Gustafer Yellowgold's Show Returns to the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre 11/20

It's been two years in the making and won't be released until February, but NYC area families will have a sneak preview before Thanksgiving, when the multimedia Gustafer Yellowgold's Show returns home to the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th St., NYC, at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 20, on Gustafer's "Top of the Sock Tour." This show, featuring full band, is part of the Symphony Space "Just Kidding" series.

Gustafer Yellowgold's Top of the Sock Tour heralds the release of the fourth in the series of award-winning Gustafer Yellowgold "musical moving storybooks," Gustafer Yellowgold's Infinity Sock, in which our hero from the sun journeys in search of the end of the universe's longest sock. This fall's shows will preview several story-songs from the new DVD/CD set, and Gustafer's creator, illustrator/songwriter/musicIan Morgan Taylor, promises to include plenty of "Gustafer fan favorites" in the shows, too.

Hailed as one of today's most original artists on the family music scene, Morgan Taylor was named "Best Kids' Performer" by New York Magazine. Taylor developed the Gustafer Yellowgold experience as equal parts pop rock concert and minimally animated movie, performing alongside a large screen displaying vividly colored animations with karaoke-style subtitles. He's dreamed up a whole world of catchy, original story-songs about Gustafer, a friendly creature who came to Earth from the sun and now lives out an explorer's life in a slightly psychedelic version of the Minnesota woods. Gustafer resides in a cottage with his menagerie of friends, including a pet eel, a tuxedo-wearing pterodactyl, and a dragon named Asparagus who inhabits the fireplace and loves corn on the cob. For recreation, Gustafer enjoys jumping on cake and, occasionally, punching cheese.

Since his creation in 2005, Gustafer Yellowgold has become an international phenomenon, praised by Newsweek as "full of great pop tunes and hand-drawn animation about a li'l fella from the sun." The Los Angeles Times enthused, "Taylor's whimsical, lightly psychedelic world forms an interesting bridge between adult and kids' music." The Washington Post declared, "He's a star on stage and screen! ... The mix of catchy tunes and offbeat stories has endeared Taylor, and Gustafer, to teenagers as well." The Chicago Tribune wrote, "Gustafer Yellowgold has made kids' music so cool that teenagers and ultra-hip bands such as Wilco want to get in on the act ... a shiny blend of pop art and pop tunes."

Gustafer is not just for kids! Possessing an unusual crossover appeal, Gustafer Yellowgold's Show has performed as the support act for WILCO and The Polyphonic Spree. Gustafer has been seen off-Broadway in his own production, Gustafer Yellowgold's Mellow Sensation. Tours to performing arts centers, concert halls, theatres, festivals, museums, libraries, and cinemas have taken Gustafer across the U.S., the U.K., and even to Korea.

WHAT: GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD'S SHOW
WHERE: Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, NYC.
WHEN: Saturday, November 20. 11:00 a.m.
TICKETS: $25 adults ($21 members; $27 day of show) $15 kids ($13 members; $17 day of show)
INFO: (212) 864-5400 www.symphonyspace.org

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