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I know it is not really music but since the guy opened for Ryan Adams at the Concert Disney Hall last month, will perform in a place ordinary reserved for concerts, and, last but not least, embodied Jim Morrison as nobody else could have done it, I thought this was worth noticing:
Val Kilmer will be Mark Twain in Citizen Twain in the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
The workshop performance is in fact a play written and directed by Val Kilmer, a complete one man show played over the course of two weekends, and followed each time by a Q&A with the artist!
This is how the play was described:
‘Deeply entertaining, with great wit, song and prose, the play weaves Twain’s biographical themes into a play that proclaims and takes joy in the marvel of words, which, as Twain says in the play, “Form the ladder to my heaven.” Storytelling was a lifeline for Twain, and in Kilmer’s Citizen Twain, this lifeline continues into and after Twain’s death, making it an appropriate choice to perform the show in The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.’
Here are the schedules of the performances:
Friday, March 23rd, 2012 – doors 7pm – show 8pm
Saturday, March 24th, 2012 – doors 7pm – show 8pm
Sunday, March 25th, 2012 – Matinee – doors 2pm – show 3pm
Sunday, March 25th, 2012 – doors 7pm – show 8pm
Friday, March 30th, 2012 – doors 7pm – show 8pm
Saturday, March 31st, 2012 – doors 7pm – show 8pm
Sunday, April 1st, 2012 – Matinee – doors 2pm – show 3pm
Sunday, April 1st, 2012 – doors 7pm – show 8pm
Tickets are $60 on sale at: http://hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com
If you want a pre-taste of it, Val Kilmer had already created a short film in honor of The Mark Twain House & Museum's 2010 Gala, and in the video he performs excerpts from Mark Twain's legendary speech delivered at Delmonico's in New York City on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Kilmer really loves the great American novelist!
