The Red Clay Ramblers & The Coastal Cohorts / Dec 9-11, Cat’s Cradle
Carrboro, NC — The Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers and the celebrated Coastal Cohorts of King Mackerel musical renown take the Cat’s Cradle Back Room stage together for three nights celebrating musicians’ theatre, Weds, Thurs, Fri, December 9th-11th, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. each evening.
The year 2015 marks several musicians’ theatre anniversaries: the 40th since the Ramblers joined a troupe including co-authors Jim Wann and Bland Simpson in a triumphant NYC run of Diamond Studs; the 30th since the Ramblers scored and performed in Sam Shepard’s New York hit A Lie of the Mind, while Cohorts Don Dixon, Wann & Simpson premiered King Mackerel here in NC; the 20th since the Ramblers ran their award-winning clown-mime hit Fool Moon the second time On Broadway, and since the Cohorts also put King Mackerel onto the New York boards. And so on . . .
The Ramblers-Cohorts band will also celebrate their latest collaborative project, Jim Wann’s newest album, Blue Heaven, which all hands joined in recording at Chapel Hill’s Rubber Room earlier this year.
Personnel for the Cat’s Cradle evenings are: Clay Buckner (fiddle); Don Dixon (bass); Chris Frank (guitar, tuba); Jack Herrick (bass, trumpet); Rob Ladd (drums); Bland Simpson (piano); and Jim Wann (guitar).
Ticket information: http://www.catscradle.com/
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This one-of-a-kind show is a unique comedy featuring two grandmasters of physical lunacy in an evening of sly humor, chaos, and music with The Red Clay Ramblers. Created by Bill Irwin and David Shiner, Fool Moon was awarded a special Tony award in 1999, a Drama Desk Award for “Unique Theatrical Experience,” and an Outer Critics Circle “Special Achievement” Award. The New York Times called the show “sensational;” Time Magazine called Irwin and Shiner “magicians of the human body. They are exquisite.” The show was first performed at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, in the Serious Fun Festival in July 1992. As “Fool Moon,” it next appeared at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway for an eight-month run in 1993 (winning the Ramblers a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play), then went on to set box-office records at the Doolittle Theatre in Los Angeles (’94). It played Vienna and Munich (’94), Broadway again (’95), and, in the fall of 1998, “Fool Moon” ran at ACT in San Francisco and Seattle Rep in Seattle, returned to Broadway Nov. ’98-Jan. ’99, and went to Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center for spring, 1999. The creators and company of Fool Moon received a Special Tony Award at the Gershwin Theater in New York City, June 1999.