Woodward Cinema presents Daytime Revolution
12/10/24 at The Woodward Theater
Doors at 7:00PM, Show at 7:30PM
$12 advance, $15 day of show
More info: www.woodwardtheater.com
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkjiRlTVVnQ
For one extraordinary week beginning on February 14th, 1972, the
Revolution WAS televised. Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to
the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia
broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the
time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of
40 million viewers a week. What followed was five unforgettable
episodes of television, with Lennon and Ono at the helm and Douglas
bravely keeping the show on track. Acting as both producers and hosts,
Lennon and Ono handpicked their guests, including controversial
choices like Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Chairman
Bobby Seale, as well as political activist Ralph Nader and comic truth
teller George Carlin. Their version of daytime TV was a radical take
on the traditional format, incorporating candid Q&A sessions with
their transfixed audience, conversations about current issues like
police violence and women’s liberation, conceptual art events, and
one-of-a-kind musical performances, including a unique duet with
Lennon and Chuck Berry and a poignant rendition of Lennon’s “Imagine”.
A document of the past that speaks to our turbulent present, Daytime
Revolution captures the power that art can have when it reaches out to
communicate, the prescience of that dialogue, and the bravery of two
artists who never took the easy way out as they fought for their
vision of a better world.
For one extraordinary week beginning on February 14th, 1972, the
Revolution WAS televised. Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to
the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia
broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the
time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of
40 million viewers a week. What followed was five unforgettable
episodes of television, with Lennon and Ono at the helm and Douglas
bravely keeping the show on track. Acting as both producers and hosts,
Lennon and Ono handpicked their guests, including controversial
choices like Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Chairman
Bobby Seale, as well as political activist Ralph Nader and comic truth
teller George Carlin. Their version of daytime TV was a radical take
on the traditional format, incorporating candid Q&A sessions with
their transfixed audience, conversations about current issues like
police violence and women’s liberation, conceptual art events, and
one-of-a-kind musical performances, including a unique duet with
Lennon and Chuck Berry and a poignant rendition of Lennon’s “Imagine”.
A document of the past that speaks to our turbulent present, Daytime
Revolution captures the power that art can have when it reaches out to
communicate, the prescience of that dialogue, and the bravery of two
artists who never took the easy way out as they fought for their
vision of a better world.