NCTC Presents SHOW HO, Closes 10/9

NCTC is proud to present Show Ho starring Sara Moore. The show will close on October 9, 2011: Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm and on Sunday October 9, 2011 at 2pm. All performances will take place at The New Conservatory Theatre Center (Walker Theatre), located at 25 Van Ness Avenue, near Market St. in San Francisco, 94102. Tickets range from $20 - $32, and are available at the NCTC Box Office (415) 861-8972, or online at www.nctcsf.org.

ABOUT THE SHOW
Show Ho is the multi-character tour de force of comedienne and performance artist Sara Moore. This hilarious and poignant story follows her quirky clown alter-ego, Rhonda Hammerstein, and her travels in a low-rent circus. The Big Top sanctuary provides a haven for those too weird or strange or queer to live anywhere else. In this backstage world, Rhonda finds a home on this "island of misfit toys."Facing love, sex, death, and thrills, Rhonda embraces her inner dork, and always manages to come out swinging.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

SARA MOORE enjoys a diverse and often outrageous career in the performing arts. An acclaimed and award winning physical comedienne, actor, director and circus professional, she has created, directed and performed material for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Krofft Puppets, Royal Caribbean International, The New Pickle Circus, Six Flags Show Productions, and Merv Griffin's Resorts Casino and Hotels, among others. She has opened for and performed alongside such greats as Chita Rivera, Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, Sammy Cahn and others while working for Mr. Griffin. In New York she has performed Off-Broadway as the singing Valerie Solanas in the world premiere of Solanas' lost play, as Nick Bottom in The Vital Theatre's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and with LaMama, P.S. 122 and Ars Nova. Here in the glorious Bay Area she has appeared with the Aurora Theatre, Center Rep, Theatre Rhinoceros, George Coates Performance Works, SOMArts Theater, Thrillpeddlers, The Rrazz Room and here at NCTC. In fact, she was nominated for both Best Actress and Best Supporting by the Bay Area Critics Circle in the same year but lost to Holly Hunter! Sara continues to perform her very successful and critically acclaimed one-woman show, Show Ho, for audiences east and west. The marathon performance showcases Moore's "unparalleled gift for morphing" - Theatre Bay area Magazine and "Moore proves a comedic powerhouse in the vaudeville tradition with shades of everyone from Fanny Brice to Carol Burnett to Tim Conway." - Bay Guardian. As a filmmaker and playwright, her debut feature film Homo Heights (writer/director) garnered ecstatic reviews and is available on the HERE network. Sara has been the recipient of several awards and commissions from The McKnight Independent Film Fund, The Jerome Foundation and The Playwrights Foundation, among others. And most currently, Sara is Artistic Director of Barbary Coast Amusements, a San Francisco-based amusement-entertainment company specializing in "thrill ride theatre" for the adventurous audience! She is also insanely proud to be one-half of the comedy duo Phillis & Moore with her stage brother, Michael Phillis, with whom she just starred in his critically acclaimed play Wish We Were Here at New Conservatory. Next up, Barbary Coast Amusements will produce Sara's new play Cyclones, a manic piece of narrative clowning about the cosmology of rollercoasters, starring herself with the wonderful Joan Mankin and the magnificent Rhodessa Jones. And look for the new Phillis & Moore show coming soon to NCTC!

ABOUT BARBARY COAST AMUSEMENTS
Barbary Coast Amusements, an artist collaborative consisting of clowns and circus performance artists, is San Francisco's producer of "thrill ride theatre!" They create entertainment that captivates the spirit with visually, audibly, eccentrically, and soulfully constructed stories. Barbary Coast Amusements believes in taking their audience on true adventures while celebrating their performers themselves as human amusements. During its first year of operation, Barbary Coast Amusements has produced seven major events at SOMArts Theater, with virtually every variety artist in the Bay Area taking the stage for its Vaudeville Brunch Series. Now in its second season, Barbary Coast Amusements is moving into the realm of narrative physical theatre and producing Sara Moore's Cyclones, a science fiction clown musical about the cosmology of rollercoasters. Whether it's a one-person, multi-character circus show, "brunch theatre," or a full-scale musical, Barbary Coast Amusements is committed to producing live theatre that entrances and enchants.

SHOW: NCTC presents Show Ho starring Sara Moore.

WHEN: The show previews Thursday September 8, 2011. The show opens on Friday, September 9, 2011 and runs through October 9, 2011: Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm. Sunday October 9, 2011 at 2pm.

WHERE: New Conservatory Theatre Center (Walker Theatre) located at 25 Van Ness Ave. at Market St. in San Francisco, 94102.

TICKETS: $20-$32. Available at NCTC's Box Office (415) 861 8972, or online at www.nctcsf.org.