LAUREL & HARDY: Their Silent Best
Music by Wayne Barker and Frank Bockius
Whether it’s a truckful of pies, a suburban home, a motorcar, or their pants, there’s only one possible outcome when these two virtuosos focus their powers of destruction on a prop: audiences destroyed by laughter.
With:
The Battle of the Century (1927, d. Clyde Bruckman, Leo McCarey)
The Finishing Touch (1928, d. Clyde Bruckman, Leo McCarey)
Liberty (1929, d. Leo McCarey)
Big Business (1929, d. J. Wesley Horne)
Live musical accompaniment by Wayne Barker and Frank Bockius
WAYNE BARKER has garnered acclaim both for his original compositions and live performances in the theater, including a Tony nomination for best original score on Peter and the Starcatcher. His numerous credits include piano scores for Beth Henley’s Laugh, an homage to silent-era slapstick; and Joe DiPietro’s Hollywood, centered around the 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor. He composed for Dame Edna Everage as well as appeared onstage as Master of the Dame’s Music for six years.
Versatile percussionist FRANK BOCKIUS specializes in jazz and is versed in medieval, flamenco, and Latin music styles. He has performed for dance and theater companies as well as in his own bands, including the jazz quintet Whisper Hot and the percussion ensemble Timpanicks. He joined Guenter Buchwald’s Silent Movie Music Company twenty years ago and has since performed for silent films at festivals in Kyoto, Pordenone, and Sodankylä, Finland.
Details
Source
FPA Classics / Blackhawk Films
Runtime
75 minutes total
Format
DCP
Sat, May 9, 2026
10:00 AM
Castro Theatre
$20 general
$18 member
Children age 12 and under Free