REWIND Rave-Along: Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Name: REWIND Rave-Along: Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Start: 2025-09-20T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Tampa Theatre

Schedule

Sat, 20 Sep, 2025 at 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Tampa Theatre | Tampa, FL

1h 38m / R / Musical, Sci-fi, Horror
TRAILER:

VENUE: Historic Duncan Auditorium
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Listen: if you’re going to watch Repo!, one way or another you’re not sitting still. So why not lean into it? As part of our new REWIND Rave-Along series, Tampa Theatre is not going to enforce our normal rules on sitting down and being quiet. Instead, we’re having a party!
Get ready to get up out of your seat and dance, make some noise during the songs, enjoy pre-show music by DJ Rich Ranck, feel free to come dressed in costume, and enjoy some other fun surprises we have planned for these events — and be aware that the rest of the audience will be, too!
FILM SYNOPSIS:
Brian Eno once said that the first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band. Tampa Theatre played Repo! The Genetic Opera in its first run, back in 2008. And while the response back then may have been on the small side, it would seem that everyone who saw it became obsessed with it. To be fair, if you’re prone to become obsessed with a camp-conscious sci-fi body-horror rock opera, you don’t have many options — Repo! is, first and foremost, an absolutely singular cultural artifact.
In 2056, the megacorporation GeneCo offers organ transplants with a payment plan, and everybody needs them. If you get a GeneCo organ and you miss your payments, they send out the Repo Men. It’s as painful as you imagine. When the CEO of GeneCo, Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), discovers he is terminally ill, he decides to pass over his three terrible children and everything to Shilo (Alexa Vega), the daughter of his late ex-fiancée. All Shilo wants to do is cure herself of her rare, awful disease that keeps her indoors forever. She believes learning more about her family is the only way to do that. And all the clues point her back to GeneCo, Largo, and the wildly anticipated upcoming Genetic Opera. It also stars Paris Hilton and Sarah Brightman. This is important to know.