"Magnum Opus Theatre": Hilariously Awful Film Scripts, Live on Stage

Magnum Opus Theatre: Hilariously Awful Film Scripts, Live on Stage

Sacred Fools Theater, at Melrose Ave (660 N. Heliotrope Los Angeles, CA 90004)

Full Price:: $10.00 - $15.00

Our Price:: $5.00 - $7.50*

4.5 by 73 members

Sacred Fools presents Magnum Opus Theatre, their long-running show with an ardent cult following. Hundreds of untrained writers from around the world send their unsolicited, unregistered scripts to Hollywood production companies in the hopes that their story will rise above the rest to be made into a feature film. Most never get read, until now. The talented cast of Magnum Opus Theatre presents word-for-word staged productions of these unbelievably awful screenplays, compressed but otherwise unaltered.

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The last date listed for Magnum Opus Theatre was Friday July 6, 2012 / 11:00pm.

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Sacred Fools Theater

at Melrose Ave,

660 N. Heliotrope

Los Angeles, CA 90004

Website

310-281-8337

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5.0

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So much fun. Just sit back and watch the magic!

Written on Jul 16 2012

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5.0

This is such a fun evening out! Highly recommended and I will be returning!

Written on Jun 27 2012

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5.0

Red Velvet Member

Really laughed a lot. Very professionally done.

Written on Jun 26 2012

4.0

I'm very sad to have learned about Magnum Opus Theatre only in time for it to move to San Francisco (temporarily, I hope). Not only was this performance entertaining, but attendance should be required for every aspiring screenwriter. Really, I think the producers should make a special effort to market this to film schools. Every misspelling and punctuation error faithfully reproduced, continuity problems ignored, non sequiturs and incomprehensible plot twists lovingly presented -- not to mention the literal portrayal of excessively colorful descriptive language. It was fun!

Written on Aug 08 2010

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Website

http://www.sacredfools.org/misc/magnumopus/

Description

Hundreds of untrained writers from around the world send their unsolicited, unregistered scripts to Hollywood production companies in the hopes that their story will rise above the rest to be made into a feature film. Most never even get read... until now. Magnum Opus Theatre presents an unbelievably awful screenplay, compressed but otherwise unaltered... word for word.

June 22-July 6, 2012: Abi's Choice
In this tale of sex, and of the city, hip young novelist Abigail Lauren's fiance splits with her for a year. So she begins a journey of romantic discovery with multiple partners that will ultimately lead her to make a choice... Abi's Choice!

Directed by Joe Jordan
Produced by Brandon Clark
Starring Jaime Andrews, Eric Curtis Johnson, Franci Montgomery, Michael Lanahan, Kimberly Atkins Sims
Hosted by Thurston Eberhard Hillsboro-Smyrthe