Just a stone’s throw over in Fremont, there’s this bit of inanity going on:
The Lonely Kazoo: A Synthetic Journey to Heaven” is an operatic coming-of-age story about a young kazoo searching for a new home as a post-consumer product. The show, written and performed by Seattle artists, features a rock band, dancing, costumes made of trash and, of course, kazoos. The show starts at 7 p.m. August 19 at the Fremont Abbey (4272 Fremont Ave N).
After a raucous party in which his valu-pak family is torn open by a group of joyful humans, our kazoo hero is discarded in the city streets. Now dirty and used, no human will ever play him again, yet still he exists. He is plastic and will be on earth for at least 10,000 years, but never again as an instrument.
The Lonely Kazoo takes us on a wonderful, but perhaps not unusual, journey through city gutters and down great American rivers. We visit abandoned rust belt factories and terrifying forests. We make it to the sea and just float where the current takes us … the plastic garbage patch in the Pacific.
An art show featuring local artists addressing plastics, disposable culture or environmental destruction will accompany the opera. The show, while sometimes dark, is family-friendly. All ages are encouraged to attend. Bring your own kazoo if you have one.
Adding some witty closing line seems redundant.