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GREATER TUNA
Greater Tuna is served up hot!
Two actors play 22 characters in famous quick-change comedy.
One things for sure. When Greater Tuna rolls into town on Thursday, September 3rd, audiences will be treated to an astonishing tour de force of comic acting.
But if youve been living under a rock and somehow havent heard about this world-famous comedy romp, well, heres the deal: Two performers who are part actor and part quick-change artist dominate the hilarious and often strange activity that comprises a typical day in Tuna, Texas - the Lone Star States third-smallest city, where the Lions Club is deemed too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies.
In fact, it takes a team of lightning-fast dressers backstage to help create the twenty-odd oddballs who represent the population of the entire Greater Tuna Area men, women, children, and animals. Some quick-changes occur in fewer than four seconds.
The show opens with the morning news report from the low-power radio station, OKKK (275 watts) hosted by two slow-talking broadcast celebrities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie who keep the town up-to-date on Tunas late-breaking news.
The play then quick-changes to all the various news scenes and crime scenes around town. For instance, Judge Buckner dies under mysterious circumstances, Vera Carp and her censorship club (the Smut Snatchers of the New Order) meet to censor the dictionary, town drunk R.R. Snavely spots a UFO shaped like a bean burrito, the Tuna Little Theatre performs My Fair Lady using the scenery and costumes from South Pacific and the towns one-man Humane Society launches an urgent campaign to rescue homeless ducks.
Coyote StageWorks, Palm Springs newest theatre company will present their inaugural production of Greater Tuna, written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Larry Raben directs the hilarity, which is swiftly performed by Alan Denny and Chuck Yates. All three men are Coyote StageWorks founding members.
Greater Tuna will be performed as a guest company at THE THORNY THEATRE, September 3rd through September 27th - Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays @ 8 p.m. & Saturdays and Sundays @ 2 p.m. Tickets for the show are $22.
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LocationThe Thorny Theatre
2500 North Palm Canyon Dr. Suite 4A
Palm Springs, CA 92262
United States
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