The Artist Series Presents MYTHBUSTERS: BEHIND THE MYTHS TOUR, 10/14

The all-new, live show "MythBusters: Behind the Myths," starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series "MythBusters," debuts at Jacksonville's Times-Union Center's Moran Theater for two performances only on Sunday, October 14th at 4:00PM and 7:00PM. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, July 12th at 10AM and are available at www.artistseriesjax.org or (904) 632-3373. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more; call (904) 632-3228 or email groupsales@fscj.edu.

Two limited seating packages are available online at www.artistseriesjax.org after the public on-sale, Thursday, July 12th at 10AM. The VIP Package, available for both shows, includes one orchestra pit seat and an autographed poster. The Meet and Greet Package, exclusive to the 7PM show only, includes a premium orchestra pit seat, an autographed 8X10 photo, and a post-show Meet and Greet.

"MythBusters: Behind the Myths" presents a fantastical evening of experiments, audience participation, rocking video and behind-the-scenes stories. With this show, for the first time, fans join Jamie and Adam and assist in their mind-blowing and mind-twisting approach to science.

"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. Last winter and spring, the show performed a 28-city national tour playing sold-out performances all over the country.

One of the Discovery Channel's most highly regarded and watched series, "MythBusters" is now in its ninth season. Co-hosted by Hyneman and Savage, "MythBusters" 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. "MythBusters" has 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. In 2010, Hyneman and Savage received the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Secular Society.

Tickets for "MythBusters: Behind the Myths" begin at $37.00 and are available at www.artistseriesjax.org or (904) 632-3373 after the public on-sale, Thursday, July 12th at 10AM. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more at (904) 632-3228 or groupsales@fscj.edu.

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