Here Comes the Weirdo Parade

May 17, 2022 Scix MaddixLeave a comment

This new Podcast is coming to YouTube and everywhere fine podcasts are found!

Scix brings weirdos aboard to discuss the power of weirdness, the challenges and fun of being a weirdo in our society. Weirdo in this case is a badge of honor! Anyone who is marginalized, outsider, artistic or dreaming can be called a weirdo, for any silly reason. Those of us who embrace the moniker tend to band together.

The first episode airs May 30 (2022) and features the Whistling Swans, a weirdo enby folk duo that’s won the hearts of the Gonzo Rising crowd!

We are the

WEIRDOS:

The outsiders,

the edge cases,

the marginalized,

the artists,

the dreamers.

We are part of

what makes life

worth living.

And we deserve

a damned

PARAdE

Coming Events

Coming up: Rocky Horror, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, more

October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 Scix MaddixLeave a comment

October events! All of these events are either Scixxy’s Greater Shows events, or SGS is a part of the event in some fashion (often by being the livestreaming service)

Virtual Séance with mentalist Paul Draper: October 4, 11 and 18 at 7:30pm and 8:45pm (Mountain Time). Buy your tickets here. See Paul Draper at Fear Factory’s historic industrial location and learn about the history of the séance and experience a theatrical experience from your own home…

$40. Some coupon codes available (drop us a line and ask about it!)

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: October 19th at 6pm, at 6pm, 7:30pm and 9pm.

Experience this Interactive Fantasia of Undeath in the Dreamscapes immersive art space, featuring local performances in drag, opera, dance, haunted house, magic and more! 18+ only, Tickets are $25

Rocky Horror Picture Show: Check out the Latter Day Transvestites performing their annual shadowcast Rocky Horror Picture Show on OIctober 22nd, 23rd, and 29th (8 o’clock show Mountain time). With Tower Theater closed for the year, Rocky has moved to Alliance Theater in historic Trolley Square to dress up and perform for you. Tickets are selling fast!

As an extra feature, the entire show will also be livestreamed worldwide!

Kiki Cabaret: Haunted Discotheque:

Deceased folk like to dance too! Some of the creepy crawliest creatures of fright will be unearthing themselves on Halloween night …to get freaky on the dance floor and have a dead man’s kiki! and more….Come join the fatal festivities at the Haunted Discotheque with Kiki Cabaret at Alliance Theater!

Music, costumes, a spooky seance, and unearthly beings hanging from ceilings! Pick your Poison Pregame!
We’ll be having a hell of a good time for our adults only trick or treat pregame at DuVin Pintor winery inside (& upstairs) at Trolley Square. Treat us with your presence and trick us with your costume and we’ll supply the poison and games!

Pregame 5:30-6:30

Kiki Doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7pm (Mountain Time). You’ve been warned!

This show will also be livestreamed worldwide!

If you choose to ignore this invitation something terrible will happen to you….
You’ll miss all the fun!

Tickets on sale now. General admission is $30, while virtual seating is only $15. Seating is limited so act fast…or else.

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Gonzo Rising Fringe Fest finds its audience!

August 3, 2021 Scix MaddixLeave a comment

UtahTheaterBloggers.com tuned in to watch the livestream of the Hybrid show: Gonzo Rising Fringe Fest on Friday July 30 and published a stellar review!

SALT LAKE CITY — Over the past year or so, it feels like I’ve seen a million online performances. Scixxy’s Greater Shows’ Gonzo Rising: All-Weirdo Revue at the Alliance Theater is the first online performance that I truly wished I could have been in the live audience for—not because the livestream was bad, but because the live audience looked like so so so much fun. The show, available both in person and streaming on Twitch, is a series of variety acts performed by fantastic weirdo artists.
Sam Rust, Utah Theatre Bloggers

I am inclined to agree with every word of this glowing appraisal. It was (and is) an amazing performance by all involved, including the venue itself, Alliance Theater in Salt Lake City. The livestream turned out professional and fun, the show itself was one of our strongest to date, and the audience are all now fast fans.

Well done, Gonzo Rising family. Well done.

As I mentioned at the beginning, I really wish I could have seen this performance live, not only because it looked like such a great environment, but also because they mentioned that there were otter pops in the lobby afterwards.

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What is “Vaudeville Revival”?

May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 Scix MaddixLeave a comment

In short, it’s a return to vaudeville, a type of stage show that was popular 100 years ago. Modern talent struts and frets on the stage. Vaudeville Revival is distinct from New Vaudeville, which was a movement that sort of petered out in the 90s.

Vaudeville Revival includes a lot of burlesque, comedy, music, and a particular appreciation for “weirdo” acts, acts in the style of The Great Gonzo. Weird stuff, leaving the audience whether or not to laugh. Past weirdo acts from the Gonzo Rising series of shows include some dissipated clowns, gender-bending poetry, ballet-dancing dinosaurs, alien opera. You know, the good stuff.

And Vaudeville Revival also stands as a force against the homogenization of stage variety shows. Newcomers, LGBT performers, performers of all races, cultures and body types are welcome!

And vaudeville, of course, always has this benefit for theater-goers: if you don’t like the current act, wait 10 minutes and something totally different will appear!

Here in Salt Lake City (and virtually), look forward to some Vaudeville Revival out of the Alliance Theater, with some old Gonzo stars, puppets, edgy burlesquers, improv comics, clowns, and possibly a real, old-school revivalist.