"Weird Al" Yankovic's UHF Movie Screening

Los Angeles, CA It’s been 37 years in the making! “Weird Al” Yankovic is bringing his classic comedy UHF back to the big screen for one night only at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 31. And for the first time ever,  the film’s original score will be performed live on stage by a full orchestra, conducted by none other than the score’s composer John Du Prez, accompanying the film. 

And to polish off the night, following the movie there will be a Q&A with Weird Al and special surprise guests!

“I am thrilled that the UHF score will fly once more this October. Everything we imagined in the studio all those years ago will finally take on a new life performed in real time by a full symphony orchestra and Al's wonderful band.”

“I’m so excited to join the great John Du Prez on stage at the Greek to celebrate the 27th anniversary of the 10th anniversary of the release of UHF,” says Yankovic. “This will truly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

According to the original Orion Pictures press release: “George Newman (Yankovic) has an imagination that works overtime. But George himself can’t hold a job for more than 24 hours.  Then one day his Uncle Harvey wins a tiny ‘UHF’ television station in a poker game, and names George its new manager on the grounds that nobody could screw up things at the station any worse than they already are.”

And the rest is comedy history.

Show info at weirdal.com. Tickets go on sale at Ticketmaster.com on Thursday, June 18 at 10:00 am PDT.

Orion Pictures released UHF on July 21, 1989 and it would go on to become a revered cult classic. In addition to Yankovic in the leading role, the film co-starred film veteran Kevin McCarthy, Seinfeld’s Michael Richards (in a tour de force performance as janitor Stanley Spadowski), Fran Drescher, David Bowe, Gedde Wattanabe, Billy Barty, Anthony Geary, Trinidad Silva, Stanley Brock, John Paragon, Vance Colvig, Sue Ane Langdon, David Proval, Emo Philips, and SNL cast member Victoria Jackson. The movie was co-written by Al Yankovic and Jay Levey, directed by Jay Levey, and produced by Gene Kirkwood (Rocky, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Ironweed) and John Hyde (Das Boot, Flight of the Navigator, The Final Countdown) for Cinecorp, and Gray Frederickson (The Godfather I, II & III, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders).