Tucson: SEE ROCK CITY and DEVIL BOYS FROM BEYOND! LAST CHANCE

 

From: Dolly Spalding [mailto:dbspalding@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:06 PM
Subject: SEE ROCK CITY and DEVIL BOYS FROM BEYOND! LAST CHANCE

 

FINAL WEEKEND! See Rock City & Other Destinations, by Brad Alexander and Adam Mathias won the 2011 Drama Desk award for best book, 2008 Richard Rodgers Award and the 2007 Jerry Bock Award. Featuring singers Nicholas Gallardo, Miranda Sloan, Brian Levario, Amy DeHaven, Rob Roberts, Justin Moore, Kevin Vidal, Jon Holmes and Jolene Lucas. A wanderer believes his destiny is written on rooftops along the North Carolina Interstate. A young man yearns to connect with intelligent life in Roswell , New Mexico . A woman at the Alamo steps out of the shadow of her grandparents' idealized romance to take a chance on love. Three estranged sisters cruise to Glacier Bay to scatter their father's ashes. Two high school boys face unexpected fears in the Coney Island Spook House. A terrified bride-to-be ponders taking the leap...over Niagara Falls . With a score that incorporates pop, rock, folk and more, each story builds on the last to create a vivid travelogue of Americans learning to overcome their fears and expectations. Play Friday, Saturday, Nov. 18 and 19, 7:30pm ~ Sunday, Nov. 20, 3pm. Tickets $22.50 student/senior/teacher, $25.00 general. 

 

"The need to wander, and connect, is what strings these eight stories together. "Rock City" has a score that is largely pop, and you'll find some infectious numbers in it." Arizona Daily Star "The actors all have strong voices, and a few are truly impressive" The Tucson Weekly

AND 

Devil Boys from Beyond by Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott was a hit at the New York Fringe Festival. Arizona Onstage Productions' first late night show brings a little of that sensibility to Tucson. Summer of 1957 is a scorcher and something strange is going on in the swamps of Lizard Lick, Florida. With rumors of missing people and giant spaceships running rampant, star NYC reporter Mattie Van Buren races down in search of her next Pulitzer, her booze-hound ex-husband, Gregory Graham in tow, and her arch-enemy Lucinda Marsh hot on her heels to scoop her story. Flying saucers! Backstabbing bitches! Muscle hunks and men in pumps! INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS meets HIS GIRL FRIDAY in this outrageously insane comedy that is Rated R for Rude! With over the top performances by Andrew Baughman, Nick Gallardo, Brian Levario, T. Loving, Ina Shivack and Eric Taylor, Devil Boys plays Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18 and 19, 10pm ~ Sunday, Nov. 20, 6pm. All tickets are $15.00. 

 

"Everything about the play suggests irreverence. It's a tribute to the campy sci-fi movies of the 1950s and other cinema classics--it's full of characters that evoke His Girl Friday, Peyton Place and Mommie Dearest." Tucson Weekly. "The camped-up story of aliens impregnating earthlings so their race can perpetuate (we think that's the reason) is a one-joker. But the joke worked for two big reasons: Eric Taylor and Andrew Baughman, who play the leads in drag. The show has a couple of other things going for it, namely raunchiness and a willingness to make each moment more outrageous than the last." Arizona Daily Star

------------------------------------------------------------

TucsonStage.com - home of Chuck Graham's "Let the Show Begin"

Visit the website for TTA Listserv subscription information