Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Oak Cliff’s Texas Theatre serves up silent shorts, live musical accompaniment this Saturday
Singapore Slingers Swanky Serenade
- Sat
- Oct
- 25th
- 7PM
- Texas Theatre
- 231 West Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas
- $3 - $8
- Age limit: All ages
On Sat., Oct. 25 from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. at Oak Cliff's storied Texas Theatre, the Singapore Slingers (not to be confused with the the basketball team) will play a set of "retro-foxtrot" favorites (?) as a lead-in to three silent film shorts.
The Slingers ensemble includes accordions, tubas, banjos and various stringed instruments. (Judging by their promo photo, I'm also expecting a guitar and several saxophones.) Should be a big sound, and this might very well prove to be an understatement.
The silent films which follow - to be accompanied by the piano stylings of Robert Edwards - include comedies by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.
Sounds like a fun evening at an historic venue. Tickets are $8 for adults and $3 for children under twelve, with the proceeds benefiting the restoration of the Texas Theatre. You may purchase tics online or at the door on the evening of the performance.
posted by JM
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alexander troup, says:
IT is about time, they began to open up the Texas Theatre, and use it again,, for the right reason, Keaton, Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, and with live music, that is the wisdom art movie house should present, while can the Cliff become a culture sanna bath and allow the better things to life grow or become sluggish dreams....the Texas Theatre comming out of a long sleep.... Good luck, Alexander Troup, Humor Historian.
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