“Run for Your Wife”: Ray Cooney brings us hilarious hijinks with the story of John Smith, a London cab driver who happens to be married to Mary and Barbara.
John had kept this pretense going by carefully juggling a precise schedule. But that’s disrupted when Smith is mugged. To cover his tracks, John tells a lie that turns into mayhem — with the help of his not-so-bright neighbor Stanley. One lie leads to another, and another and the game is on. Mix in a determined cop, a gay dressmaker, dress-stealing nuns and two gallons of running paint and you have the recipe for some side-splitting humor.
“Run for Your Wife” opens at 8 tonight with shows at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through May 30 at the Stillaguamish Grange at the Stanwood-Camano Island Fairgrounds, 6521 Pioneer Highway, Stanwood.
This Camwood Players’ production comes with special shows.
An English tea will be served during the 3 p.m. matinee Sunday for Mother’s Day featuring scones, cakes, sandwiches and other treats served at decorated tables with antique china. Two dinner theater shows are also being offered starting at 7 p.m. May 16 and May 30.
Tickets are $12 for the show only, $25 for dinner and the show and $15 for the Mother’s Day matinee. Tickets can be bought at Snow Goose Bookstore, 8616 271st St. NW, Stanwood; by calling 360-629-4494; or online at www.camwoodplayers.com.
“Grease”: With former “American Idol” winner Taylor Hicks playing Teen Angel, “Grease” is rocking across the country from Broadway bringing its poodle skirts, drive-ins, T-birds and music from the ’50s to Seattle.
“Grease” showcases the unlikely love story of “bad boy” Danny and “the girl next door” Sandy against a backdrop of favorite songs such as “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightning” and “We Go Together” as well as songs from the hit movie like “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and “You’re the One That I Want.”
“Grease” opens at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., Seattle. Shows are at various times through May 30. Tickets are $29 to $83. Call 206-625-1900, 888-584-4849 or go to www.5thavenue.org.
“Guys &Dolls”: This Frank Loesser classic never ceases to please with its awesome choreography, timeless tunes and oddball humor set against the heyday of Times Square in 1947 when a group of gamblers meet up with a group of missionaries.
The story has Nathan Detroit engaged for 14 years to Hot Box dancer Adelaide. Nathan needs to raise some money to find a spot for his craps game and to buy a present for Adelaide. When he hears big gambler Sky Masterson is in town, Nathan decides to make a bet with Sky to raise the money he needs — he bets Sky can’t get Sarah Brown, the head of the Save-A-Soul Mission, to go with him on a trip to Havana. Sarah resists at first, but eventually relents and the two travel to Cuba. They both wind up falling for each other. When they return to New York, Sky wins the souls of a group of gamblers and they show up as promised to Sarah’s mission, providing Sarah the proof of Sky’s love that she needs to marry him.
“Guys and Dolls” opens at 8 tonight at Seattle Musical Theatre, 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle. Shows are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays and 7:30 p.m. May 21 through 24. Tickets range between $25 and $35. Call 206-363-2809 or go to www.seattlemusicaltheatre.org.
“A Wedding Story”: The story focuses on Evelyn and Peter who a have fresh, funny, beautiful marriage that is sorely tested when Evelyn develops Alzheimer’s. Then, their daughter Sally falls in love with another woman at a wedding reception. Now everyone is forced to confront what marriage means. The show has a taste of bittersweet comedy and everyone’s favorite movie, “Casablanca.”
“A Wedding Story” begins with previews starting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday with shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through June 7 at Seattle Public Theatre, 7312 W. Greenlake Drive N., Seattle. Tickets are $15 to $25. Call 206-524-1300 or go to www.seattlepublictheater.org.
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