Screening:
World Premiere Online
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Welcome to the World Premiere of Dan Mirvish's long-awaited follow-up to Omaha (the movie). Well, actually the long-awaited follow-up would be Stamp & Deliver - the modern-day postal western whose financing fell through five days before shooting about 2 1/2 years ago, but that's another story. So, in its place is the very shortly-awaited follow-up to Omaha (the movie), The First Couple of Omaha Theater. So shortly-awaited, in fact, that it was only written and shot last Friday, and edited on Saturday. By Monday, it had been accepted into the Maryland Film Festival for the big World Premiere. Mirvish is hoping for a distribution deal later this week.

The First Couple of Omaha Theater stars Jill Anderson and Tim Siragusa, both alumni of Omaha (the movie), as the Drear-Lynts - the first couple of Omaha theater. We meet them as they appear on the Omaha public access cable show, "Omaha Arts" hosted by Kyle Fitzsimmons, an arts columnist for the Omaha Weekly, a struggling but feisty alternative weekly trying to eek out a niche in the stiff Omaha journalism community. Kyle is a leader in that struggle, and seeks to build a ubiquitous multi-media audience for himself in the Omaha metro area. Hence, the cable show. (Ever since Omaha's last ubiquitous multi-media arts critic was run out of town in 1983 for a discreet but illegal liaison with a minor in the balcony of a local theater, the city has felt a void.)

But unfortunately for Kyle, public access Channel 63 is currently renovating their studios, and due to a freak strike last month by Local 138 of the electricians union in a dispute over their 401k plan, the renovations are going slowly. But Kyle is undaunted. His quest for ubiquity must not be hindered by the vagueries of collective bargaining. So Kyle has taken the show on the road to his mother's living room. (Kyle's mother is currently visiting her ailing sister in Alliance, Nebraska, and isn't expected to return for another week or two, depending on how her sister's goiter operation goes.)

And so we come to Episode One of Kyle's "Omaha Arts, Live from Mom's House": The First Couple of the Omaha Theater. For information, please contact Dan Mirvish at dmirvish@slamdance.com or visit him at http://www.slamdance.com/mirvish.