Greater Tuna

Description

Two performers who are part actor and part quick-change artist dominate the hilarious – and often strange – activity that comprises a typical day in Tuna, Texas, the Lone Star State’s “third-smallest city”.

In fact, it takes a team of lightning-fast “dressers” backstage to help create the twenty-odd oddballs who represent the population of the entire Greater Tuna Area – men, women, children, animals and space aliens. Some quick-changes occur in fewer than four seconds.

Greater Tuna opens with the morning news report from the low-power radio station (275 watts) hosted by two slow-talking broadcast celebrities – Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie – who keep the town up-to-date on Tuna’s late-breaking news. The play then quick-changes to all the various news scenes and crime scenes around town.

This national tour production is as close to perfect as you might imagine. Ed Howard, who directed Greater Tuna on Broadway and is one of the three writers of the comedy, directs this touring production.

Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard wrote Greater Tuna in Austin in 1981 where it became a cult favorite before moving to the famous Alley Theatre in Houston then to the Kennedy Center and finally an extended run at Circle In The Square in New York. Since then, the trio has written popular sequels: A Tuna Christmas and Red, White and Tuna. Last summer, the fourth play in the Tuna canon opened in Galveston: Tuna Does Vegas.

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Link

http://www.greatertuna.com

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831.622.0100