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presentsBoom Town!
-- or - -The Sinister Slickster's Fuelish Frame-upApril 16 and 17, 7:30 p.m. and a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.
In the photo: Villain Larson E. Sneedhearne (Tom Rolls) attempts to hypnotize Katrina Love (Karen Ewton).
This original melodrama features explosions, villains, heroes, sidekicks, the environment-saving Manure Mobile® and the "comely lass," coinciding with the Renewable Energy Stampede & Green Living Fair in Salado (April 17-18). Come cheer the hero, boo the villain and maybe throw a little popcorn too.
Boom Town! also has a "movie-ola," a locally shot, wild, 20-minute chase scene that begins on stage and continues on-screen with live musical accompaniment arranged by Nelda Milligan.
Tickets are $15 for adults; $12 for senior citizens, military personnel and students with ID; and $8 for children aged 12 and under for evening shows. For matinees, $10 for adults and $8 for all others. Group rates are available. For reservations, call the Silver Spur box office at 254-947-3456. For directions or more play info, visit www.SaladoSilverSpur.com .
Compression facilitates explosion.
This is a relatively simple application of basic physics. External pressure applied to a volatile gas speeds combustion, renders it the violent and maximizes heat. That's one of the principles that runs your automobile with its internal combusion engine.
Director/designer David Schneider at the Gaslight Baker Theatre in Lockhart applies the principle to Jeff Daniels' sardonically titled "Boom Town."
Schneider shrinks the focus within the wide proscenium by masking the wings with black curtains, and sharply narrowing the playing space to a nearly claustrophobic kitchen set.
He has cast the three roles for maximum credibility. There's not a breath of comedy or of exaggeration here. Two men and a women are linked by a failing business in a failing small town. They constitute a triangle. . . in geometry the most stable of figures but in human relations potentially the most volatile.
Read More at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .
UPDATE: Click for ALT review of May 27
Boom Town
This season's most intensive drama, was, surprisingly, written by Jeff Daniels (of "Dumb and Dumber" fame).
This production features three of†the Gaslight-Baker's most talented and seasoned actors: Todd Martin("Almost, Maine", "Sleuth"), Christy Smith ("Almost, Maine","Bus Stop") and the Gaslight-Baker's Artistic Director, Randy Wachtel ("Glass Menagerie"). It is directed by David Schneider ("Sorry, Wrong Chimney")
Synopsis:
Angela Tompkins (Smith), has a husband (Wachtel), a failing convenience store and a dream of running off to Chicago with her lover (Martin), the local banker. In an explosive story that mixes small-town politics, love and betrayal, Angela is forced to face reality when her husband finds out the truth.
You will be sitting on the edge of your seat as you are drawn into the characters' lives and their interwined situation. As we have become a society of voyuers, enjoying reality television, this play delivers the same feeling - we are involved in, exposed to this train wreck of relationships playing out right in front of us, on the stage.
Friday and Saturday, May 22 - June 6 at 8:00 PM.
House opens at 7:30.
May 30 Special Matinee Performance at 2:00 PM.From the website:
Please note that this play is rated NC-17 and will contain strong language and adult situations.
Purchase Tickets Here
On-line tickets only are available for standard $12 ticket...any special promotions, group rates, senior / student prices, etc., will have to be purchased in person at the box office. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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