Show Ho: Solo Show by Comedienne/Circus Performer Sara Moore
New Conservatory Theatre Center, at Market (25 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $32.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $16.00*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for Show Ho have expired.
The last date listed for Show Ho was Sunday October 9, 2011 / 2:00pm.
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9 Goldstar Member Reviews
Scott Carter
Sara is fantastic. Great energy. Amazing courage and sincerity beneath all the (quite amusing) bravado. Kudos on a great performance.Written on Oct 10 2011
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Nathan
Sara Moore gives a tour de cirque in her solo show about Carny Americana, with inventive insight and spot-on timing. You sometimes forget that you are watching one individual perform when she breathes such life into so many characters. Thank you to the NCTC for giving a venue to such talent.Written on Oct 10 2011
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Geo Gob
A one woman show that is worthy of Broadway. Sara is simply great. One of the best performances I have ever witnessed. She introduced me to amazing characters, made me laugh, made me cry and made me think. Go see it now. Don't miss it!Written on Oct 01 2011
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More Information About Show Ho
Website
http://www.nctcsf.org/press_room/show_ho.htm
Quotes & Highlights
- “Moore is without doubt the young heiress to the top-notch comedy/entertainment spotlight held by Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. It’s a 21st Century Pagliacci…” --OutNow Magazine
- “Terrifyingly bright and verbal...Moore is a thoroughly post-modern mix of weird characters, funny voices, bizarre situations.” --The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine
- “Comic Kung-Fu!” --Theatre Bay Area Magazine
Description
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.
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. In the 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 Actress by the Bay Area Critics Circle in the same year but lost to Holly Hunter!
Sara continues to perform her 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.