2009-06-05 22:45:33 - "Historic night in comedy" will also feature Chicago's comedy elite

WILMETTE, ILLINOIS (SPPR) Live music and comedy performance share the bill with an acclaimed, award-winning feature film as Neil Innes appears onstage at the Wilmette Theatre following a screening of The Seventh Python, the musical documentary about his life and work.

The grand show at the moviehouse-performance space in a suburb of Chicago is being described as “a major event for

Chicago and a historic night in comedy.”

The schedule includes a screening of the 90-minute nonfiction film; a conversation and Q&A with Innes and filmmakers Burt Kearns and Brett Hudson of Frozen Pictures moderated by local comedy legend Tim Kazurinsky; appearances by Monty Pythion scholar Kim Howard Johnson, among others; and the concert by Innes.

Innes, a legend in rock music and modern comedy, is a founding member of The Bonzo Dog Dah Band, and has performed with The Beatles, was an associate of the Monty Python troupe, created the music of The Rutles, ad is also an accomplished TV performer, author and songwriter.

The Wilmette appearance will cap off Innes’ multimedia solo concert tour of the eastern and Midwestern United States.

The Seventh Python has been a favorite on the film festival circuit, recently winning the Las Vegas Film Festival’s prestigious Gold Ace Award from the Las Vegas. It is an official entry in the Revelation Perth Film Festival in Perth Australia in July.

The Chicago Tribune today called the film “magical” and “mysterious,” adding: “The only thing more whimsical and hysterical than his songs is Innes' real-life story.”

The film also stars Pythons John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, along with Phill Jupitus, Aimee Mann and Simpons creator Matt Groening.

Neil Innes & The Seventh Python: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Wilmette Theatre, 1122 Central Ave., Wilmette. $25; The price includes a Seventh Python movie poster. More information at 847-251-7424 or wilmettetheatre.com.

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