Tucson: $20 all preview tickets for The Great American Trailer Park Musical! (It's almost like shopping at the 99 cent store)

 

From: kevin johnson [mailto:azonstage@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 8:28 PM
Subject: $20 all preview tickets for The Great American Trailer Park Musical! (It's almost like shopping at the 99 cent store)

 

ARIZONA ONSTAGE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL

For immediate release:

Contact: Kevin Johnson, 270-3332

It's not the heat, it's the humidity that makes people forget their manners. And when the humidity is curling the hair and causing sweat to pour off the residents of Armadillo Acres, Starke, Florida's most exclusive manufactured housing community ("It's a trailer park!"), the quips fly and the rockabilly honky-tonk music sets nimble feet to dancing and melodies to soaring out beyond the chain link fence and pink flamingoes that surround the place. Besides Bad-Ass Betty, the manager, those denizens include Jeannie,  an agoraphobic, 17-year-old Pickles dealing with hysterical pregnancy, Lin (short for Linoleum), whose husband is on death row  – and then, bopping in and stirring everything up, newcomer Pippi, the on-the-run stripper, fleeing from a marker-sniffin', crazy-drivin' gun-totin' hick of an ex-boyfriend named  Duke. Norbert is Jeannie's toll collector husband who becomes involved in an inadvertent ménage a trois. When Duke shows up in Starke, plot twists materialize and unexpected bombshells explode to light up the stage and keep everyone on their toes (literally and figuratively).

The R-rated fun includes all manner of tacky inappropriate behavior and bad language, raucously incorporated in the upbeat jazz/country/blues/gospel soundtrack and hilarious book by David Nehls and Betsy Kelso. "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" went from success in the first annual New York Music Theater Festival in 2004 to a year's run off Broadway with a side trip to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival, a stint in Birmingham, England and then a successful and well-reviewed national tour.

With Direction and Choreography by Debbie Runge, Associate Direction by Kevin Johnson, Music Direction and Sound Design by Jon Marbry, Costumes by Shana Nunez, Set by Sheldon Metz, Lighting Design by Steve Giannoble, Trailer Park features an ensemble made up of some of Tucson's favorite singer/actors, including Jay C. Cotner, Amy Erbe, Charity LaPonsie, Jacinda Rose Swinehart, and newcomers Nick Gallardo, Ellie Jepperson and Chezale Rodriguez.

What the New York Press said:

"A DELICIOUS NEW MUSICAL. The joint is jammed and jumping with raucous laughter.  It's like 'The Honeymooners' meets 'The Best Little Whorehouse' in 'Urinetown.'"

-Liz Smith, Syndicated Columnist/NY Post

"The Trailer Park meets 'South Park' in this big-hearted new musical comedy with a cheeky script by Betsy Kelso, an infectious score by David Nehls and a richly talented cast. Trailer Park sparkles with treasure!"

-Liesl Schillinger, The New York Sun

"This wheel-spinning, mud-splattering good time of a show is the theatrical equivalent of a bag of Doritos.  You can't get enough.  Who could expect a thrillingly trashy Greek chorus of trailer park matrons whose hysterical musical stylings all but redefine the girl-group-as-cultural-commentator craze?  Or a number with enough show-stopping electricity to trump every musical that opened on Broadway last season?  Joys like these are rare enough in today's biggest hits."

-Matthew Murray, Talkin' Broadway

"A sparkling, sharp irreverence lights up this musical and makes it one of the most laugh-out-loud shows in town."

-Kevin Manganaro, Broadway.com

Plays at the Cabaret Space, Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave.

Performances:

Preview January 7, 2010, 7:30pm
January 8, 7:30pm
January 9, 7:30pm
January 10, 3pm
January 15, 7:30pm
January 16, 7:30pm
January 17, 3pm
January 22, 7:30pm
January 23, 7:30pm
January 24, 3pm

Tickets $25.00 student/senior (55 or older)
General $27.50
Groups of 10 or more, $22.50 each

Go to www.arizonaonstage.org for tickets or call 882-6574 for information.

 

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