Additional Day Now Added for JOE BOB’S DRIVE-IN JAMBOREE
Josh Millican
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Due to overwhelming demand, Joe Bob Briggs and the Mahoning Drive-In will now be adding a fourth night to Joe Bob’s Drive-In Jamboree in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, this July!
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The Jamboree will now open on Thursday night, July 15th, with a “Welcome to Appalachia” barbecue, a performance of Joe Bob’s critically acclaimed live show, How Rednecks Saved Hollywood, and a very special 35mm screening of Smokey and the Bandit.
As previously announced, Joe Bob’s Drive-In Jamboree will also include the Mutant Fest indie film festival on Friday, July 16th, The Last Drive-In LIVE on Saturday, July 17th, and a haunted drive-in event with a classic double feature and live zombies on Sunday, July 18th.
The Mahoning Drive-In sits in the middle of the Ridge-and-Valley Region of the Appalachian Mountains, so the eight-hour “Welcome to Appalachia” event on Thursday night will begin with a locally catered barbecue. Then Briggs will perform his one-man show of the most sacred redneck cinematic moments, never before presented at a drive-in. The evening will end with a 35-millimeter screening of Smokey and the Bandit.
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“I had to be talked into this,” said Briggs, “because my live show has 300 cues, uses 200 movie clips and stills, makes extensive use of maps, and relies on my being close to the audience—because so much of it is comedy. Let me put it this way: we tried it out on the humongous Mahoning screen, and I said to Virgil Cardamone, the programming director, ‘We’re gonna need a bigger projector.’ He bought the projector, and I bought a $150 laser pointer, and we’re going for it.”
After Joe Bob’s fast-and-furious two-hour presentation, he will introduce what he calls “the greatest movie in the history of the world”—Smokey and the Bandit. The Mahoning is famous for its championing of classic 35- millimeter projection, so this will be a rare opportunity to see the movie as it was originally shown in 1977.
Tickets will go on sale for the Thursday show on Friday, June 11th at 12 pm EST. Tickets are also still available for the Sunday world premiere of Joe Bob’s Drive-In of Dread, a multi-media experience featuring live zombies roaming the lot, with screenings of the 1950s classics House of Wax and Them, hosted by Joe Bob and Darcy from the Mahoning projection booth.
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Current ticket holders for Friday, Saturday, or Sunday who would like to add passengers to their car will have the opportunity to purchase additional tickets beginning Friday, June 11th at 12pm EST. Please note that you must provide your original ticket purchase number at checkout and must ensure that any additional attendees will be in the original ticketholder’s vehicle. Parking will be first-come, first-served. Joe Bob and Darcy the Mail Girl will both be available for meet-and-greets on all days of the Jamboree.
Tickets will go on sale noon EST on Friday, June 11th HERE.
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