Washington State University will present Squonk Opera on April 20 when it performs its off-Broadway show “Bigsmörgåsbørdwünderwerk” at Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum.
“Bigsmörgåsbørdwünkerwerk” is a performance of musical mayhem broadly based on the themes of food, eating and being eaten. This off-Broadway hit, created and performed by the Pittsburgh-based experimental theatre and music group Squonk Opera, is a visual spectacle and a multimedia frolic.
The show is set for 7:30 p.m. at Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum. Tickets are $7 each and free for WSU students with valid ID. Ticket can be purchased at all TicketsWest outlets, by phone at (800) 325-SEAT or online at www.beasley.wsu.edu. The show is appropriate for all ages.
Shattering the boundaries between music and theatrics, Squonk Opera (www.squonkopera.org) weaves performance together with a live music concert.
A critic from Time Out New York magazine called Squonk Opera “a blazingly unique spectacle! A flood of contraptions, visual jokes and gloriously eccentric music that would stretch even Tim Burton’s imagination.”
Squonk Opera created its first show nine years ago in a Pittsburgh junkyard with roaring choreographed cranes and earthmovers. Its fifth production, “Bigsmörgåsbørdwünkerwerk,” made the leap to Broadway and received an American Theater Wing Special Effects Design Award.
Squonk Opera is a non-profit organization out of Pittsburgh, Pa. It made its international debut last year at Scotland’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has since toured Belgium and South Korea.
The event is sponsored by the WSU Visual, Performing and Literary Arts Committee as a part of this year’s thematic series “Crossing Boundaries.”
VPLAC is funded by service and activities fees with in-kind support from the Office of Campus Involvement and the School of Music and Theatre Arts.
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