BUCKFIELD — The lab-coated duo who fashioned Vegas-style fountains from Diet Coke and Mentos candy plan to unveil their new experiment next week for TV cameras and a live audience.
And it will be free.
“It’s a big adventure, and it’s fun to have everybody here in Buckfield along for the ride,” said Fritz Grobe, one half of the duo known as Eepybird.
The live performance is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at an undisclosed location.
“If you get yourself to Buckfield, we will have signs to point you in the right direction,” Grobe said. People are asked to arrive no earlier than 6:30 p.m.
It’s likely to be the biggest homegrown audience yet for the duo — Grobe and Stephen Voltz. In Maine, their audiences are typically intimate. However, they have performed around the world and for crowds surpassing 10,000 people. Their videos have been seen more than 100 million times.
The live show is meant to work as the finale of a TV pilot for an unnamed cable network.
“We can’t say who this is for, yet,” Grobe said.
That may soon change. Crews plan to arrive in Buckfield on Wednesday, he said. Work on the pilot will begin immediately.
The town of 2,000 is expected to be a character in the TV program and it will continue that way if the show moves forward, Grobe said.
“We don’t want to be moving to Los Angeles or New York,” Grobe said. “We want to be living and working in Maine.”
Grobe and Voltz announced the new project in September on the stage of Buckfield’s Oddfellow Theater, a room with fewer than 200 seats where they debuted their soda-and-candy fountains.
Theater owner and “Early Evening Show” host Mike Miclon has been named an associate producer of the new show.
“He is helping on every corner of this,” Grobe said. “It’s awesome.”
Miclon will take the stage with Grobe and Voltz for the show. They will be joined by Oddfellow regulars such as juggling brothers Matthew and Jason Tardy.
What they’ll be doing on stage is a secret.
The last big unveiling of an Eepybird experiment involved waterfalls created with sticky notes. Another experiment armed the pair with leaf blowers, which they used to cover an Oddfellow audience with toilet paper in seconds.
Grobe refused to hint what this audience will see.
“You’re welcome to speculate,” he teased.
When: Friday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. (no admittance before 6:30 p.m.)
Where: Buckfield, follow the signs from the center of town
Admission: Free, but reservations are required
Call the Oddfellow Theater box office at (207) 336-3306
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