we special ordered some *hilarious* cricket bats straight out of China, and after they arrived in Alamo HQ this week we spent most of our afternoons bopping each other in the brains. Tomorrow night, we'll be inviting YOU to bop your friends and neighbors in the brains with those very same cricket bats, and the startling reality of the coming zombie apocalypse will chill your ones as you realize that one day you may ACTUALLY HAVE TO BASH IN YOUR FRIEND'S BRAINS...

But not today! Today we're okay, and so we're turning the Alamo Ritz into the Winchester for one night only. Because think about it - we have strong doors, a secret exit into the back alley if anything gets too out of hand, the balconies in the main theater and a projection booth to hide in... heck, if zombies actually attack us there's even a secret ladder to the roof that I'll show you, and from that roof we can jump over to the next one, then we can find a safe way down, steal your step dad's Jaguar, and take a short cut to safety!

Just be sure to practice your zombie groaning before the show. It's vacant, with a hint of sadness. You're dead and you hate it - go!

As an extra bonus, if you attend tonight's screening you'll have a chance to win prizes and tickets to Scare for a Cure's H1Z1:Zombie Wasteland! If you would like to simply purchase tickets to the Wasteland because you're scared of winning, you cna also enter "ALAMO" at check out for a $2 Discount.(Henri Mazza)

Unseen Gems From TV Past - THE OTHER NETWORK Tonight!





Conan O'Brien, Judd Apatow, Robert Smigel and More:
The Other Network: NOT READY FOR CRIME-TIME
Wednesday 10/13, 9:35 @Ritz

Advance tickets available here

Rare gems rescued from the secret vaults of Hollywood! THE OTHER NETWORK presents TV pilots that were too controversial, too idiosyncratic or just too damn funny for prime-time TV. These fully-produced TV shows were never aired and never before seen. Each show screens with an exclusive intro from the writers/producers who created them, giving unique insights into Hollywood and the creative process.

On this episode...

LOOKWELL is the legendary pilot by Conan O'Brien & Robert Smigel, written especially for Adam West as an actor who played a detective on TV and can't let it go. Intro is an extended exclusive interview with Conan O'Brien by Other Network creator Beth Lapides.

BEAT COPS by Conan O'Brien, Sam Seder, Tom Maxwell & Don Woodard features beautifully-nuanced performances by Seder & Jon Benjamin as two neurotic street cops. Intro by Seder.

LIFE ON PAROLE is a single-camera dramedy about a hard-headed but soft-hearted parole agent by Judd Apatow & Brent Forrester (THE OFFICE, THE SIMPSONS). Intro by Forrester.

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Monday, October 11, 2010

WILD AT HEART w/ Novelist Barry Gifford Live!




Novelist Barry Gifford Presents David Lynch's:
WILD AT HEART
Tuesday 10/12, 7:00 @Ritz

Advance tickets available here

Author of the original novel, Barry Gifford will be presenting the film live and sharing his experiences with the production. The screening will be followed with a Q&A and book signing with the prolific author.

This screening is sponsored in part by our friends at Book People.

Based on the pulp novel by author Barry Gifford, WILD AT HEART follows Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, a young couple of outcasts who leave their hometown of Cape Fear, North Carolina, and strike out on their own. This “road movie” is a journey into the supernatural and the violent, bringing to light the dark side of America and the open road.

Adapted for the screen and directed by master director David Lynch (TWIN PEAKS, BLUE VELVET, ERASERHEAD) and starring prime-era Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, this film is one of Lynch’s finest efforts, earning him the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes. With a supporting cast of some of the greatest character actors of the 1980s and ‘90s (Harry Dean Stanton, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Grace Zabriskie).

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Mellotron Doc MELLODRAMA for Music Monday



Music Monday
MELLODRAMA
Sunday 10/3, 6:40 @Ritz

Advance tickets available here

The mellotron is a magical musical instrument, capable of producing some of the most beautiful sounds the human ear can comprehend. It's mechanism is simple and brilliant: different instrument notes are recorded and the resultant tape is set up in the machine, so when the keyboard buttons are pushed the tape is played. This archaic form of "sampling" is in many ways the precursor to many modern music genres.

You may know the instrument as the dreamy, beautiful sound from the intro to the Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever and as a favorite of The Moody Blues, The Zombies, Genesis, King Crimson, and Roxy Music, but you may not know that this box, originally marketed as the "orchestra at your fingertips," has a dynamic history and continues to be one of the most important innovations in popular music.

This doc captures that amazing sound and the quirky history of the instrument, tracing its rise and fall and rise in popular music interspersed with wonderful performances.

We're also very lucky to have a mellotron in the theatre for a live demonstration before the movie. This is going to be a Music Monday to remember.

Get your tickets for this great show now.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY opening at the Ritz this Friday!




Zach Galifianakis is a mental patient in
IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY
Opens Friday, October 8 @Ritz

Advance tickets available here

Opening Friday is IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, a new teen heart-comedy that centers on an anxious young man who is not very happy. He voluntarily checks himself into a psychiatric ward, only to discover that a renovation project has the teen floor closed, forcing him to stay with the adult inmates. The film, an adaptation of Ned Vizzini's best-seller, tells of the five days the boy spends in this psychiatric hospital and the strange characters he meets.

