200 Motels Concerts

Performances of 200 Motels:

Los Angeles October 23rd 2013

Walt Disney Concert Hall. Recorded and released as 200 Motels - The Suites.

London October 29th 2013

Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall.

Tony Guilfoyle as Zappa

View the Programme booklet

• Claron McFadden, soprano
• Tony Guilfoyle (Frank)
• Richard Strange (Narrator, Rance)
• Ian Shaw (Mark)
• Brendan Reilly (Howard, Cowboy Burt)
• Sophia Brous (Groupie 1, Larry the Dwarf)
• Diva Zappa (Groupie 2, Lucy)
• Jessica Hynes (Good Conscience)
• Jay Rayner (Bad Conscience, Ginger)
• Scott Thunes (Jeff)

• BBC Concert Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, London Voices

• Jurjen Hempel, conductor.

BBC Audio with introduction including Ben Watson's views. (YouTube)

Srictly Genteel shaky video

Paris September 30th 2018

Paris performance

• TV host (Cowboy Burt): Lionel Painter
• Janet (The Reporter): Marina Ruiz
• Lucy (Donovan): Aliénor Feix
• Frank (Larry the Dwarf, Jeff): Dominic Gould
• Mark: Zachary Wilder
• Howard: Nicholas Scott
• The Solo Soprano: Mélanie Boisvert
• Rance (Ginger): Nicholas Isherwood
• The HeadShakers
• The Percussions de Strasbourg
• Metabolics
• Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
• Music Direction, Léo Warynski

Video (YouTube)

Amsterdam June 24th 2000

Koninklijk Theater Carré

• Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest and Cappella Amsterdam
• Conductor: Jurjen Hempel

• Morgan Ågren
• Mats Öberg
• Claron McFadden
• Jon Rubin and Tommy Dunbar as Flo & Eddie
• Lieuwe Visser as Rance Muhammitz and Jeff's bad conscience

Audio (audience recording) (YouTube)