"Mama Fou"--a secretive spokesbeing for the group--has promised to treat us to a stage spectacular featuring "Three Top Fous." We don't know what a "Top Fou" is, or if it is better than a "Bottom Fou" or a "Middle Fou." But the prospect of an onstage Foumage A Tois should be enough to get you out of church and into the SOMArts Theater by the break of noon.
Mama Fou has also promised a "walk around" from Noon to 12:30. A "walk around" is a highly-technical performance term that may not be familiar to lay-theatre-goers. The simplest way to approximate the arcane theater jargon of "walk around" might be thusly: A group of "performers" in "character" engage to "walk" "around" among audience members before the show officially begins. While the "performers" "walk" "around" they "perform" impromptu "skits" involving audience members. This often results in bemusement, sometimes even in merriment.
Of course, if we were hard-bitten skeptics, we might suspect that the Fous were engaging in the "walk-around" to facilitate their own access to all of the champagne that will be on-hand (and which will NOT be available backstage in the dressing rooms).
Their appearance at Sunday At SOMArts will give you a taste of what to expect at FouFouHa's forthcoming HUGE endeavor: the Fous will give seven performances of The Dynamite Show at Brava Theatre from June 17 through June 26. This is a “wildly unique” (NBC) song and dance review best described as Fame meets the Muppets. This up-beat musical spectacle features live neo-vaudevillian Dixie brass band tunes with “jaw-dropping dance numbers” and slapstick antics. It follows the colorful characters of Fou Fou Ha! to Hollywood, as they are invited to audition for a reality-TV talent competition. They go through many dance numbers ranging from tangos to rock-opera tunes and finally audition in front of a panel of judges (cameos played by REAL local celebrity performers TBA) only to realize that their “foolishness” may not have a place in the status quo.
Tickets bought for The Dynamite Show prior to May 15 cost $15 and are available here:
Dynamite Tickets Link
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