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Shadowbox Live is kicking off a brand-new season with a sketch comedy and music show filled with the best of 2024! Stacie Boord and Jimmy Mak from Shadowbox stopped by Good day Columbus to to talk about "Hot Stuff"

“Because SBX is a collective of artists, there’s a sense of collaboration. Whether it’s a sketch comedy or a musical, there is a rock aesthetic and a sensibility that crosses over into all genres.” The result is a category-defying oeuvre that combines comedy, dance, theatrical performances and live music by an in-house band. Audiences will experience this amalgamation of styles at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, opening night of “Hot Stuff,” the first offering in SBX’s 37th season. The production continues SBX’s annual tradition of spotlighting the best of the previous year’s shows.

Hot Stuff will feature fan-favorite comedy sketches from the 2024 season alongside a selection of the season's best live music performances. Music included in the show ranges from rock classics like Ozzy Osbourne's “Crazy Train” and Prince's “Kiss” to pop hits like “Bang Bang” by Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj, and more. “The annual ‘best-of' show is always a highlight for us,” said Julie Klein, Shadowbox Live's producing director. “It's an opportunity for our metaperformers to revisit standout moments from the past year and for our audience to relive their favorite performances. Our writers truly outdid themselves in 2024, which made selecting the top 10 sketches a challenge but a great problem to have.”

During their holiday shows this season, Shadowbox Live's gallery will showcase the work of artists from two central Ohio organizations dedicated to providing creative spaces for artists with developmental disabilities and differences. "This particular exhibit that we're running right now is one of our most cherished," said Shadowbox Live CEO Stacie Boord. "They do an amazing job of selecting artists that are hanging on our walls a variety of different colors and mediums that really tell their own personal story. [It] really aligns well with the whole feeling of the holidays which is sharing and giving."

In many ways, this Sleepy Hollow feels like a more fully realized version of Shadowbox’s earlier adaptation of an American classic, The Great Gatsby.

This SBX adaptation of Washington Irving’s story of bewitched hearts, twilight superstitions, and sinister spirits is retold with modern music, dance, and live theater. Our newest original work is an adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic 1820 short story of bewitched hearts, twilight superstitions, and sinister spirits, retold with the power of live music, dance, and live theater.