 The Laugh's on Us!
What makes you laugh? A pie in the face? Sophisticated word play? A bawdy limerick? Comic genius Milton Berle called laughter “an instant vacation.” This season at Bristol Valley Theater, we invite you to pack your bags and climb aboard, as each of our five summer productions takes a different route to your funny bone.
We'll start our season off with Let's Misbehave, a brand new revue of the music and lyrics one of the wittiest writers in the American Songbook, Cole Porter:
"Electric eels I might add do it/Though it shocks em I know/Why ask if shad do it? - Waiter bring me 'shad roe'/In shallow shoals English soles do it/Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it/Let's do it, let's fall in love!"
If clever rhymes, urbane lyrics, and melodies from the jaunty to the haunting are your cup of tea, you'll get a kick out of our season opener.
If down home humor is more your style, you'll want to join the good ol' boys and girls from Tuna, Texas in Red White and Tuna, a patriotic visit to the third smallest town in the Lone Star state, where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. The belly laughs burst like 4th of July fireworks as a host of zany characters converge for the Tuna High School Reunion.
The Broadway Musical Comedy is an indigenous American comic art form and one of the funniest in recent years is Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (based on the hit movie). Two devilishly funny con men vie to out -scheme and out-scam each other at swindling the rich and famous out of their fortunes. If your sense of humor ranges toward the outrageous, you'll be rolling in the aisles.
If side-splitting, door-slamming farce makes you giggle, you won't want to miss 2008 Tony-Award winner Boeing Boeing, where an American bachelor keeps three flight attendant fiancees in a high energy holding pattern – always with one on the ground and two in the air. When bad weather blows in, and planes get grounded, things get pretty turbulent for our hero as he shuffles all three in and out of his swinging bachelor pad.
And this year, even our mystery is played for laughs in Murderers. The body count at Riddle Key Retirement Community is alarmly high, even for Florida! And three of the least likely, and most amusing culprits are behind it. The fun isn't guessing who -dunnit, but how and why!
Frederich Nietzsche (now he was a funny guy!) wrote, “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” So join us this summer! Titter, snicker, snort, guffaw, throw back your head and howl. It'll make people wonder what you're up to....
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