Tuesday, December 17 and Wednesday, December 18īuffet Dinner 6:00 p.m., Curtain 7:00 p.m. Foley sound effects, musical accompaniment, and authentic 1940s commercial spots are all part of this Taos Onstage family holiday tradition. Now, sit back and enjoy the fun as we portray radio actors of yesteryear appearing before a live studio audience with the sweet nonsense and madcap humor of this 1937 classic romantic comedy. The show is a stylistic model for the television sitcoms that evolved decades. First produced in 1939 in the mold of the zany, madcap stage comedies of that decade, it features fast entrances and exits, and lots of flamboyant eye-rolling. Add to this Alice, the relatively normal daughter, who brings her Wall Street boyfriend and his strait-laced parents to meet her loony and lovable family. That’s the set-up in the classic Kaufman and Hart Broadway comedy, The Man Who Came to Dinner. Enter the wonderfully eccentric Sycamore household, among whom we find a philosophic patriarch who refuses to work or pay taxes, a fireworks enthusiast, and a hapless fledgling ballerina. The holiday season is the perfect time to go to theatre just to laugh, to escape, to marvel at life. Thursday-Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m. explores whether life is inherently such a bummer that there's no point going on, or whether life itself is its own darn good reason for hope and optimism.Īudience members should be aware that there is strong adult language and gunshots in this production. Rousing, thought-provoking and rich in content, LIFE SUCKS. riffs on topics including work-life balance, the fate of the environment, why we love to hate gyms, academic pretension, depression, growing old, how families are both impossible and indispensable, and our never-ending effort to balance morality and desire. A mashup of melancholy and hilarity, LIFE SUCKS. As the characters stumble along in their quest to know the meaning of life, each shows a different agony, angle of vision, and self-referential obsession. Gathered in a country home that has seen better days, a group of old friends, ex-lovers, estranged in-laws, and lifelong enemies grapples with life's thorniest questions - and each other. This contemporary reworking of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is a light-hearted and ultimately life-affirming examination of the ways in which we try to tell ourselves and the world that we actually matter. Whimsy and tradition collide in You Can’t Take It With You, a madcap comedy written by Moss Hart and George S Kaufman that asks us to question the conventional and embrace the mayhem of an unusual family.Sort of adapted from Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov It’s an old warhorse, but new laughs are guaranteed. The slight tinge of creative madness that affects most of her family has bypassed Alice, and when she falls in love with the son of a prominent Wall Street businessman, she fears her mercurial relatives will undo her chances at living a normal life. It’s a mantra that suited Moss Hart and George Kaufman to a semi-colon and works all over again. It seems as if the Sycamores have created the perfect artist’s haven, but Alice, the youngest daughter, sees her family as forgetful, erratic, and distracted. They live in a house populated by their extensive creative projects and varied pursuits, and everyone with an open heart and a will to create is welcome to stay as long as they wish. A snake enthusiast, a pyrotechnician, a confectioner, and a xylophonist these are just a few of the brilliant, but slightly odd members of the Sycamore family.
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