Whew! Oy! Glad Lent's over! Forty days of self-deprivation; we're kaput, not to mention starved; howbeit … thanks that it weren't Forty days of self-flagellation, `eh? No spare flesh on these sub-tropical dwellers (already! with the hot and humid … My Kingdom for SPF 130 and a mosquito
repellent that kills these gargantuan blood suckers!) I do believe there's more cases of self-conflagration flaring up in these parts than any other place, save for Death Valley, CA (providing you believe in self-conflagration, aka, spontaneous combustion, in the first place). Best better put a FIN to these cutesy `self's; wouldn't want a Self-aggrandizement (can't stop it!) Charge, and this column to get torched by Jefé Arturo (or as said in Thai: pee Artier (pee meaning respected
older brother … Pee? … slightly different meaning on this side of the Pacific, I'd say!). Or, shalt we use: gra-pom Meiselman (he of higher status). No doubt he'd prefer that one; or, the ultimo of respect: dtai-tao (we under your feet). Whatever … It's springtime! … far better than the horrid winter just passed. We'll take it. Got no choice! The flowers are in bloom; and, lets get right to it, so are the shows of our town's local theatre - the pros at the
ever-expanding community theaters - the university drama departments, et al. Now all you `Big-Daddy's-in-rehearsal, for all those plenteous, obligatory LONG HOT SUMMER's; be it in Mobile, Tallahassee, Jackson, Natchez, (does Key West count?) and, naturellement, around-about our sweltering New Orleenz area; be forewarned: stay away from the beignets … you got the role, don't get `rollier' or tha heat'll get ta ya, big Guyz and Goils too. And, you `Brando wannabees', sorry,
you'll have to keep your shirts on for the STREETCAR… undershirts permissible, of course. Some call it bad timing, what with The Super Bowl, Mardi Gras, and the Final Four seemingly barely over; and we're now right smack in the middle of the 30th Annual New Orleans Jazzfest; HECK NO!; we call it Keeping Things On A Roll `n' Keeping The Peeps Outta Their Houses `n' Into Our Houses (we're Night and Day People down here…mostly Night, I do believe) … sooooo! let's roll out the Spring/Summer Theatre season, as it stands now, in Ol' New Orleans!
Let's begin with a Freebie! Wowee! LOYOLA UNIVERSITYSpring Senior Project One-Act Festival. Theatre: Lower Depths Theatre May 1, 5 & 6 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets: Free Admission Department of Drama and Speech, 865-3840 SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY of LSU in Hammond, Louisiana. Just a bit over one hour's drive from the Greater New Orleans Area. Even has rolling hills in nearby rural areas! Worth it. Playing is: ELEPHANT MAN by Bernard Pomerand Directed by Seliva Hue 7:30 in
the Vonnie Borden Theatre 1-985-549-2000 Season Tickets $30 Call for Single ticket prices PLAYMAKERS THEATRE Covington, Louisiana Do not pass GO! Please go to their web site now! http://www.playmakersinc.com/ They're raffling the 4 poster bed used in the coming production of BORN YESTERDAY. See web site for all details regarding Raffle, Play Dates and what's up at Playmakers this Summer. Workshops `n' Plays `n'
Musicals … Oh MY! Bed and Breakfast's couldn't be quainter than those that abound-around-abouts this neck of our Louisiana woods. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM Slidell Little Theatre 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell LA. (less than an hours drive) 1-985-641-0324. 8p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through May 17. May 11 at 4 p.m. Tickets:$15, $8 for children EARL LONG IN PURGATORY. Play by Jason Berry. Back for a limited run Opens May 9th. John McConnel IS Earl Long! McConnel's a shoo in to play Ignatius Reilly in A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES the Pulitzer Prize Novel by New Orleanian John Kennedy Toole, deceased. My wife was in the same grade with him in their High School in New Orleans … no wonder she calls me a dunce, sometimes … all the time!
A WALK IN THE WOODS nothing could be finer than dinner and a play in a Louisiana Plantation … namely, Oak Alley Plantation, 3645 Highway 18, Vacherie, La. 1-800-442-5539/1-225-265-2151. Plays Saturdays through May24 and 1:30 on Sundays through May 25th $25-35. LA REVUE in Fleur de Lis Theatre, 317 Bourbon St. above Rick's (yeah, sweetheart, we got a Rick's too!) A Crazy Horse Style Parisian revue. Plays Tuesdays through Saturdays at 9 p.m. Tickets $60, $45, $35.
1-504-529-7469. MR. And MRS. HOLLYWOOD at the Southern Repertory Theatre, Canal Place, on Yee old Canal Street, New Orleans. 1-504-835-6002 Married movie stars at the Oscars…both nominated, on view and on each other's nerves. $20, $15 Seniors Part of Southern's New Play's Festival. Now that's what we call a potpourri! … a mélange … a Variety! Ooops, forgot about the upcoming BIG EASY AWARDS tba. OHH…TO BE NOMINATED! For more monthly articles and the plays of Steve Esquerré, check the Archives. © 2003 Steve&Lucille Esquerré
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