One of these members of the Breakfast Club of the Unwell is a sweater wearing Zach Galifianakis. Galifianakis lights up the screen when he appears, acting like a mentor to the young man and injecting some of his unique comedy style along the way. Here he offers bad advice and misguidance as well as affection and compassion.

JR Jones of the Chicago Reader sums up the tone of the film perfectly, saying that IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY "inhabits that wonderful and elusive space between comedy and drama where genuine human behavior resides." If you're looking for hilarious or heartfelt, this is the movie for you. We're excited to premiere this film at the Ritz on Friday. Don't miss it.

Get your tickets for this great show now.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Unseen GALIFIANAKIS! OSWALT! APATOW! STILLER! CONAN O'BRIEN! The Other Network!


THE OTHER NETWORK
Wednesdays in Oct starting THIS WEEK at The Ritz!


We’re pleased and shocked to bring completely undiscovered original TV pilots from the pre-successful days of many of your favorite modern stars! Rare gems rescued from the secret vaults of Hollywood! Conan O’Brien! Patton Oswalt! Judd Apatow! Zach Galifianakis! Ben Stiller! Jack Black! Amy Poehler! Fred Armisen! And lots of others who deserve exclamation points.

THE OTHER NETWORK presents long-buried TV pilots that were too controversial, too idiosyncratic or just too damn funny for prime-time TV. These fully-produced TV shows were never aired, never before seen and the closest thing to auteur pieces ever made. Each show screens with an exclusive intro from the writers/producers who created them, giving unique insights into Hollywood and the creative process.

Here’s what the critics think of the damn thing:

“A runaway hit!… A revelation!” – NY Times
“An alternative universe of television!” – salon.com
“Sitcoms worth leaving home for!” – Rolling Stone
“Creative… Original… Offbeat!” – NPR
“Glorious… Hilarious!” – Newsweek

Every Wednesday in October at the Ritz, we’ll be bringing three or four of these to you, never seen and never to be seen again! It all begins this Wednesday with VARIETY SHOWDOWN!

All right! Now GET YOUR TICKETS to this once-in-a-lifetime show!!

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Werner Herzog's AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD at the Ritz this week!




Glorious new 35mm print of Werner Herzog's
AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD
Wednesday 10/6, 7:00 & Sunday 10/10, 7:00 @Ritz

Advance tickets available here

German genius filmmaker Werner Herzog is definitely one of our all time favorites. He tempers his immense talent and vision with equal parts crazy and manic, perfecting the Alamo Drafthouse formula long before we were slinging beers and burgers to Austin audiences. We're ape over Herzog, and everything he does, including our favorite film from last year, THE BAD LIEUTENANT.

So we're very excited to present Herzog's masterpiece, AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD. The first in a series of five volatile but creatively successful collaborations with madman/acting genius Klaus Kinski, AGUIRRE tells the story of Lope de Aguirre, a Spanish soldier leading a pack of conquistadors through South America in search of a legendary city of gold. As the journey becomes fraught with problems, Aguirre and his crew fall deeper and deeper into madness within the oppressive jungles of Peru.

This is the foundational film for insanity in cinema, aided greatly by Kinski’s brilliant performance and Herzog’s keen eye for the strange side of life. While it’s got some of the most beautiful filmmaking and acting in film history, it’s not all hoity-toity; Kinski’s soliloquy to a tribe of monkeys is a true showstopper.

This film is a madhouse thrill ride that you'll either never forget or you already adore. Do not miss this beautiful new 35mm print!


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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Cinema Club Presents: DIVORCE, ITALIAN STYLE




Cinema Club Presents
DIVORCE, ITALIAN STYLE
Sunday 10/3, 6:40 @Ritz

Advance tickets available here

Alamo's Cinema Club, the series that brings film historians to the Alamo for a night of classic film discussion, is proud to invite Dr. Paola Bonifazio to present the magnificent farce DIVORCE, ITALIAN STYLE.

This is the Cinema Club's first encounter with foreign cinema, and we couldn't be happier to start with this hilarious black comedy from Italy. Pietro Germi’s DIVORCE, ITALIAN STYLE is one of Europe's best satires and one of the key films in cinema history. Starring International mega-star/playboy Marcello Mastroianni (LA DOLCE VITA, LA NOTTE, 8½) and devilishly enchanting ingénue Stefania Sandrelli, DIVORCE, ITALIAN STYLE is an excellent farce played to perfection and written with a heavy and dry wit that is distinctly Italian, yet resonates with American audiences.

Upon its release in 1961, the film helped to spearhead a movement in Italy that stepped away from the social melodramas and political "neorealist" films of the post-war period, bringing back a somewhat darker and subtler take on the rich, ages-old tradition of Italian comedy. The film was also widely popular in the US, earning an Academy Award for Best Screenplay and spawning an Americanization called DIVORCE, AMERICAN STYLE and starring Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds.

Come Sunday to learn more about this hilarious and perfectly made Italian masterpiece with our marvelous host, Dr. Paola Bonifazio.

Get your tickets for this great show now.