Synopsis:
Beginning July 6th, Point Break LIVE! begins performances at
Fat City
For the Point Break LIVE! in LA, click here
Point Break LIVE!, is the
absurdist stage adaptation of the 1992 Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze extreme-sports blockbuster that tells the story of former College
football star, Johnny Utah, in pursuit of the surfing, bank robbing, skydiving, bare-hand-fighting adrenaline-junkie-cum-Zen-master Bodhi
Sattva. Since it's Seattle debut in 2003, Point Break Live! has 'rawked' sell-out crowds in Minneapolis, and New York City, and it
continues strong after six-months in Los Angeles to rave reviews, with all shows sold out two weeks in advance.
Point Break LIVE! features armed robbery, big-wave surfing, car chases, explosions, no less than two extended skydiving sequences and
an indoor monsoon. This "action" play offers a true cathartic experience, putting you in the water with the surfers, throwing you
out the door of an airplane, and robbing you at gunpoint. Add in the hotness factor - surfer dudes and female stunt doubles - and you have
a night of live theater that rivals anything by Samuel Beckett in terms of pure excitement and energy.
The starring role of Johnny Utah is selected from the audience each night, and reads their entire script off of cue-cards. This method manages to capture the rawness of a Keanu Reeves performance, even from those who generally think themselves incapable of acting. The fun starts immediately with the "screen test," wherein the volunteer
Keanus (usually 5-15 men and women vie for the role), go through a grueling audition process. The part is then cast via Applaus-o-Meter.
The audience doesn't just watch Point Break LIVE!; they are in it. So, "Survival Kits " are issued before the start of the show.
"Survival Kits " contain items to help audience members participate in "the ultimate ride," and include a plastic emergency poncho to protect the viewers from the action that literally spills forth from the stage. It's a messy show, it's suggested you leave your fineries at home, but, that's part of the fun, Brah.
Action, you say? There's so much action, it can't be contained in the theater! The stage action is videoed and played through a real-time live feed on TV monitors set to the side of the stage. Via
the "Keanu Kam ," the audience can keep track of the volunteer Keanu when the action bursts out onto the street! At the end of the performance, the "volunteer Keanu," is handed a VHS tape of his or her performance.
Will you have fun? We can slap ourselves on the back all day long till we dislocate our shoulders, but we'd rather let a batch of credible 'Jimmy Olsens' put in some rawkin' knarly props about Point Break Live!
"In a nutshell: About the most dead-on dose of
hilarity to ever be on stage." LA.COM
"So hideously over the top, you can't stop laughing." - LA WEEKLY
"Can only be described as all-encompassing, wet, interactive, loud, extreme, and altogether
awesome." - LA2Day.com
"Point Break LIVE! shamelessly rides the
gnarly breakers of travesty until viewers wipe out on the shoals of helpless laughter." - LA TIMES
$15 tickets on Thursday June 12, 19, 26.
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