R. Mackenzie Lewis's Lounge Lizard Bingo
with special guest Curt Waugh
Friday, June 25th @ 8 PM
Lounge Lizard Bingo, created by R. MacKenzie Lewis, premiered online in April of 2020, just after the country and world went into lockdown. Born out of the need for a distraction from the global chaos, it included music, singing, games, nostalgia, shenanigans, trivia, and allowed for audiences to connect with the host and each other through an interactive game they could access on their computer or smartphone.
Fast forward more than a year later and Lounge Lizard Bingo comes to audiences live and in person at the Kerrytown Concert House! Hosted by its creator, the in-person show will continue to have the specially designed digital game card that audiences can access on their phones throughout the show which will allow them to participate in trivia, earn points, and have a chance to choose songs to be performed. The winner of bingo will get a chance to play a game with those for a chance at prizes!
Special guest Curt Waugh will join R. MacKenzie Lewis in singing a wide variety of favorite songs from Billy Joel, Prince, Huey Lewis, The Beatles, Elton John, the Chairman of the Board, and more accompanied by general mischievousness, bingo, trivia, all while trying not to get into too much trouble. www.LoungeLizardBingo.com
*The Lot Lounge is an in-person event venue outside in our back parking lot. If this event needs to be cancelled due to inclement weather, the show will go on for you at home! We’ll move the artists inside and pivot to a livestreamed concert on the same date and time at a private link that will be shared only with ticket holders. All decisions regarding inclement weather cancellations will be made no later than 2 hours prior to the performance, at which point all ticket holders will be notified by email about the cancellation with instructions for accessing the private livestream.
PLEASE NOTE: Since we have this livestreaming option for our audiences (and the artists we engage), there will be no refunds or exchanges for The Lot Lounge ticket purchases this summer. Thank you for your support and understanding as we work to find innovative ways to continue connecting artists and audiences!
R. MacKenzie Lewis has been an arranger, composer, pianist, and music director in South East Michigan for nearly two decades. In addition to being the band leader with Ann Arbor’s own band Accidentally Hip, Lewis is the composer and music director for Eastern Michigan University’s School of Communication, Media, and Theatre Arts and a lecturer and accompanist with the School of Music and Dance. Some favorite theatre projects outside of university life include music directing and orchestrating the national tour and Off-Broadway premiere of The Berenstain Bears LIVE! in Family Matters, the Musical; Gypsy at the Hangar Theatre in New York (Broadway World Award for Best Music Direction); A Little Night Music at the Performance Network (Wilde Award for Best Music Direction); Legally Blonde at MSU (Pulsar Award for Best Music Direction); Irrational (Composer, Wilde Award for Best New Script); and Romance in Hard Times with William Finn at the Barrington Stage Co. He also composed music for Wings of Ikarus, Jason Invisible, and Mockingbird (two Helen Hayes nominations), all of which were commissioned and premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. Lewis has also composed the musicals: Video Games: The Rock Opera, Treasure Island, Pinocchio, A Very British Christmas, Sugar Plum Panto, The Elves and the Schumackers, DJ Whittington – A Hip-Hop Panto, and Soaring on Black Wings, a world premiere with Ben Vereen.
Curt Waugh is a five-decade veteran of live performance and thrilled beyond words to be working again with the phenomenal R MacKenzie Lewis and KCH. You might remember Curt from his recent stint of emceeing the Wine, Women & Song fundraiser at the Ark in 2019. He’s been in shows and bands too numerous to mention. Mostly recently, he has been the lead singer of the world’s greatest garage band, Smitty Smitty Bang Bang. Over the years, Curt has been a huge supporter of local arts, helping to raise money for KCH, Ann Arbor Civic Theater and The Children’s Creative Center among others.
