John Waters // False Negative: A Halloweener Celebration // Night Two w. The Bad Companions
Saturday, October 30, 2021
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Show
18+
VIP Seating (includes premium seating, priority post-show meet & greet, and a swag bag of tricks, treats & trinkets selected by the Sultan of Sleaze himself): $149
Preferred Seating (includes reserved seating & priority post-show meet & greet): $89
General Admission: $49 Advance, $59 At The Door
Ticket Purchases are Final and Non-Refundable
*The Parkway Theater requires Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test Result for entry to all events.*
The Prince of Puke returns to The Parkway!
This filthy world has certainly changed since John Waters' last visit in February 2020 — and so has his signature spoken word performance, now entitled, False Negative.
Just added! Things are gonna get nasty as The Bad Companions kick-off the night at 7 pm with their signature flash and panache. Shame on your bad self!
The all-new, fast-moving, seventy-minute monologue gets a Halloweener holiday spin that will give fans of the artistically infected a really scary booster shot.
The man the French press recently called the “Queer Confucius” is back on the road and ready to give new goblins, witches, and everyone in between a reverse trigger-warning for this horror-house ride of post-covid comic thrills.
John Waters doesn’t need a costume, he’s in disguise as himself every day of the year.
Trick or treat. You must excrete.
John Waters is a man of many monikers: The Prince of Puke, The Duke of Dirt, The Sultan of Sleaze. Any way you put it, John Waters is famed the world over for his trash epics including Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester, Serial Mom, Cecil B. Demented and Hairspray.
False Negative is the next chapter in Waters' rapid-fire one-man spoken word Vaudevillean act, This Filthy World, celebrating the film career and joyously appalling taste of the man William Burroughs once called "The Pope of Trash.” In this live performance, the legend himself talks about his early negative artistic influences, including his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, the extremes of the art world, Catholicism, sexual deviancy and a love of reading.
The Bad Companions are a long standing (and popular!) Minneapolis based roots-rock quartet. Two guitars, stand-up bass and drums, with great vocals, horns on special occasions, a strong original catalog and a set list as long as your arm drawn from the swingin’ heyday of American rock-a-billy, r & b, country and blues.
Star of stage & screen, Al Subola (lead vocals, guitar) has previously sung and picked with rockabilly legends, the Vibro Champs, where he was the lead guitarist & primary songwriter. Bassist Bill Keefe is also a Vibro Champs vet and even had a brief stint with James Brown's drummer - Clyde Stubblefield. Hayden Grooms (drums) of the Hillions plays it straight and is always in the pocket. Dan Gaarder (vocals, guitar) of Roe Family Singers & Trailer Trash fame is a talented picker & singer and knows all the classic country songs that you don't! This stellar combo plays with flash and panache. Check ‘em out!
