Les Freres Corbusier returns with HERE'S HOOVER!: THE HISTORIC HERBERT HOOVER 2014 COMEBACK SPECIAL
Most Americans think two things about Herbert Hoover:
1. He was one of our worst Presidents.
2. He's dead.
A concert performance piece at Abrons Art Center --- After stewing for 80 years in political disgrace (and presumed death), Herbert Hoover is taking the stage one more time this December — to reclaim his legacy and save America in the process.
Elvis' iconic 1968 “Comeback Special” serves as direct inspiration for Hoover's own interactive, badass concert resurrection. Herbert’s tanned, rested, and ready to rock your balls off. Award-winning downtown theater company Les Freres Corbusier wages an argument for one of our most incorrectly maligned presidents in this uproarious new concert performance piece. Les Freres creates aggressively visceral theatre, combining historical revisionism, multimedia excess, found texts, sophomoric humor, and rigorous academic research. They are devoted to the notion of a populist theatre that rejects the shy music, seamless dramaturgy, and muted performance style of the 20th century in favor of the anarchic, the rude, the juvenile, and video game-driven spectacle.
Their works include Broadway’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Shakespeare in the Park’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (developed in collaboration with the Public Theater), A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, Heddatron, Hell House, Dance Dance Revolution, among others. Written by Sean Cunningham with songs by Michael Friedman, and directed by Alex Timbers. Produced by SallyCade Holmes with choreography by Danny Mefford.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM
