The Full Moon Show with John Pizza: Pants and Shirts
The Full Moon Show with John Pizza: Pants and Shirts
Pants and Shirts. It’s such an obligation to walk around clothed. To make sure our wayward nakedness is covered and seemly. To see that our inner desires and our wacky motives, our ugly tendencies and our stupid mistakes, are rightfully adorned. That we are completely and thoroughly dressed.
Join John Pizza for a new Full Moon Show called Pants and Shirts, an anti strip show, because if everybody’s wearing them, I guess I gotta wear them too.
John Pizza is a performer, builder, and drawer. He uses trash and thrift-store detritus scrounged in his Brooklyn neighborhood to tell stories and make his shows. He loves the macabre and the mushy sweet. His sculptures are performative, and his performances involve sculptures—an object theatre of weird surprises.
About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show
Performance is anything done with purpose and style. —Tom Murrin
Howl! Happening is home to the archive of Tom Murrin, aka the Alien Comic and the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon—without fail, paid booking or not, in all seasons and whatever the weather—he performed his Luna Macaroona Full Moon Show. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon, he’d wrangle his friends to perform as guests—pushing the careers of such groundbreaking performers as David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron, and many others. When he didn’t have a club date, he performed on the street for passersby, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic.
