Our next PT Shorts program:

Comic Fireworks!

Classic American Comedy Routines

Skits made famous by Burns & Allen,

Abbott & Costello, the Marx Brothers, and many others.

Saturday, July 4th at 7:30 pm

Note different location: City Council Chambers

at City Hall, Water & Madison Streets.

PT Shorts ignites “Comic Fireworks”

Classic comedy routines celebrated at City Hall on the Fourth of July

Everyone is invited to celebrate the Fourth with bursts of laughter at the next PT Shorts program “Comic Fireworks.”  Classic American comedy routines made famous by Burns & Allen, Abbott & Costello, The Marx Brothers, George Carlin and others will be performed on Saturday, July 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall.

The hour-long presentation is free, and gives everyone time to attend their favorite fireworks display afterward.

In preparing the program, director David Schroeder sought out comic “chestnuts” that never grow old, and mixed in a few contemporary voices for the sake of variety. Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on First?” is joined by the Marx Brothers’ contract-signing routine from “A Night at the Opera,” the boy-girl routine with which George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted at The Palace Theatre in New York, and George Carlin’s perceptive comparisons between the games of football and baseball.

Lesser-known gems include a satire of etiquette books by Mark Twain, the eccentric comedian Lord Buckley’s “beatnik” translation of Marc Antony’s funeral oration, and Doodles Weaver’s clumsy attempt to sing “The Man on the Flying Trapeze.”

David Schroeder to known to local audiences as the announcer for the “Golden Age Radio Christmas” programs at Key City Public Theatre, and was last seen in the role of Elwood P. Dowd for the WordPlay reading of “Harvey.” Schroeder will be joined in this program by readers Lawrason Driscoll and Diane Roberts.

Driscoll is familiar to KCPT theatergoers for many performances, most recently appearing as grandfather Karl in “The Red Bike” at this spring’s Playwrights’ Festival. He also directed last year’s comedy “Where’s My Money?”

Roberts most recently helped give a benefit reading of “Love Letters” at Northwind Arts Center, and has appeared in many KCPT productions and “Ed Zeppelin” reviews at The Upstage restaurant over the years.

This month, PT Shorts is being held in the council chambers of City Hall at Water and Madison streets in Port Townsend. A disability-accessible elevator is located on the Madison Street side of the building.

Port Townsend (PT) Shorts is an ongoing free program of short readings of literary works by local actors produced by Key City Public Theatre and sponsored by the Port Townsend Arts Commission. Catch PT Shorts during Gallery Walk on the first Saturday of every month.
 

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If you would like additional information about our PT Shorts program or to find out about ways in which you can participate or sponsor this free community program, please contact our PT Shorts Program Administrator, Catherine McNabb.

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