Santa and Jesus Team to Fight Big Oil and the Record Companies to Save the North Pole in THE LAST CHRISTMAS
From the team that created FORKING!and A Merry FORKING! Christmas (playwright Daniel Heath, director Christy Crowley, and producer PianoFight), comes the world-premiere holiday action-musical, The Last Christmas. When oil companies threaten to drill in the North Pole, Santa embarks on a mission to save his workshop and Christmas. Teaming up with an idealistic street musician, her ass-kicking sister, and Jesus, this unlikely quartet enters a battle of the bands with a grand prize big enough to buy Santa's workshop AND the North Pole. But with the oil companies tilting the scales, an evil contest host, and a young pop princess primed to win, can Santa and his rag tag crew rescue the holidays? The Last Christmas runs Wednesdays through Saturdays, December 8 through 23, at 7pm at PianoFight, 144 Taylor Street, San Francisco. Tickets are $20 - $50 and can be purchased at www.pianofight.com
After a smashingly successful five-year run of their first holiday collaboration, A Merry FORKING! Christmas, Heath and Crowley are once again skewering the holidays - this time with music and fighting. Says PianoFight Artistic Director Rob Ready, "These two have been incredibly successful at making great shows and having serious laughs at the expense of holiday insanity, so it only made sense to give it another whirl." Crowley, who has been focused on her cowboy poetry podcast The Cowboy Pages (thecowboypages.com) received the final draft of Last Christmas two days before the birth of Heath's second child. On getting the script finished in time Heath said, "It's motivating when you've got a the hard deadline of childbirth on the horizon." PIANOFIGHT is San Francisco's landmark entertainment venue for indy arts, housing a full service restaurant and bar with a cabaret stage and two intimate theaters. We present New Work by New Artists, most of which is local. Shows run the gamut from world-premiere plays to inventive sketch comedy, choose-your-own-ending plays to audience-judged theater competitions, improv to variety shows, dance, live podcasts, film screenings, game shows and more. Plus we usually have a live band playing on our cabaret stage before and after shows, and the staff is super friendly.
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