Gustafer Yellowgold’s Show

McCabe’s Guitar Shop
3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica; (310) 828-4497
Sunday, February 7, 2010
11 a.m.
Ages: All
Cost: $10
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The New York Times calls this show a cross between Yellow Submarine and Dr. Seuss!  Named “Best Kids’ Performer” by New York Magazine, Morgan Taylor developed the Gustafer Yellowgold experience as equal parts pop rock concert and minimally animated movie. A natural storyteller with a comedic bent, Taylor has dreamed up a whole world of catchy and original story-songs about Gustafer (a friendly creature who came to Earth from the sun), performing alongside a large screen displaying vividly colored animations with karaoke-style subtitles. Gustafer lives out an explorer’s life in a slightly psychedelic version of the Minnesota woods, where he resides in a cottage with his menagerie of friends, including a pet eel, a tuxedo-wearing pterodactyl, and a dragon named Asparagus who inhabits the fireplace and loves corn on the cob. For recreation, Gustafer enjoys jumping on cake.