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Posted by Heidi on December 22, 2008
Reminder: there is no monkey show tonight! Sadness!
Our friends the Neo-Futurists have a wonderful show tonight, but there is no “That’s Weird, Grandma” performance. We’re back next week!
Thanks for being a monkey friend.
Posted by Heidi on December 16, 2008
Reminder: There is a special holiday performance of “That’s Weird, Grandma” this Saturday, December 20th at 2pm.
It’s going to be a good one, so buy your tickets in advance!
Posted by Heidi on December 13, 2008
The holiday round of TWG is always one of my favorites, and you only have 4 more chances to see most of these seasonal stories before next year You will like it.
How could you resist this*?
*in the interests of full disclosure, none of the very talented folks in this picture are in the show right now.
The full running order is after the jump, and as always you can buy your tickets online.
Reminder: There is no Monday night show on December 22nd. We have added a matinee on Saturday December 20th, and tickets are going fast.
Posted by Heidi on December 8, 2008
Now with even more holiday spirit!
This week is the first BOM show since June that doesn’t feature Astronauts (can you be-lieve it?). If this makes you sad, you can always ask us to bring it back after the holidays. In the meantime, we’ve added even more seasonal joy with “Monica’s Special Christmas Eve”.
In the spirit of valuing education, we’re also adding an untitled story about wanting to be a teacher—the first story we’ve added from our collaboration with the A.G. Bell Association last year.
As always, you can buy your tickets online in advance, or call 312-409-1954 to make a reservation.
Special reminder: We will not have a regular Monday performance on December 22nd. Instead, we will have a special holiday matinee on Saturday, December 20th at 2:00pm.
Full running order after the jump!
Posted by Lacy on December 2, 2008
On behalf of Barrel of Monkeys, the core group of sports fans IN Barrel of Monkeys, and pretty much anyone who enjoys encouraging anyone anywhere, I want to send out a huge shoutout to 16-year-old Eri Yoshida. That girl just became the first female professional baseball player ever. And I think that is totally rad.
Speaking of rad and baseball, there’s a pretty rad baseball story in That’s Weird, Grandma right now (see how I tied those together? That’s a college degree at work there, friends) about a kid going to see a White Sox game and meeting the players. We’re always in a sticky situation when we have to present actual well-known celebrities on stage, but I think we did a pretty good job with this one.
For instance, the kid met Jermaine Dye (played by Donnell):
He met Bobby Jenks (played by Curtis):
and he also met Frank Thomas (naturally, played by Tai):
Hey, Monkeys? Next year, when all the kids are writing about her, I’m calling all the Eri Yoshida parts RIGHT NOW.
