Batman Returns Returns: Now With Christmas
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Matt King, like a lot of people in the underground art scene, had only heard of the ruckus The Museum of Human Achievement (MOHA) was generating. MOHA is the warehouse turned artist run art space where "Batman Return Returns" had its first run. Zack Traeger, executive director of MOHA, is also one of its lead producers.
Traeger filled me in on how he and his producing partner, Neil Fridd, became the Max and Leo of Christmas themed weird rock musical adaptations.
“We've been doing shows of a wide variety for the last seven years. The way it started was Neil and I would ask about 30 bands to pick a conceptual or under-represented Christmas character. Each band would write a song from the perspective of that character and we would build a set for whatever character they picked," said Traeger.
"So we built 30 sets throughout the space which is a giant warehouse, artist-run space. And then when the audience arrived we would tour them through all 30 sets as like a holiday experience," he said.
Traeger and Fridd now develop a yearly Christmas musical and so far they’ve covered "A Christmas Carol" and "Die Hard," which they renamed "Live Hard." Most recently they premiered "Home Alone." How recently? The last of the four shows was just this past Sunday.
