Letters to Cleo’s Kay Hanley To Play A Josie & the Pussycats Concert at Alamo Drafthouse Screening

Directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan will host a screening and Q&A of their 2001 comic book movie Josie and the Pussycats late next month, complete with a live concert featuring Letters to Cleo’s Kay Hanley.

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.

On September 26th in Los Angeles, Alamo Drafthouse is celebrating MONDO’s new vinyl reissue of the Josie and the Pussycats original motion picture soundtrack by staging an epic reunion screening. 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 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). 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 Pussycats to 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.