Clerks director Kevin Smith will be at the Rio Theatre for two shows on March 30
A second Kevin Smith gig has been added at the Rio Theatre after his first fundraiser sold out in less than a day.
Tickets are on sale now for the March 30 performance, which is billed as “An Evening with Kevin Smith,” and go for $40 a pop via the Rio Theatre’s website.
All proceeds from both shows will be donated to theatre operator Corrine Lea’s ongoing efforts to buy the Rio from current owner and former theatre magnate Leonard Schein.
An Indiegogo crowdfunding push will be launched Feb. 26, and the deadline to raise the necessary capital to keep the Rio as is will fall somewhere around early April.
Lea’s campaign will be bookended April 1 and 2 with a marathon telethon straight out of the 1980s, complete with rotary phones, performers and all the other bells and whistles. The show will be emceed by Rio mainstays and standup comedians Patrick Maliha and Eric Fell.
Tickets are available online via www.riotheatretickets.ca.
