New year, new me!

December 26, 2021 Scix Maddix1 Comment

2022 will bring more safe and hybrid shows to Alliance Theater and Scixxy’s Greater Shows!

SGS fans have the opportunity to fill out this brief survey to let us know what you’re most excited to see in the coming year.

April 1-3 is the Utah Variety Arts Conclave, and we have a survey to gather information about what local variety artists would most like to see in panels and workshops. Topics may include how to make a career out of your act, producing shows, taxes, developing various performing skills, busking, and a show! Registration opens in the new year.

SOS Improv is returning! A 6-week cycle starting January 11 at Alliance Theater

Jan 11, 18, 25; Feb 1, 8, 15 at Alliance Theater in Trolley Square. 6:30pm. $10 per class or $50 for entire 6-week course. Scix Maddix, Nathan Sears and Karren Shamo with over 100 years combined experience

Repo! The Genetic Opera is showing at Alliance Theater with a shadowcast

What is a hybrid show?

Alliance Theater specializes in the hybrid show: a limited live audience with an extended livestream audience. Think late-night talk show, with a live audience in the theater, but most people watch from home. We don’t have advertisers, though, and I think that’s an advantage. Ticket prices are set by the producers of the individual show, but are generally accessible — especially for a high-quality livestream such as we produce!

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‘Tis the season!

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So much to choose from, as events start to open up. NOTE: most of these events are livestreamed, and in-house audiences are required to remain masked at this time.

Gotta Sing! students will be performing tonight

TONIGHT -12/13/2021 – The Gotta Sing! students are putting on a Christmas concert at Alliance Theater. Seats are for guests only, but they’ll be livestreaming it on Alliance Theater’s Twitch channel. I won’t link directly, because we’ve been having trouble with bots, but if you know Twitch, it’s easy to find us, the user name is the obvious one. If you like traditional, family-friendly Christmas music, tune in!

Is this the Lord of Misrule … or are YOU?

December 15, 16: – The Lord of Misrule is on! Raucous, wild, interactive and different every show, this entertaining and irreverent take on Christmas is raising funds for local homeless causes. Donations give the audience the power to alter the show. Livestreamed and in-theater audiences both participate and affect the outcome. Tickets are free, but must be reserved.

December 18: Kiki Cabaret presents: Jolly Jezebel Jubilee: not family-friendly at all, this take on holiday variety specials and cabaret is bringing the best of Utah’s local performing artists on stage at the most up-and-coming independent art theater in Salt Lake City! And as with most productions at Alliance, this show will also be livestreamed. If you’ve never had a cabaret in your home before, this might just be the time for it!

January 11 and every Tuesday for six weeks: SOS Improv is back! This six-week course brings Scix back, assisted by Nathan Sears and Karren Shamo, to start with the basics and build up to expert-level improv, with a focus on fun, flexibility and resilience that can be useful in all parts of your life. Safety and inclusion are priorities. Scholarships available, email scix@scixxysgreatershows.com to inquire.

Orphans Cabaret coming out of the wilderness

January 15: Kitté L’amour presents the Orphans Cabaret and local performers for Orphan’s Festivus. If you’ve never seen a Kitté L’amour show, you are missing out! Variety burlesque and a local band of slightly quirky, folksy, bluesy, rocksy musicians from out of the wilderness.

Repo! The Genetic Opera comes to Alliance Theater!

January 22, 23: It’s Repo! The Genetic Opera! the shadowcast that has been temporarily orphaned from Tower Theater is still at it, bringing this cult favorite to stage and screen. This highly-talented and professional cast bring an extra dimension to a movie that is already practically perfect! Livestream is free for this one, but get your seat tickets while you can, we expect to sell out!

A Nymph and Satyr frolicking at Lupercalia

February 27: Kiki Cabaret is back, with Kiki Cabaret Presents: Lupercalia. Little is known about this event so far, but tickets are onsale for Kiki fans eager to get in early, as these shows have begun to sell out. As with all Kikis, this one will also be livestreamed, for an inhouse experience unlike anything else you’ll find on screen!

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December’s upcoming events!

November 30, 2021March 14, 2022 Scix MaddixLeave a comment

Events roundup!

Utah Arts Alliance Bizarre Bazaar is open in South Town Mall — local artists and weirdos have a space to show off their stuff! And what else is happening there? Stay tuned to find out.

If you are an artist or know an artist who would like to try their hand at the gallery biz, send them to https://urbanartsgallery.org/artist-opportunities-2021/

At Alliance Theater – Utah Arts Alliance we have some cool stuff coming up!

Come check out Constellations on the 4th and 5th, an amazing and surreal play produced by Lightspeed Theatre Company. Alliance Theater’s first play! Warning, you might cry.

The 5th is Jacob‘s and Scix’s first anniversary! Not sure what we’re doing, but probably not much. The promised big reception will have to wait another year, we’re really comfortable enough with numbers to feel safe throwing a shindig.

On Thursday the 9th, the Mundi Project is having a free holiday concert!

Friday the 10th we’re having a night of comedy! Put together by our very own Paula Webster-Ravest, check back for more details soon!

December 12th’s Krampus Night celebration is cancelled, sorry to say, and we’re all disappointed, but for a variety of reasons this was not the time. HOWEVER, the Dreamscapes crew have a great show planned after the new year, so stay tuned!

December 15th and 16th is The Lord of Misrule, a fantastic production by RJ Walker. Tickets are free, donations will be accepted to help the local homeless population.

