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The Red Room Orchestra returns to play the classic soundtrack from Hal Ashby's beloved 1971 comedy "Harold and Maude." An evening of Cat Stevens tunes plus instrumental music from the film, with guests including Margaret Cho, Petra Haden, and Janet Varney.
Formed by San Francisco producer and multi-instrumentalist Marc Capelle in 2017, the Red Room Orchestra is a collective of popular, jazz, classical, and electronic composers and performers who’ve played and recorded alongside the Bad Seeds, the Plastic Ono Band, Cibo Matto, Oingo Boingo, Sonic Youth, CAKE, American Music Club, Lou Harrison, the Steve Reich Ensemble, the Nels Cline Singers, Rodriguez, Iggy Pop, Tune-Yards, Bill Frisell, and more. They’ve offered live renderings of the music of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, reinterpretations of the soundtracks of Wes Anderson’s Rushmore and The RoyalTenenbaums, the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, and Alex Cox’s Repo Man. At Netflix is a Joke: The Festival, they were the house band for Seth Rogen’s Live Reads of Seinfeld, When Harry Met Sally, and Clueless at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. For SFFILM they composed and performed original scores for the short films from Stephen Parr’s Oddball Films archive. They have performed at The Chapel and the Great American Music Hall for SF Sketchfest, at Outside Lands, Clusterfest, and at Symphony Space in NYC. The Red Room Orchestra projects are co-curated and produced by SF Sketchfest’s David Owen. With Tom Ayres, Andy Cabic, Toby Dammnit aka Larry Mullins, Dina Maccabee, Adam Pfahler, Maisy Straus and Pete Straus. ($48 Reserved Seating, $28 General Admission, All Ages) Poster image by Campbell Zane Alexander
Janet Varney is a writer, producer, improviser, and Emmy-nominated actress based in Los Angeles, which is in California, which is in the United States (see globe). You can see her on Hulu in the horror comedy series “Stan Against Evil,” and as Becca on “You’re the Worst... Read More →
Marc Capelle is a San Francisco native musician, composer, arranger, and producer.He’s played with 100’s of acts including Virgil Shaw, the Fresh & Onlys, Jason Lytle, American Music Club, Tommy Guerrero, Kelley Stoltz, Third Eye Blind, Margaret Cho, and quartet-style gospel pioneers... Read More →
Comedian. Actor. Musician. Advocate. Entrepreneur. Five-time Grammy and Emmy nominee. Margaret Cho’s strong voice has been lighting the path for other women, other members of underrepresented groups, other performers, to follow. Her recent television appearances – guest star on... Read More →
Petra Haden is a musical innovator, who in the last four decades has earned industry recognition for her experimental harmonies, inventive melodies and eclectic collaborations. Her voice and violin can be heard in many musical realms––jazz, rock, pop, alternative, classical, punk... Read More →
Formed by San Francisco producer and multi-instrumentalist Marc Capelle in 2017, The Red Room Orchestra is a collective of popular, jazz, classical, and electronic composers and performers who’ve played and recorded alongside the Bad Seeds, the Plastic Ono Band, Cibo Matto, Oingo... Read More →
Tuesday January 30, 2024 8:00pm - 10:00pm PST
Great American Music Hall859 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94109
