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Marketing and Publicity Manager
Center for the Arts, Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90263
(310) 506-4055
brad.white@pepperdine.edu
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR THE ARTS

presents

THE FLYING KARAMAZOV BROTHERS

FOUR "BROTHERS" BRING JUGGLING PROWESS TO PEPPERDINE FOR TWO SHOWS!

Sunday, January 16, 2011, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA

The Flying Karamazov Brothers, those self-proclaimed "masters of juggling and cheap theatrics," perform at Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday, January 16.

Tickets, priced at $40 for adults, $20 for youths 17 and under, and $10 for full-time Pepperdine students, are available now by calling (310) 506-4522. Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787. Information online: http://arts.pepperdine.edu/ or http://www.fkb.com/

The Brothers mix physicality and theatrical innovation to create a show where anything is possible. For fans of the bizarre and unexpected, there is that perennial favorite, "The Gamble," where the audience brings whatever objects of whimsy--or of danger--that it thinks will prove "unjugglable," except for "live animals or anything which might stop the Champ from being a live animal."

The Flying Karamazov Brothers were born--accidentally--in 1973 at a Renaissance Faire in California. It was there that founders Paul Magid and Howard Patterson performed a simple juggling trick and found, much to their surprise, that someone had put $1.65 into one of their hats that had been tossed onto the ground. Upon seeing the unsolicited money glinting in the morning sun, art and body and soul melded into one.

Since then the Brothers, now four in number, have gone on to bring their unique brand of theatre to prestigious venues around the world with their highly successful productions. These include Juggling and Cheap Theatrics; Juggle & Hyde; Club Sandwich; Sharps, Flats, and Accidentals; Life, A Guide for the Perplexed; Catch!; and 4PLAY.

Tours in past years have included international appearances in England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, Bermuda, Israel, Germany, and the Netherlands.

They have enjoyed several successful and critically acclaimed runs on Broadway. In 1987, for their third Broadway appearance, the Brothers starred in their adaptation of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, a highly lauded production at New York's Lincoln Center.

They also created their own version of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival. They wrote and starred in a musical-comedy modernization of The Brothers Karamazov, directed by Daniel Sullivan for Seattle Repertory Theatre and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Their Le Petomane, about a French cabaret performer at the turn of the century, was directed by Robert Woodruff for La Jolla Playhouse in California and A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) in Seattle.

In 2000 they collaborated with MIT's Media Lab and premiered Magid's L'Universe, directed by Gordon Edelstein, at ACT in Seattle, the Arizona Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and at the Carré in Amsterdam.

They premiered Magid's Life: A Guide for the Perplexed, directed by Michael Preston, in 2004 at ACT in Seattle, the Lensic in Santa Fe, and ART in Cambridge, MA, and in 2005 at San Diego Repertory Theatre.

In 2007 they premiered Magid's Don Quijote at the San Diego Repertory Theatre, directed by Sam Woodhouse. The following year they premiered 4PLAY, directed by Magid. In 2009 they premiered Magid's Flings & Eros at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, MA.

Over the last 15 years, the Flying Karamazov Brothers have performed with several orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, NSO, St. Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Canadian National Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and many more.

They have been seen on many national TV shows, including Seinfeld, Ellen, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, to name a few. They have shared many stages and screens, collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Placido Domingo, The Grateful Dead, The Who, Dolly Parton, Robin Williams, Patrick Dempsey, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Kenny Rogers, Los Lobos, the Smothers Brothers, the Tappet Brothers, and Joyce Brothers.

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