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Sun. May 30 Last call! Trailer parks? We just can't get enough of 'em can we? Whether it's a hurricane ripping through them again (laying waste all round) or just serving as a modifer for the word "trash," they're part of the American landscape. And the name of the 2004-2005 Off-Broadway hit, "The Great American Trailer Park Musical," which will have its Boston-area premiere at Boston Center for the Arts with its last weekend, wrapping up today Sunday May 30. It's produced by SpeakEasy Stage Company.
What's it got in it? Agoraphobia, adultery, spray cheese, flan, road kill, hysterical pregnancy, kleptomania and disco. It focuses the lives and loves of a North Florida trailer park community. (There's an awful lot of trailer parks in Florida. My aunt and uncle spent the warm months in one for a time, although it was, I guess you'd say, an upscale park. Swimming pool, clubhouse. Who's in it? Broadway actor David Benoit, a native of Fall River, will join Boston actresses Leigh Barrett, Mary Callanan and Kerry A. Dowling for what the producers acknowledge is an "over-the-top show."Also featured in the cast are Boston Conservatory Master’s program graduate Caitlin Crosbie Doonan, recent Emerson alumnus Grant MacDermott, and Boston Conservatory student Santina Umbach. SpeakEasy Producting Artistic Director Paul Daigneault will direct this local premiere, assisted by Nick Connell (music director/conductor) and David Connolly (choreography). It features music and lyrics by David Nehls and a book by Betsy Kelso. Tickets: $54-$30. It's in the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600 www.SpeakEasyStage.com |