Start your Halloween season off right with an epic team-up between Reverend Matt’s Monster Science and There’s a Crack in Everything! An evening of the facts you need about the monsters of horror, with extraordinary songs about those monsters and about various sundry terrors besides! Monster Science First Thursdays meets the ongoing There’s a Crack in Everything musical variety series, starring Penny and the Bandits! With very special guest musicians 10 Items or Fewer!
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 “effective, educational, funny, moving” by Cherry and Spoon, and Single White Fringe Geek said of it, “I could not stop grinning the whole time Rev. Matt was talking.”
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Jen Scott is a Twin Cities-based theater maker, musician, and teaching artist. She's worked as an actor, improviser, performer, teacher, playwright, director, storyteller, talk show host, producer, and musician. Jen founded, and is the only member of, the band Penny and the Bandits, where she drags unsuspecting local musicians into playing her songs. Jen has written almost one song per week since December 2020: Jen is nothing if not stubborn. She created the reoccuring show There's a Crack in Everything, at the Bryant Lake Bowl, featuring local musicians and word people.
10 Items or Fewer is music by Mike Hallenbeck & co. The music soaks 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 door
Doors are at 6:30 PM, come eat and drink in the theater before the show!
As of July 1st, the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater will no longer require proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 tests at the door. Click here for our current COVID-19 policy.