Who is Kevin Lively? Oh yes, go see The Tavern - By N.L. Belardes
Kevin Lively is just way too serious. He makes serious plays, talks in a deep sweeping serious voice that often ignores my lame jokes, and seriously, he loves to have fun in his stage productions. Yes, he’s just way too serious about you having a good time.
Just who is Lively? An actor? A director? A guy with a vision? Comedian turned cranky stage director? Perhaps he’s just Meathead’s buddy. You know Meathead on KRAB? He seems involved with all of Lively’s wacky productions and out-of-the box humor and light-hearted puns and gimmicks. Meathead is even involved in Lively’s latest production: The Tavern by George Cohan.
Yes, I’m kidding about Lively being too serious. Lively is lively.
But when it’s showtime, Lively is just as lost in the darkness as me. Onstage, it’s about the people who bring the show to life. Well, except for those who aren’t in the show who create sound effects and tinker on a piano to accompany one of the funnest shows this year. The sound effects girls in fact were hilarious. They laughed harder than anyone, completely tickled at all the antics on stage: the funny voices, the keystone antics, the costumes, and lack thereof.
The Tavern starts tonight (Friday) and is billed as a “vastly amusing and complicated series of misunderstandings.” For only $8-10 you’ll see one of the best packaged shows of the year. There’s a darling video intro, sound effects that will keep you laughing, and slapstick humor in characters all wanting to know who the vagabond, Ivan, really is. Yes, Ivan is an intellectual drifter in the old west, and he plots along with the plot in mysterious ways that I just can’t reveal.
I went down to the Bakersfield Community Theatre last night and caught the last dress rehearsal. Matildakay was in the house, fresh from a car wreck, and we just plain had a great time laughing at the show. I loved the costumes, the ‘over’ acting and the very controversial ‘black’ sheriff.
Do yourself a favor and go watch The Tavern. I had more fun than at the much bigger production of Bakersfield’s overly modernized rendition of West Side Story…
Click for showtimes.
Just who is Lively? An actor? A director? A guy with a vision? Comedian turned cranky stage director? Perhaps he’s just Meathead’s buddy. You know Meathead on KRAB? He seems involved with all of Lively’s wacky productions and out-of-the box humor and light-hearted puns and gimmicks. Meathead is even involved in Lively’s latest production: The Tavern by George Cohan.
Yes, I’m kidding about Lively being too serious. Lively is lively.
But when it’s showtime, Lively is just as lost in the darkness as me. Onstage, it’s about the people who bring the show to life. Well, except for those who aren’t in the show who create sound effects and tinker on a piano to accompany one of the funnest shows this year. The sound effects girls in fact were hilarious. They laughed harder than anyone, completely tickled at all the antics on stage: the funny voices, the keystone antics, the costumes, and lack thereof.
The Tavern starts tonight (Friday) and is billed as a “vastly amusing and complicated series of misunderstandings.” For only $8-10 you’ll see one of the best packaged shows of the year. There’s a darling video intro, sound effects that will keep you laughing, and slapstick humor in characters all wanting to know who the vagabond, Ivan, really is. Yes, Ivan is an intellectual drifter in the old west, and he plots along with the plot in mysterious ways that I just can’t reveal.
I went down to the Bakersfield Community Theatre last night and caught the last dress rehearsal. Matildakay was in the house, fresh from a car wreck, and we just plain had a great time laughing at the show. I loved the costumes, the ‘over’ acting and the very controversial ‘black’ sheriff.
Do yourself a favor and go watch The Tavern. I had more fun than at the much bigger production of Bakersfield’s overly modernized rendition of West Side Story…
Click for showtimes.
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Friday, February 17, 2006.
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Thanks again for coming - and awesome that even the "Fresh from the Car Wreck" Matilda Kay made her way into the house...
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