Release Date: Tuesday, February 23rd 2010
March Madness at MADCAP Theaters
MADCAP Theaters has partnered up with ASU Gammage and the Tempe Center for the Arts to remind patrons that Downtown Tempe is the true entertainment hub of the Valley. Throughout the month of March, MADCAP will be hosting a tribute to the “The Rarest Greatness of Chuck Jones” in conjunction with the Tempe Center for the Arts exhibit honoring the late cartoonist, as well as showing the Oscar-nominated film, “Jesus Christ Superstar”, to celebrate the opening of the Broadway show at ASU Gammage in April. The collaboration of these entertainment venues will provide visitors and patrons with enhanced services that will allow them to experience the shows on a several different levels.
The Rarest Greatness of Chuck Jones: Unseen Awesome Animation
World-renowned film scholar and animation expert DENNIS NYBACK to MADCAP Theaters to explore the Unseen Awesome Animation of Chuck Jones on Saturday March 6th
Dennis Nyback returns to MADCAP Theaters for one night only to present a 16mm tribute to the pioneering animation of Chuck Jones. In a career that spanned almost seventy years, Jones made over 250 films, won four Academy Awards®, and was nominated for six others. Jones' razor-sharp eye for character movement, his legendary sense of timing, and his beguilingly irreverent wit have combined to create some of the classic cartoons of all time.
Nyback is pleased to present some of Jones’ unseen animation curiosities in this 80 minute tribute, which plays at MADCAP Theaters on Saturday March 6th at 5pm, 7pm and 9m, tickets are $10. The exclusive program will feature Gateway to the Mind a trippy Bell Telephone educational special featuring animation by Jones, as well as the much parodied musical ensemble One Froggy Evening. Rounding out the program will be the trio of Snafu educational/instructional shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during WW2; Coming Snafu, Spies and A Lesson on Camouflage. BUY TICKETS NOW
Jones also created and directed some of the most popular and critically-acclaimed animated television specials in the history of the medium, including Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears A Who, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Mowgli's Brothers, and The White Seal. In 1996, Jones' work was celebrated with a special Lifetime Achievement Oscar®, presented to him at the Academy Awards by Robin Williams.
This event runs in conjunction with the show Chuck Amuck: A Legacy of Laughter that runs from Feb 26 to June 18 at the Tempe Center of the Arts in collaboration with Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport; more information on this Chuck Jones exhibit can be found at http://www.tempe.gov/tca/jones.htm
MADCAP Theaters & ASU Gammage present a heavenly event with a screening of “Jesus Christ Superstar” on Thursday March 25
With Giveaways to the upcoming JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at ASU Gammage
“Jesus Christ Superstar” the 1973, Oscar-nominated film adaptation of the rock opera of the same name will play at MADCAP Theaters on Thursday March 25th at 7pm in conjunction with the upcoming JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at ASU Gammage. The film is based on the conflict between Judas and Jesus in the last weeks before the crucifixion of Jesus and was directed by Norman Jewison. Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson were nominated for two 1974 Golden Globe Award for their portrayals of Jesus and Judas, respectively. BUY TICKETS NOW
The first five individuals to buy a ticket to the screening online and the first five individuals to buy a ticket at the box office will each get a pair of tickets to come see JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at ASU Gammage which runs April 6 to April 11 (ten pair total will be given away). Tickets to the film are $8. All other attendees who buy a ticket will be entered to win free tickets to JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at ASU Gammage.
Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance, this film tells the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Iscariot. Too often mis-labeled a musical, this film is a "rock opera." There are no spoken lines, everything is sung.
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