On Thursday night the 4-Star will host a special performance for one night only as part of the 2010 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Road Trip to Pluto: The Bitter Planet sounds like a funny, wild and campy ride:
The whole universe knew that Pluto was bitter when he lost his planet status, but he went too far when he kidnapped the beloved, bespectacled host of the popular-amongst-pinkos show, Fresh Air. NPR soon unleashes the awesome power of the Public Radio Space Program and hires a band of losers with orders to bring Terry Gross back: alive, dead or not at all! Cap’n, Psycho and Princess embark upon a journey that will stretch the limits of their own sanity, as well as your expectation of sci-fi parodies, sketch comedy and bad film-making. Look out, Ed Wood! This…is…Bitter Show.
Additional clarification from Mike Spiegelman of the Bitter Show: “…This will be a live show that incorporates filmed bits, audience participation, live interaction with film bits, rapping planets, etc. We’re very thrilled to present it on the 4 Star’s stage.”
The show begins at 8pm. Tickets are available online in advance or at the 4-Star Theater (2200 Clement Street) on show night.
Sarah B.
Sarah B.,
Thanks for the plug. I’m a big fan of your site. Just to clarify, this will be a live show that incorporates filmed bits, audience participation, live interaction with film bits, rapping planets, etc. We’re very thrilled to present it on the 4 Star’s stage.
Mike Spiegelman
“Psycho,” The Bitter Show
Great, thanks for clarifying Mike. I updated the post. I wasn’t sure from your site description if this was film, theater etc. so appreciate the extra info!
Sarah B.
I get that this site and this event are meant to be funny, but you should know that Pluto still is a planet. Only four percent of the IAU voted on this, and most are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately opposed in a formal petition by hundreds of professional astronomers led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. Stern and like-minded scientists favor a broader planet definition that includes any non-self-luminous spheroidal body in orbit around a star. The spherical part is important because objects become spherical when they attain a state known as hydrostatic equilibrium, meaning they are large enough for their own gravity to pull them into a round shape. This is a characteristic of planets and not of shapeless asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects. Pluto meets this criterion and is therefore a planet. Under this definition, our solar system has 13 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris.