Onstage: Watch a couple’s life unfold over 50 years
Published 12:57 pm Thursday, February 28, 2008
Camwood Players opens its winter show, “I Do! I Do!” at 8 tonight in Stanwood.
The popular musical, with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, spans 50 years of joy and sorrow in the marriage of Agnes and Michael Snow. Familiar songs include “My Cup Runneth Over.”
Ray Riches and Nancy Pates-Riches star as Michael and Agnes. Piano accompaniment is provided by Patricia Madden.
Shows are weekends through March 21.
Edge of the World: “Sez She!” by renowned author Jane Martin is on stage at Edge of the World Theatre in Edmonds.
Fresh from its smash run at the Shubert Theatre in Minneapolis, “Sez She!” is actually 40 plays in one, performed by five actresses playing more than 60 characters at breakneck speed.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune said of the show, “Enormously entertaining, more like a Disney World ride aimed at adults. Lean back, take a deep breath and grasp the handrail firmly.” It is not recommended for small children.
“Sweatproof!”: Seattle’s second annual solo performance theater festival opens Saturday with “7 Sins,” a collection of true, fast, funny stories from the life of writer and comedian James Judd. It chronicles his early ambition to win his fifth-grade book report competition with “My Search for Patty Hearst,” and his first job when his working mother paid him to watch “The Young and the Restless” and then re-enact it for her.
Judd relives his varied careers as a forgotten employee of AT&T, where he did nothing for a year, an even shorter-lived career as a dot.com journalist (which led to an insane night with five Chinese billionaires in a Chinese bordello) and as an underprepared criminal defense attorney representing violent teenage girls, as well as many more strange and always funny stories.
“Sweatproof!” is dedicated to presenting fearless, cutting-edge, diverse performances by solo theater artists.
“7 Sins” will be followed by shows through March 16 featuring the talents of Andrew Connor (“Boom,” “Boat Load”), Suzanne Morrison (“Yoga Bitch”), Michelle Todd (“Deep Fried Curried Perogies”), Jayson McDonald (“Giant Invisible Robot”), Aaron LaPlante (“Twirling”) and Unicycle Collective (“MonoLodge 4”). See www.theatreoffjackson.org/spf2.html for show dates.
“The Key”: Skagit Valley College Department of Theatre presents “THE KEY: Re-visioning Bluebeard!” a new play written and directed by Drue Robinson.
The original story of Bluebeard, as written by Charles Perrault and first published in 1698, is believed to have been based on the first well-known serial killer, Gilles de Rais, a 15th-century nobleman. Extracting Bluebeard’s hidden messages and plumbing the depths of this ancient bloody story, Robinson, known mostly for her work as the founder and director of the Bellingham Children’s Theatre, dares to take her adult audience inward; to a place of personal reckoning.
“The Key” opens Thursday and runs through April 5.
Where to see it
“I Do! I Do!”: opens at 8 tonight, Stillaguamish Grange, 6521 Pioneer Highway, Stanwood. 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through March 21, plus matinees at 3 p.m. March 9 and 16. Tickets $15, at Snow Goose Bookstore in Stanwood.
“Sez She!”: 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, through March 22, Edge of the World Theatre, 9667 Firdale Ave., Edmonds. $22, $19 senior, 206-542-7529.
“7 Sins”: 8 p.m. Saturday, Theatre Off Jackson, 409 Seventh Ave. S., Seattle. $15, www.brownpapertickets.com, $45 for full “Sweatproof!” festival pass. Information: www.theatreoffjackson.org.
“The Key”: Opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Phillip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Shows through March 16 there, then April 3-5 at Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave., Bellingham. $12, $8 seniors or students (with ID); 360-734-9999.
