Secret Formula

Thurs, August 23rd · 7:30pm Doors · 8:30pm Show · $10 Advance/$12 At Door
at The Bell House (149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215)

The Spice Girls are back! Not only did they reunite once more to perform at the closing of the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games but we’re bringing them back to the big screen so you can watch their feature film debut SPICE WORLD, their answer to The Beatles’ A Hard Days Night, with all the song lyrics on the screen so you can sing along with the movie. If you wannabe my lover you gotta come to the SPICE WORLD SING-ALONG at the Bell House!

Thurs, April 19th · 7:30pm Doors · 8:30pm Show · $10 Advance/$12 At Door
at The Bell House (149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215)

It was a Hard Knock Life way before Jay-Z rapped about it. We old schoolers know the original orphan gangsta was Ann-E! So, Secret Formula is representing with The Annie Sing-Along! It’s the movie musical you know and love with all the words to the songs on the screen for you and all your friends to Sing-Along with! Slap on your curly red wig, throw on that red dress with the white collar, brush down that sandy yellow dog, and get yourself to Gowanus cause we’re turning the Bell House into the hottest orphanage in town…leapin’ lizards!

This movie has an amazing cast of stars, two of whom have April birthdays: Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) and Carol Burnett (The Carol Burnett Show), who gives an incredible performance as the cruel, drunk, and randy orphanage director/con-artist, Miss Hannigan. Let’s celebrate and sing about it!

Return to your slumber party days of youth as we gather once more to belt out hits like “Tomorrow,” “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,” and of course “Hard Knock Life”. And, since Tim Curry is in it, we’ll have Rocky Horror Picture Show style interactive props and games for you to play throughout the movie along with themed cocktails (like the Dumb Dog, Rooster Juice and Warbucks Punch), drinking games (drink every time Miss Hannigan tells the kids to “shut up!”), tea time like in the Warbucks Mansion with tea and snacks, as well as contests including…

- Costume Contest - Shave your head to look like Daddy Warbucks! Dye your hair and get a perm to look like Annie! Dress up as your favorite character for a chance to win!

- Trivia Competition - Test your Annie knowledge against other superfans!

- Miss Hannigan’s Challenge - Think you’ve got what it takes to clean like an orphan? Well, grab a broom and prove it during this child labor inspired relay race. As Miss Hannigan says, “If this floor don’t shine like the top of the Chrysler Building, your backsides will.”

-Win prizes including free drinks and tickets to upcoming shows courtesy of The Bell House!

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Friday, January 6 · 7:30pm Doors · 8:30pm Show · $10 Advance/$12 At Door
at The Bell House (149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215)

We’ve swum and sung Under the Sea with Princess Ariel. We’ve ridden a magic carpet and explored A Whole New World with Princess Jasmine. Now it’s time we continue our Movie Sing-Along Series Disney Princess style with a tale as old as time. A song as old as rhyme. It’s Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along time!

Come and Sing-Along to the Academy Award winning music of this 90’s animated classic and learn what it means to settle and make compromises when you’re stuck in town with Jersey Shore rejects like Gaston as the most eligible bachelor.

As always we’ve subtitled all the songs so you can sing-along with the rest of the audience and pretend that you’re a candlestick named Lumiere or even Belle herself. We’ll have lots of Rocky Horror Picture Show style interactive fun and props to use throughout the show as well as…

- Test your Beauty and the Beast and Disney Princess knowledge in the Trivia Competition!
- Come dressed as Belle, the Beast, Household Furniture or Appliances for the Costume Contest!
- Are you as manly a man (or woman) as Gaston? Find out in Gaston’s Egg Eating Contest!
- And more fun and surprises!

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Friday, August 19 · Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm @ The Bell House; $8

Harry Potter isn’t the only movie about a high school student with magical powers. First came Teen Witch…and it’s got rapping in it. So, top that Dumbledore!

Come dressed in your best late 80’s/early 90’s fashions and celebrate a film brilliantly trapped in time at the Teen Witch Sing-Along! Join adolescent sorceress Louise Miller as she mixes it up with white rappers and takes revenge on the mean girls…all while wearing bright cheesy outfits, set to a soundtrack of unforgettable original pop tunes like the girls’ locker room number sung by cheerleaders called “I Like Boys!”

All the songs will be subtitled on the big screen so you can sing/rhyme along to hits like “Popular Girl” and the best rap ever, “Top That”. And speaking of words, this movie will introduce you to some awesome 80’s catch phrases, like the sexy euphemisms for penis: “trouser snake,” “zipper lizard,” and “love wand.”

