Letters To Cleo's Kay Hanley Shares Behind-the-Scenes Video of Her Josie & the Pussycats Rehearsal
Next week, Letters to Cleo's Kay Hanley will perform music from the 2001 Josie and the Pussycats [...]
Next week, Letters to Cleo's Kay Hanley will perform music from the 2001 Josie and the Pussycats movie as part of a launch party for a new, vinyl edition of the film's soundtrack -- and last night, she gave fans on social media a peek behind the curtain at her rehearsal.
On Instagram, Hanley posted a trio of videos to her Instagram story (and one, embedded below, as a stand-alone post), giving fans a taste of the concert that will accompany a screening of the film and Q&A with the cast and directors on September 26.
Hanley, who provided the vocals for the band's music on Josie and the Pussycats's soundtrack album, will be performing the songs, apparently for the first time, live in Los Angeles as part of the screening event.
The film will unspool at LA's famed Ace Hotel, with a freewheeling post-screening conversation with stars Rachael Leigh Cook, Gabriel Mann and Missi Pyle, and co-writer/directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan.
Josie and the Pussycats has been named as one of ComicBook.com's most underrated comic book movies ever made, and that plays into how Mondo, who are underwriting the event with Alamo Drafthouse and Birth.Movies.Death, sells the event.
"Tragically under-appreciated on its original release, Josie and the Pussycats was dismissed as just another lame comic-to-screen cash-in aimed squarely at teens (who couldn't have cared less)," said the launch party's release. "But the film was actually a cinematic Trojan horse, a scathing satire on consumerism, pop music and the very genre of comic-to-screen teen movies. And, thanks to a cracking script, an all-star cast giving it their all, and a soundtrack that's way more rocking than it had any right to be, Josie is an enduring big screen pleasure."
This is not the first time Alamo Drafthouse has brought Josie and the Pussycatsto the big screen; like many cult favorites, it finds its way to the indie-leaning theater chain from time to time. The Hanley concert, though, makes this outing the jerkin'-est Josie experience since 2001.
Hanley's performance will take place before the screening, and copies of the reissued screenplay, available from Mondo, will be for sale on site.
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