[Childfree] FW: Wacky, Witty & Wonderful Laughs

[Schwols, Keith C]

Free Beer Friday showing is next Friday (2/27).  Chris, Heather, Ann and I already have our tickets.  Everyone welcome to join us (and meet up for dinner before hand).

]<eith


"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one." - Goethe
From: OpenStage Theatre [mailto:denisef at openstagetheatre.org]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:41 PM
To: Schwols, Keith C
Subject: Wacky, Witty & Wonderful Laughs




Sometimes a woman has to grab life by the balls. Cheese balls.
  OpenStage Theatre presents the best
of Amy Sedaris & David Sedaris


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 "...[a] delightfully off-key, off-color hymn."
-New York Times

"...hilarious..." -Village Voice

"...acidic laughs...linguistic delight..."
-Variety

"...laugh-out-loud funny..."
-Broadway.com

Take two wildly successful cult satirists, add a dash of religion and The Wizard of Oz and, if you're lucky, you'll get OpenStage Theatre's production of The Book of Liz.

Writing under the name The Talent Family, author David Sedaris ("Me Talk Pretty One Day," "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" and umpteen monologues on NPR Radio's This American Life)and sister Amy Sedaris (star of television cult comedy Strangers With Candy and author of "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence") turned playwrights to bring their skewed view to this coming-of-middle-age comedy.

Liz has a fairly straight-forward plot: Sister Elizabeth Donderstock (Tracy Salter) is a cheese ball-making member of an Amish-like community known as the Squeamish who gets pushed down and pushed around by the Reverend Tollhouse (Timothy Ackerman) and new arrival Brother Nathaniel Brightbee (Zachary Brown). Eventually she can't take the pressure any more and runs off to the big bad outside world.

Ackerman, Brown and Salter also take on additional multiple roles, and OpenStage veteran Brenna A. Freestone adds to the confusion of characters, playing six different roles ranging from the incessant kibitzer Sister Constance Butterworth to a Ukrainian woman dressed as Mr. Peanut.

"Liz has much the same structure as The Wizard of Oz," said OpenStage Director Sydney Parks. "She feels unappreciated at home and decides to run away. She keeps meeting these wacky characters who all look like people she knows at home and she finally ends up realizing everything she needed is at home. She just needed to discover who she is."

"The basic framework is a fairly simple story about a woman finding herself and finding her self esteem," said Parks. "But Liz is anything but your usual, run-of-the-mill comedy. The beautiful thing about the Sedaris siblings is they can do anything with characters, which means I, as director, can do anything. Their entirely inappropriate, awkward and irreverent sense of humor allows me to do just about anything. I can have an actor walk on without pants and offer no explanation. We've been laughing our heads off at rehearsal. I just hope everyone thinks it's as hysterical as I do."

It's hard not to laugh at a play that includes a woman who sweats thunderstorms, a reverend who prays by offering a detailed list of compliments to God; and Ukrainians who speak English with Cockney accents because they learned the language from a chimney sweep.



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