Reverend Matt’s Monster Science teams up with actual post-skiffle band 10 Items or Fewer for an evening of kaiju - giant monsters assaulting our lovely cities! See Reverend Matt’s famous comedy lecture stylings on the history and lore of the kaiju, and watch 10 Items or Fewer celebrate their epic deeds with songs both classic and original! Plus Reverend Matt analyzes the songs for their factual content, as ought to happen with all pop songs, and we find out if we can summon Mothra! AND extraordinary special guests Jen Scott and Sam Landman! Come and see!
“Kaiju Electric Battle Masterpiece” is the latest installment of Monster Science First Thursdays - Reverend Matt’s Monster Sciences ongoing monthly show at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater. Reverend Matt – once called a combination of David Attenborough and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark in MPR – played by local comedian Matthew Kessen, is the star of “Reverend Matt’s Monster Science” (‘part science, part comedy, all monsters’), a multimedia series of deep studies of the lore of monsters, infused with comedy jokes. It has won Best Solo Show at the Tucson Fringe Festival twice, and Best of Minnesota at the 2020 MN Webfest. And it’s been called “a guaranteed crowd-pleaser” and “a blazing comet of edutainment” by the Racket, and Single White Fringe Geek said of it, “I could not stop grinning the whole time Rev. Matt was talking.”
10 Items or Fewer is music by Mike Hallenbeck & co. The songs soak post-skiffle X-treme folk in the depths of flyover country and psychedelia– harboring lyrics about dinosaurs, mammoths, Evel Kneivel, Star Wars, a crashed Russian space station, and Planet of the Apes. Before he exited the Witness Protection Program, Hallenbeck was known back in the day for his work as leader of Mike Merz & the Can O’ Worms— honored as Songwriter of the Year by City Pages until Mason Jennings moved into the Songwriter’s Mansion the year after.
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Tickets are $10 in advance / $12 at the doors
Doors open at 6PM, come eat and drink in the theater before and during the show!