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Mary Jo to Guest at Master PancakeIf you find yourself in the vicinity of Austin, Tex., this weekend or next, Mary Jo will be guest riffer at Master Pancake Theater at the Alamo Draft House. The movie they’ll be riffing is the greatest chick flick ever, “The Sound of Music.” (For those who don’t know, Master Pancake Theater is a live movie riffing show that has been running very successfully in Austin for years. I’ve never seen ’em, but I hear it’s great.) 18 Replies to “Mary Jo to Guest at Master Pancake”Commenting at Satellite News
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MARY JO!!!!!!!!!!! Why are these shows always so far away…its breaking my heart!
So, let me get this straight…….Mary Jo will be riffing the most successful movie musical of the 60’s, at a Pancake house theater located in an Alamo beer hall ???
Does that mean I’ll be able to order a suds to go with my stack of ‘cakes, if I would want to ???
I’m very confused…… :-/
Let me know when they do ‘Schindler’s List’.
…or “Saving Private Ryan”
It’s Mary Jo, expect a lot of standard “Julie Andrews sweetness and light” bashing. 9_9
(Not that I have anything against MJ as opposed to Pearl Forrester–met Mary in person at a CT and she’s funny and likable–but it’s not hard to the symbolic comic targets…
Most of them left-over DNA memories from the 60’s, when the movie was in theaters for four years, and after a while, audiences began wishing Julie would just stop romping around those darn hills…”Happy Nazi musical” jokes also began springing up out of annoyance, very possibly leading to the one you’re thinking of.)
Bet there’ll be riffs aplenty during “Edelweiss”
Or, as Forbidden Broadway proved, “So Long, Farewell” offers much more rich territory for wrong-relyricizing. :)
Any chance they’ll recordiung the riffing for those who can’t get there?
Please don’t call that horrible pain parade a “chick flick.” I was forced to watch that movie on a bus ride a long time ago and I nearly threw myself out the window. I HATE SINGING IN MOVIES!!!
That is really funny. I remember an old Sci-Fi Channel interview where they asked her to name a movie they could never do and her answer was The Sound of Music! I guess she didn’t mean it. Mike’s answer was Trial of the Incredible Hulk. He upstaged her with a funnier answer.
Kevin wrote lovingly about attending a sing-along Sound Of Music (in London, IIRC) in his excellent Year At The Movies book.
Of course, you all knew that already, as you’ve all read Kevin’s wonderful book many, many times.
Thinking about Julie Andrews’ sweetness and light image — I don’t get where that comes from.
Eliza Doolittle is nothing like that.
Mary Poppins is a very subversive character.
And her later movies with Blake Edwards – 10, SOB, Victor/Victoria..no sweetness and light anywhere.
Is her entire image gleaned from The Sound of Music?
I hate The Sound of Music because my mom complained that me and my brother weren’t nearly as obedient as the kids in the movie. Plus I hate musicals.
To #2, I live just outside of Austin and the Alamo Drafthouse theaters are a lot of fun and great way to watch a film. They are regular movie theaters (but with only one or two screens instead of the multiplexes) and every other row of seats has been removed and replaced with a long bar running down the row. You can order real food (not just movie snacks) and drinks while you watch the film. That may sound intrusive but it’s not. You put up a piece of paper where the the waiters can see it and they sneak by and take your order that way. You have a lot more leg room and they show both new movies as well as old ones. They also have theme events like Weird Wednesday and Terror Thursday. They do sing-a-long events too for different musical films or they’ll do a mish-mash of videos from the 80s and 90s and people watch and sing a long. The one downtown was opened a year or two ago in a theater originally built in 1929 and was Austin’s first theater that was built specifically to show talking pictures. They renovated it and it’s really a fun place to watch a movie.
I’ll bet she’ll blow the really tall roof off that place! :D Oh… wait. :( I’m thinking International House of Pancakes.
Best Sound of Music parody I think I’ve ever seen was what The Kids in the Hall did.
I love musicals, and I love The Sound of Music, but even great movies can make for terrific riffing fodder (e.g., Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, Star Wars, etc.), so I bet fun will be had by all in Austin.
think this is the same group that started Mister Sinus Theatre or some name close to Mystery Science Theatre that riffed movies there when I saw them in 2003? The Brains or someone associated with MST3K “sued” them due to the name similariy and obvious takeoff, hense the name change to Master Pancake Theatre. I don’t remember details so don’t quote me on this. But if it is same group, I saw them riff the movie Top Gun at Alamo Draft House. (“Gay Watch Check” was the re-occuring riff line)
Mary Jo, living near there, and MST3K alumni, is obvious choice for guest riffer.
“They” changed the name from Mr Sinus Theater because two of the three members, Jerm and Owen, moved on to other things. The remaining member (John) teamed up with several others to start this new show, Master Pancake Theater. The closest they came to being sued was when a kite company that used to make a $1.99 kite called Mr Sinus, challenged their use of the oddly familiar image. Here’s a sample of what got them in trouble: http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Calendar/LuvDoc?oid=oid:190909