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Update: Josh Interview + New CT Dates

UPDATE: According to this story, they’ve been booked for Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, at the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center in York, Pa.

Alan Scherstuhl at SF Weekly interviews Josh ahead of tonight’s Cinematic Titanic show in San Franciscky.

And, by the way, they’re a long way off, but the Titans have announced some more performance dates:

* Friday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m. at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the U.C. Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, Calif. Get tickets here.
* Satuday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m. at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa, Calif. Tickets not yet on sale.
* Saturday, Nov. 12, 8 p.m. at the Meyer Theatre, 117 South Washington St. in Green Bay, Wis. Tickets not yet available.
* Friday, Dec. 30, 8 p.m. at the Keswick Theater, 291 North Keswick Ave. in Glenside (suburban Philadelphia), Pa. Tickets not yet available.

And hey, if you know of a great venue for a Cinematic Titanic performance, tell the people at the venue to contact CT’s booking agent. The contact information to give them is here. Get your friends to do it too! Use peer pressure!

Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite MSTed Movie Scores/Soundtracks

The other day alert regular “Mr B(ob)” pointed me this and I ended up following the name of the company that made it back to their basic but interesting site. These guys LOVE monster movie soundtracks! Most of their titles are the actual soundtracks from the movies, but in a few cases they have actually dug up the original sheet music, assembled an orchestra and re-recorded the soundtrack! They did this here, here, here, here and — most interesting to MST3K fans — here! Sing along to this little ditty.

All of which got me to thinking: What’s MSTed movie has such a great score/soundtrack that you’d buy a CD of it? I don’t mean songs that the characters sing. I talking about the instrumental score. And which one is do you really hate?

I suspect the Hercules movies and the Russo-Finnish titles will probably be the favorites. The score to the “Day the Earth Froze” is pretty impressive. For worst, I’d have to go with the “buppa-duppa” mess of “Danger! Death Ray!” How about you?

New Short from RiffTrax…

This one gets a little dark…you know, the way we like it…

See a sample and download the whole thing here.

Play Co-Written by Bill to Be Performed in Orlando

The play “My Monster,” co-written by Bill Corbett and Joseph Scrimshaw, will have seven performances beginning Friday, May 20, as part of the Orlando Fringe Festival, in the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 East Rollins St. in Orlando. More information here.

Here’s an interview with the director.

Another Show at the Colonial

The historic Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, Pa., has been showing MST3K episodes about once a month, and the next one is slated for Friday, May 20, at 9:45 p.m. The episode will be 1008- FINAL JUSTICE. There will be a “Cowboy/Joe Don Baker” costume contest beforehand (the winner gets a recent MST3K box set from Shout! Factory). More information here.