The live show
MythBusters: Behind the Myths, starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts
of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series "MythBusters," returns to the
The Bushnell's Mortensen Hall for one night only on Wednesday, December 3 at
7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale now. The show promises to be an outrageous
evening of entertainment featuring brand new onstage experiments,
behind-the-scenes stories and some of your all-time favorites. A new immersive
video experience will keep you bolted to your seat.
MythBusters:
Behind the Myths brings you face-to-face with the curious world of Jamie
and Adam as the duo matches wits on stage with each other and members of the
audience. The show played a first sold out date at The Bushnell in March 2012.
Tickets for Mythbusters: Behind the Myths are available at The Bushnell box
office, 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford, by phone at 860-987-5900, and online at
bushnell.org.
One of the most highly
regarded and watched series on the Discovery Channel, "MythBusters"
is now in its twelfth season. Co-hosted by Hyneman and Savage, the show mixes scientific method with gleeful
curiosity and plain old- fashioned ingenuity to create its own signature style
of explosive experimentation - and the supporting or de-bunking of urban myths
that we live with day to day.
Adam and Jamie have
become spokespersons at large for applying science to real life - most recently
as hosts of the Discovery Channel special ""iGenius: How Steve Jobs
Changed the World," and have appeared on numerous shows including
"Late Show with David Letterman," "Good Morning America,"
"The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson," "The Colbert
Report," NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Morning
Edition," "Countdown with Keith Olberman," and many more. They
were invited to participate in Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to
Restore Fear and/or Sanity and have received the Young Artist Award for
inspiring young people in the interest of science.
The MythBusters have been invited to participate on a panel at Comic-Con, where
their appearances have sold-out four years running.
Adam and Jamie serve as
guest editors for Popular Mechanics and were featured on the cover of the
September 2009 issue. That same year, they were inducted as honorary members
into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. They are Honorary Lifetime
Members of the California Science Teachers Association and were named Honorary
Engineers and Honorary Members of the Francis Crowe Society at the University
of Maine. Both Hyneman and Savage were given honorary Doctorates at the
University of Twente in the Netherlands for their efforts at popularization of
science.
Adam and Jamie produced
and starred in an H1N1 Public Service Announcement for the White House, and
were chosen by the President to retest the Archimedes legend using 500
schoolchildren as surrogate soldiers.
They appeared as
themselves in the movie Darwin Awards and have made several cameos on other TV
shows, including CSI. And In 2010, Hyneman and Savage received the Outstanding
Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Secular
Society.
Jamie Hyneman is the
owner of M5 Industries, an effects company specializing in problematic custom
builds. Besides serving as headquarters of "MythBusters," M5
continues to work on various research & development projects for private
clients.
After trying his hand
at careers as various as librarian at the United Nations in Geneva to running a
diving and sailing charter business in the Caribbean, Hyneman began his career
in show business as special effects shop assistant in New York and later in San
Francisco as a crew member on films including "Robocop,"
"Arachnophobia" and "Naked Lunch."
While managing Colossal
Pictures' model shop in San Francisco, Hyneman was given the opportunity to
take over - and M5 Industries was born.
Hyneman graduated from
Indiana University with a degree in Russian. He has received an honorary
engineering degree from the University of Maine as well as an honorary
doctorate of engineering from Villanova University, with whom he has an ongoing
collaborative relationship to help develop new safety concepts for the
military. He is the holder of several patents and the winner of numerous industry
awards.
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