If y'all get thru this you will probably look like this at then end. This is how I found the DB as I was typing this - she was really bored!! This is her normal position while I'm on the computer - either this or getting petted on my lap.
This has been my week to 10 days since 3/5/09. I will attempt to put descriptions of the plays if you want to read about them. I cautioned you about the 3 plays on one night in last message.
3/5 - Theater 3 - "Don't Dress for Dinner"
3/6 - Water Tower 1. "Takin' A Break From Sex and 2. "Showgirls 2.0"
3/7 - Water Tower 1. "One Man Star Wars Triology" 2. "Straight" 3. "Deconstructing"
3/8 - Stars vs Montreal
3/9 - Water Tower "Pvt. Wars"
3/10 - Water tower "Cowboy vs Samurai"
3/11 - Water Tower "Some People"
3/12 - Stars vs Carolina
3/13 - DSO - Glenn Miller Orchestra with Debbie Boone
3/14 - Stars vs Minnesota
3/15 - Brahamas vs Wichita (CHL Hockey) Maybe not as I need a rest
All but 2 worth watching - Showgirls and Some People - should have left ShowGirls early but stayed to the end. Some People had polite applause at the end and comments of "What was that about?" All others very interesting in their own way
The following are taken from the respective Websites - have to reference my material to avoid copyright infringement
Don't Dress for Dinner
Infidelities and frustrated couplings are a long French literary specialty. Moliere, Marivaux, and Feydeau abound with witty repartee as men scramble after women, and women delight in the pursuit. In this recent Paris (and London) hit, a very modern French husband is planning to host a dinner in his wife’s absence. The dinner is a prelude to a liaison with his mistress, a plan the husband has divulged to his best friend. But, surprise! Can you guess who the best friend has as his mistress? And who is this beguiling female chef sent to concoct the perfect seductive meal?
Takin' a Break From Sex
Written and performed by Andy & Joleen MullinsIn Takin’ a Break from Sex, Andy and Joleen Mullins have taken marriage, friendship, mid-life crisis, and absurdities of relationships, along with some silliness, and have written them into original comedic sketches that range from clever to brazen. This married comedy couple invites you to sit back and enjoy their fun romp through scenes emphasizing that opposite sex perceptions are a myriad of crazy conversations and hilarious situations.
Showgirls 2.0 with David Schmader
Upon its 1995 release, Paul Verhoeven’s glitzy stripper drama SHOWGIRLS earned some of the most extravagantly awful reviews in cinema history. “A film of thunderous oafishness," wrote Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times, with critics around the globe unanimously damning Showgirls as a failure doomed to die in infamy.Only it didn’t. Since its original release, SHOWGIRLS has grown into a full-fledged cult phenomenon, thanks in no small part to the cinematic missionary work undertaken by David Schmader, the critically acclaimed writer and performer who hosted his first annotated screenings of the film at Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum in 1999. Part art-appreciation lecture, part sit-down comedy routine, all against the backdrop of Verhoeven’s peerlessly offensive, flesh-drenched disaster, SHOWGIRLS with David Schmader was an instant hit, packing theaters in Seattle and touring to film festivals across the country, with Schmader reintroducing Verhoeven’s hideous folly to a generation of filmgoers as the most inadvertent, surreally hilarious comedy in film history.Just a warning: This show is rated NC-17. No one under the age of 17 will be admitted.
One Man Star Wars Trilogy
A one-hour, high energy, nonstop blast through the first three Star Wars films. The catch is, there's only one cast member. Charles Ross, the writer and solo performer, spent too much of his childhood in a galaxy far, far away- adulthood has been similar. Ross plays all the characters, recreates the effects, sings the music, flies the ships, and fights both sides of the battles.
Straight
Straight is David Schmader's hilarious and subversive solo play about the world of conversion therapy, where gays and lesbians are reputedly "cured" of their homosexuality and made "straight." Plunging into the heart of this highly charged territory—from going undercover at "ex-gay" support groups in Seattle to an intensive crash course in Christian heterosexuality deep in the heart of Texas—writer/performer Schmader blends an essayist's insight with the spark of stand-up comedy to get to the bottom of what it means to be "straight."
The Victims present Deconstructing...
The Victims are bringing highly theatrical unscripted comedic mayhem to the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival with their show Deconstructing… Each night The Victims will create a totally improvised show based on the true stories of a very special guest.
Pvt. Wars
Set in a veterans hospital post Vietnam War, Pvt. Wars follows the abundant, and sometimes absurd, exploits of Silvio, Gately, and Natwick. This uplifting portrayal of everyday life in the wake of war artfully blends humor and pain, triumph and uncertainty. Laughs of every type are sure to abound in James McClure's acidly funny portrayal of three young men working to resolve their own private wars.
Cowboy versus Samurai
Travis Park is a high school English teacher and the only Korean American man living in a dusty cowboy town known as Breakneck, Wyoming.And when a gorgeous, whip-smart Asian American woman moves into town, he immediately falls for her; the only problem is that she only dates white men.In this savagely funny and often moving comic re-telling of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, one man must choose allegiance between his cowboy friend (a dim, handsome, Caucasian P.E. teacher named Del) and his Asian Brother-with-a-Capital-B (crazed, militant Asian of Unknown Origin, Chester). He must choose between the Asian American and the American within himself – between Cowboy versus Samurai – in a pursuit of a love that may only be as real as the love letters he writes for someone else.Due to some strong language and crude humor, parental guidance is advised.
Some People
Some People is about an ordinary Dallas suburb. The husband, wife and kid, relatives, neighbors, and friends—some people who hear voices, stare off into space thinking of nothing, and have no idea how they got there. No matter how they try the world makes no sense. Is it a dream? A comic routine? What’s going on? As time and space fold and spin something happens to some people we know. Things are different…and they like it.
