ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MAD FUN?

Saturday Night

June 8, 2024

Online ticket sales are closed.
Tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Tickets from $125 – $10,000

Proceeds support the Museum.


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Let the FUN Begin!

You won’t want to miss the MAD Bash
celebrating this summer’s most fun and irreverent exhibition
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine.

Saturday night, June 8, 2024
6—10:34 pm
5 pm early access for Sponsors and Alfred’s VIP ticket buyers!

Art, music, comedy, festive nosh & libations, and a lot of laughs, all benefiting the Museum.

Mingle with some of MAD’s gang—usual and unusual idiots; aka – artists, illustrators, comic creators, writers, collectors, and co-curator/satirical illustrator Steve Brodner.

Laugh with comedian Kevin Bartini, (“Billy Jones” on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; The Daily Show, The Colbert Report; comedy writer for HBO, Comedy Central, and MSNBC; and Berkshire grown!)

MAD & RAD Photo Ops with Berkshire Photo Booth, and some other cheeky surprises. MADly creative Catering by Kate Baldwin.

Pizza Trails, wood fired pizza truck, serving delicious pies from 8 – 10pm courtesy of the Next Gen Council!

DANCE or make fun of others dancing to the tunes of BFG ! ! #*%!
Wear your MAD, festive, outrageous party attire… or not; but wear something!

First dibs on New MAD MERCH & hard-to-find collectibles !!!!!!!

Your MAD BASH planners:
Anthony Barbera, Alexander Brown, Tim Butterworth, Jen Capala, Ellen Casey Boyd, Richard Cappellazzo, Alice Carter, Bob & Lynne Horvath, Steph Iverson, Alison Lotto, Kim Ruffing, Suzannah VanSchaick, Lauren Gaudette and Garrett Neff, & Taylor Williams

MAD BASH Underwriters:

George Bain, Bob & Lynne Horvath, Kim & Tom Ruffing, David Schwartz & Nan Thompson, Hans & Kate Morris, Wheaton, Peter Chase Williams, Hal and Ellen Freiman, Sherry Halpern, Ramelle and Michael Pulitzer, Mary Grant and James Canavan, and Carol and Irv Smokler

MAD Bash Tickets

5 p.m. Early Access Tickets

Exhibition preview plus mix-and-mingle with co-curators and MAD artists! Choose from four supporting ticket options:

Mad About MAD Lead Sponsor  $10,000
10 Bash Tickets; exhibition sponsor listing in NRM/MAD Exhibition Magazine* and on panel in galleries.* Signed copy of NRM/MAD Magazine.   *if confirmed by May 2

Madly Snappy Supporter $5,000
4 Bash Tickets and a signed NRM/MAD Exhibition Magazine

MAD Bash Sponsor $2500
2 Bash Tickets and an NRM/MAD Exhibition Magazine

Alfred’s VIPs $500
1 Bash Ticket with full unadulterated access to the evening’s activities

Usual Gang Tickets $250
6 pm admission to the Bash, comic performance at 7:30, and the dance party!

Fold Me In Dance Party $125
8 pm admission for laughter, irreverence, pizza, and dancing with BFG.

MAD exhibition galleries will be open until 9:00 pm

RSVP:

Online ticket sales are closed. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Or call 413-931-2265
Or mail your check to Norman Rockwell Museum, PO Box 308, Stockbridge, MA 01262

Make it a MAD weekend; reserve lodging early, places do fill up!

Images: above– Richard Williams, Alfred E. Neuman & Norman Rockwell, 2002. Cover illustration for Mad Art: A Visual Celebration of MAD Magazine and the Idiots Who Create It (Watson Guptill, 2002) | Norman Mingo, Help Stamp Out Mad, 1963. #78. James Halperin Collection, Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, HA.com. MAD and all related elements ™ & © E.C. Publications. Courtesy of DC. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.

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