Kiki Cabaret returns Sunday the 19th (though date is subject to change), and I think that takes us through the end of the year. Quite a time!

Keep checking in for announcements for what’s coming up in 2022! Look for a return of Gonzo Rising, the Circus of the Strange, and SOS Improv, as well as more virtual and hybrid events available all across the planet!

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Coming up: Rocky Horror, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, more

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October events! All of these events are either Scixxy’s Greater Shows events, or SGS is a part of the event in some fashion (often by being the livestreaming service)

Virtual Séance with mentalist Paul Draper: October 4, 11 and 18 at 7:30pm and 8:45pm (Mountain Time). Buy your tickets here. See Paul Draper at Fear Factory’s historic industrial location and learn about the history of the séance and experience a theatrical experience from your own home…

$40. Some coupon codes available (drop us a line and ask about it!)

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: October 19th at 6pm, at 6pm, 7:30pm and 9pm.

Experience this Interactive Fantasia of Undeath in the Dreamscapes immersive art space, featuring local performances in drag, opera, dance, haunted house, magic and more! 18+ only, Tickets are $25

Rocky Horror Picture Show: Check out the Latter Day Transvestites performing their annual shadowcast Rocky Horror Picture Show on OIctober 22nd, 23rd, and 29th (8 o’clock show Mountain time). With Tower Theater closed for the year, Rocky has moved to Alliance Theater in historic Trolley Square to dress up and perform for you. Tickets are selling fast!

As an extra feature, the entire show will also be livestreamed worldwide!

Kiki Cabaret: Haunted Discotheque:

Deceased folk like to dance too! Some of the creepy crawliest creatures of fright will be unearthing themselves on Halloween night …to get freaky on the dance floor and have a dead man’s kiki! and more….Come join the fatal festivities at the Haunted Discotheque with Kiki Cabaret at Alliance Theater!

Music, costumes, a spooky seance, and unearthly beings hanging from ceilings! Pick your Poison Pregame!
We’ll be having a hell of a good time for our adults only trick or treat pregame at DuVin Pintor winery inside (& upstairs) at Trolley Square. Treat us with your presence and trick us with your costume and we’ll supply the poison and games!

Pregame 5:30-6:30

Kiki Doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7pm (Mountain Time). You’ve been warned!

This show will also be livestreamed worldwide!

If you choose to ignore this invitation something terrible will happen to you….
You’ll miss all the fun!

Tickets on sale now. General admission is $30, while virtual seating is only $15. Seating is limited so act fast…or else.

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Doctor Finnegan’s Circus featuring Le Carnivale Toxique

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Doctor Finnegan’s Circus Featuring Le Carnivale Toxique

for immediate release

9/12/2021 SALT LAKE CITY – Louisiana’s popular sideshow troupe, Doctor Finnegan’s Circus, is stopping on its national tour at Alliance Theater, in Salt Lake City’s Trolley Square on September 12th, for a 2pm matinee show. Opening for these rapscallions is Le Carnivale Toxique, fan favorite of The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival from The Puppets in the City.

Doctor Finnegan’s Circus is a comedy circus troupe specializing in American sideshow style entertainment, headed by Doctor Finnegan with Chip Rascal and The Reverend Sean Theroux.

This triop, dubbed the “Looney Tunes of Sideshow,” has been entertaining audiences of all ages from Boston to Austin and all around the country for over a decade with their modern theatrical twist on classic circus performances such as Sword Swallowing, Bed of Nails, and The Human Blockhead.Their performance at the 2019 Southern Sideshow Hootenanny in New Orleans, LA was awarded Top Performance amongst the nation’s very best performance artists.

Le Carnivale Toxique is a production of Puppets in the City, and explores what happens when would-be robbers discover a hidden carnival in the alley where they’re hiding. The weirdest, most wonderful show on Earth brings The Acrobats of O’possum Imposdiboe, the Fantastique Fishman, Madame Le Roche and the Giant Indestructible Tardigrade.

Puppets in the City is a non-profit performing and teaching company providing puppets, puppet shows, workshops and general puppetry skills, with professional puppeteers on hand to teach and train in the art of puppetry. They also create puppets, scripts and shows for all ages with themes of no bullying, multi-cultural tolerance, and encouraging/developing literacy.

Kenshin Taiko, a cultural Taiko drumming troupe, will be thundering up the audience with “Taiko Tyme.” Kenshin teaches the art of traditional Japanese Drumming, with classes and drop-in sessions.

Doctor Finnegan’s Circus Featuring Le Carnivale Toxique is being brought to Salt Lake City by Scixxy’s Greater Shows, a local small production company specializing in weird and untoward shows with a focus on variety, diversity and inclusion.

Alliance Theater is part of the Utah Arts Alliance, a Utah non-profit dedicated to fostering the arts in all forms to create an AWARE, EMPOWERED, and CONNECTED community.

This show will be livestreamed throughout the world, with an intimate studio audience at the theater where these stunning acts will be performing. Tickets are $10 for the livestream and $15 for a seat in theater.

Tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/dr-finnegan-s-circus-at-alliance-theater

Doctor Finnegan’s Circus: https://finneganscircus.com/

Puppets in the City: https://www.puppetsinthecity.org/

Kenshin Taiko: http://www.kenshintaiko.org/

Scixxy’s Greater Shows: https://scixxysgreatershows.com/

Alliance Theater: https://utaharts.org/alliance-theater/

Utah Arts Alliance: https://utaharts.org/

For any questions, call Scix Maddix at 385 419 8790 scix@scixxysgreatershows.com