For one night only The Bell House is BYOB! Bring Your Own Broom and…

- Compete for free drinks in contests like the Freestyle Rap Off and 80’s Trivia Contest

- Retake High School Sex Ed in the Condom Rolling Contest

- Enjoy themed cocktails like the Madame Serena, the Sweet Sixteen, the Brad Powell, and the Sex Education

- Try a pastry from our High School bake sale courtesy of Geek Treats

- Party with your fellow Teen Witch superfans and interact with the movie, Rocky Horror Picture Show style

- Get there early to grab a seat and watch pre-show entertainment including a montage of the best TV & film magic

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Best of Season 2 (part II)
Tuesday, August 9 ·  Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm @ The Bell House; $5

The 2nd half of the 2nd season, including the incredible Miss Twin Peaks Pageant!

Who cast a spell on NYC, the Log Lady? The TV Party audience has insisted that we bring FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, Sherriff Harry S Truman, and beautiful dead homecoming queen Laura Palmer to the big screen in Brooklyn…and who are we to stand in the way of a supernatural curse? So, Secret Formula gladly submits and presents to you, TV PARTY: TWIN PEAKS.

Why stay at home and watch TV, when you can go to the Bell House for a TV Party? There will be themed cocktails (The White Lodge/Black Lodge, The Red Room, The Leland Palmer), party games, team trivia for prizes and Twin Peaks influenced ridiculousness galore.

We’re transplanting the Bell House to a creepy logging town in rural Washington, where a beautiful naked corpse awaits discovery. And just like the show, this event will be full of campy mystery. Along with our favorite Twin Peaks episodes, we’ll be doing some of this…

- Franny Fluffer’s The Pink Room performing Twin Peaks Burlesque (See burlesque acts featuring Laura Palmer and The Log Lady!)

- A lecture from Dr. Johnny von McNulty - “Expert” (Johnny is on the Harold Team ‘Very Good Kiss’ at the UCB Theater, a contributor to ‘The Onion’ and SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’, and co-author of Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace.)

- Backwards-talking contest

- Miss Twin Peaks pageant

- Doughnuts and coffee

- Search the club for hidden clues leading to the location of the tightly plastic-wrapped Laura Palmer Barbie Doll

- Owls, lots of owls

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The Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along is CANCELLED due to some last minute conflicts with the licensing house.

But it’s been replaces by an equally awesome show…

The Teen Witch Sing-Along

Friday, August 19 · Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm @ The Bell House; $8

Link: http://secretformulany.tumblr.com/post/9001096388/teenwitchsing-along

Harry Potter isn’t the only movie about a high school student with magical powers. First came Teen Witch…and it’s got rapping in it. So, top that Dumbledore!

Come dressed in your best late 80’s/early 90’s fashions and celebrate a film brilliantly trapped in time at the Teen Witch Sing-Along! Join adolescent sorceress Louise Miller as she mixes it up with white rappers and takes revenge on the mean girls…all while wearing bright cheesy outfits, set to a soundtrack of unforgettable original pop tunes like the girls’ locker room number sung by cheerleaders called “I Like Boys!”

All the songs will be subtitled on the big screen so you can sing/rhyme along to hits like “Popular Girl” and the best rap ever, “Top That”. And speaking of words, this movie will introduce you to some awesome 80’s catch phrases, like the sexy euphemisms for penis: “trouser snake,” “zipper lizard,” and “love wand.”

For one night only The Bell House is BYOB! Bring Your Own Broom and…

- Compete for free drinks in contests like the Freestyle Rap Off and 80’s Trivia Contest

- Retake High School Sex Ed in the Condom Rolling Contest

- Enjoy themed cocktails like the Madame Serena, the Sweet Sixteen, the Brad Powell, and the Sex Education

- Try a pastry from our High School bake sale courtesy of Geek Treats

- Party with your fellow Teen Witch superfans and interact with the movie, Rocky Horror Picture Show style

- Get there early to grab a seat and watch pre-show entertainment including a montage of the best TV & film magic

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Friday, July 29th, 7:00pm Doors/8:00pm Show @ The Bell House; $8

Continuing our fondness for Disney musicals, though switching over to live action, we’re bringing you this 90’s movie musical that answered the oft asked question: Should we cast Bill Pullman in a singing role in a musical? The answer was no and we’ve been better off ever since for knowing.

Directed by heavy hitter Kenny Ortega (Hocus Pocus, High School Musicals 1-3, This is It and Dirty Dancing…the TV series?!) this movie is bound to remade with Zac Efron. So before that happens come see a pre-Batman/growly voice Christian Bale as Jack Kelly singing and dancing all about how unfair a nominal increase in newspaper costs are. I suggest we start doing the same about MTA fares as those hikes are much steeper.

