Opening This Week: Who's on First, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, October 4 - 20

The Gaslight-Baker Theatre in Lockhart

proudly presents the zany nightmare comedy

 

Who's on First?

written by Joe Sharkey

directed by Lori Z. Cordova

Showtimes are Fridays and Saturdays Oct 4-20 @ 8 pm. Matinees Sun Oct 14 and Sat Oct 20 @ 2 pm

Tickets are $12 adults/ $10 seniors and students

To reserve seats or to get more information, go to http://www.mygbt.org/ or leave a message at 512-376-5653, The GBT is located on 216 S Main Street in Lockhart Tx 78644

The cast includes Candice Carr, Celeste Colburn, Bill Claussen and Stewart McGregor

Take a husband, a wife, a friend and a stranger, add a touch of miscommunication, a Genie's lamp and a party that begins at 8 and at 8 and at 8 and at 8 and... and you have "Who's On First?" - A Nightmare Comedy. Join us for a Zany Madcap Romp Through Time and Space - A Labyrinth of Hilarity - A Wacky Wacky show that will leave you laughing so hard you'll forget where you parked your car.

 


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Auditions in Lockhart for Who's on First, Gaslight Baker Theatre, July 29 & 30

AUDITIONS for Who's on First By Jack Sharkey

Sunday, July 29 at 2:00 pm, Monday, July 30 at 7:00 p.m. Directed by Lori Z. Cordova; plays October 5 - 20


Casting: 2 men and 2 women - NO prior stage experience necessary - Comedic timing and multiple accents are a plus

A zany comedy based on magic and misconceptions. Think Groundhog Day with accents. Five people are doomed to repeat the same senario multiple times, but each time has a twist - the characters are the same but in different circustances which leads to a different ending.  

Take a husband, a wife, a lover and a friend. Add a strange lamp, a gun and a rubber chicken plus a party that begins at 8 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m. and you have this "Nightmare Comedy." Four people find themselves relining one horrible hour over and over as themselves, as Japanese citizens, as British aristocrats, as gangsters, and almost anything else you can think of. Is it all an accident? Or is their dilemma part of someone's fiendish plan? A labyrinth of hilarity exits builds to a shocker of an ending to this wacky, wacky show. For more info, go to http://www.mygbt.org/

How The Other Half Lives by Alan Ayckbourn, City Theatre, March 25 - April 18

Alan Ayckbourn applies a clever staging twist of time and space in the first act of this contemporary English comedy of manners, and it is a delight to watch the City players accomplish it.

How The Other Half Loves, as the title implies, is a satire of class and sexual mores. I repeatedly mistyped that title in the ALT "images" feature for the production, because my fingers were finding their way back to How The Other Half Lives, the famous work of photojournalism by Jakob Riis, an 1890's exploration of the slums of New York City. That's an additional little ironic note on economic development in the UK, for these two couples are separated far more by class habits than by economic well being.

Frank Foster is the hapless, clueless university-graduate manager at an unidentified firm and Bob Phillips is his smugly lower-class subordinate. The generic living room represents the snug little homes of each man and his wife. Ayckborn's joke is that he runs separate actions simultaneously in the same space, with the couples unaware of one another's presence. This is better than cinematic cross-cutting of scenes, for we're suddenly endowed with a sort of hallucinogenic X-ray vision, comparing the couples, their relationships and their games with one another -- for we rapidly understand that Foster's wife the nervy, nervous Fiona was out the previous evening for a spontaneous roll in the hay with yobbo subordinate Bob Phillips. Phillips' wife Teresa is angry that he was out until 2 a.m. the previous evening and is avoiding her insistent questions about his whereabouts.

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