As always we’ve subtitled the songs so you can sing-along with the audience and pretend that you are, in fact, the King of New York. We’ll have lots of interactive Rocky Horror style fun throughout the show (it is a pretty cheesy musical after all) as well as themed drinks, trivia, costume contest and Newsies dance off to see who can actually pull off that high kick move without busting their ass.

So come on out to The Bell House and Sing-Along with us. Whats’a matta, you scared of Brooklyn?

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Tuesday, July 12 · 7:00pm (Doors at 6pm) · $5

at The Bell House (149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY)
www.thebellhouseny.com

We’re having a slumber party (minus the sleeping over part) at The Bell House and you’re invited! We may even order some pizzas if our parents let us. And what show would be better for a slumber party than Jem? Jem is excitement! Jem is adventure! Glamour and glitter, fashion and fame! Who could ask for anything more in a Saturday morning cartoon show?

After the success of G.I. Joe HASBRO hired the same ad agency who made that to create a girl version TV show to churn out tons of more toys. What came out of that noble endeavor? Jem and the Holograms! Which, despite its commercial aims, actually turned out to be an awesome TV show with an impressive catalog of original songs, some awesome late 80’s style animation and plenty of hilarious moments (including a drug awareness episode that can not be missed).

We’re watching our favorite episodes of Jem while enjoying the nights festivities including:

+Cereal bar featuring only the finest sugar cereals to recreate that Saturday morning cartoon experience
+Live band covering Jem and the Holograms and Misfits classics
+Jem trivia contest for the superfans!
+Starlight Music Karaoke Battle
+Sing-Along with selected songs subtitled on the screen for everyone to sing to
+Costume contest (come in you PJs or come ready to rock out as a member of the Holograms, Misfits or Stingers)
+Makeover station giving Jem or Misfits style make-up designs
+Science lecture on holograms…how do those earrings work?!
+Themed drinks including the Starbright, Jerrica Benton, The Stingers, The Starlight Girls and more!
+Prizes from The Bell House including free drinks and tickets to upcoming shows!

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Thursday, July 7 · 8:00pm (Doors at 7pm) · $5

at The Bell House (149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY)
www.thebellhouseny.com

What’s better than going on your own summer vacation? Staying in and watching all of your favorite 90’s TV characters go on theirs!

We’ll be watching summer vacation episodes of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Saved by the Bell, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Baywatch, Hey Dude, The Simpsons, Step by Step, Full House, Salute Your Shorts, Boy Meets World, Tiny Toons and more. Compete in contests for prizes and to pick which episodes we watch!

+Featuring a summer cook out menu from Urban Rustic including hot dogs, hamburgers (both meat and veggie varieties) and lots of other tasty snacks.
+Themed summertime cocktails, like Sex on the Beach and Pina Coladas
+90’s TV trivia competition for free drinks
+Beach balls!
+”Hassel-Off” chest hair contest
+Limbo competition
+Come in costume! Prize for the best cheesy 90’s tourist outfit (bust out that nylon green fanny pack!)
+DJ Brian Blackout spinning 90’s summer hits
+Prizes including tickets to upcoming Bell House shows, beach gear and more!

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Tuesday, June 28 · Doors 7pm / Show 8pm - $5

at The Bell House
149 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY
www.thebellhouseny.com

This TV Party is dedicated to the coolest sci-fi program of the last decade: Battlestar Galactica. Time magazine called it the best show on television while it was on the air. Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the show “has distinguished itself as one of television’s very best dramas — on a par with 24, The Wire, and Lost”.

To sum up: A space drama that’s not too spacey or sci-fiey. Awesome actors. Great writing. EDWARD JAMES OLMOS! Hot chicks and, I’ve been told, sexy dudes. Robots.  Wikipedia calls it: a military science fiction serial drama television series. It’s an engaging, tense and exciting show that’s a whole lot of fun to watch. Kind of like The West Wing…in space…with more fighting.

Basically, this show is frakkin’ awesome!

+There’s tons of drinking on the show so come prepared for drinking games!
+Cylon Raider cookies for you to destroy…with your mouth!
+Costume Contest: Which Cylon will you be? Can you grow a sweet beard like Gaius Baltar? Got a cool Colonial Fleet pilot outfit?
+Performance by Kara Thrace and Her Special Destiny playing cover songs you know and love!
+Guess the Cylon Competition!
+Themed drinks like Colonel Tigh’s Secret Stash, Leonis Estates Sparkling Wine, Ambrosia, Virgon Brew and more!
+BG trivia to test your knowledge of the show!

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