Just a little while ago I told you about auditions for Miranda Branson Branson Miranda. Now the play, by Backseat Sandbar writer Hank Willenbrink, is all grown and ready for its debut. The show opens next Thursday night, May 14, at Walden Theater and I’ve got two pairs of tickets to give away. Winners can choose any of the dates of the show to use their free tickets except May 14 and 23. Got that?
OK to enter to win drop a comment or send me an email telling me the best play you’ve ever seen and where you saw it. I’ll choose two winners at random from all the entries I receive by 10PM Friday May 8, 2009.
The Necessary Theatre presents MIRANDA BRANSON BRANSON MIRANDA, a world premiere by Louisville’s own Hank Willenbrink. Five years ago Miranda’s father, the Magician, made her mother disappear…or did he? Now Miranda is haunted by the two women her father sawed in half…nightly…who claim to be her Mother. Her best friend is horning in on her indie rock boyfriend, and the truth won’t set her free.To reconnect with her mother, Miranda has to travel to Branson, Missouri–the family-friendly Las Vegas: home of Yakov Smirnoff, Shoji Tabuchi, Table Rock Lake, and a gigantic Titanic museum that is a replica of the ill-fated luxury liner. MIRANDA BRANSON BRANSON MIRANDA is a surreal, hilarious comic drama about the perils of growing up, the anxieties of youth, the liberation of leaving home, and what happens when what you find isn’t what you thought it was.
Featuring TNT Artistic Director Tad Chitwood and veterans Cara Hicks, and Hallie Kirk, MIRANDA BRANSON BRANSON MIRANDA also showcases some of Louisville’s up and coming theater artists including Madeline Marchal, Aaron Craker, Jane Mattingly, and Madeleine Miller. The production will be directed by the author. Call (502) 454-4370 for reservations. Please note that credit cards can not be accepted for payment.
May 14 – 16 & 21 – 23 at 8pm
Walden Theatre, 1123 Payne St.
$10
May 6th, 2009 at 10:05 am
The best play I have ever seen was the preschool Christmas pageant last year at my son’s school – it was the best because he was in it (and I don’t care how kitsch that sounds!). And if I won the tickets I would use them on the 15th to celebrate my 30th birthday!
May 7th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I saw Death of a Saleman at Actors’ many moons ago. Since that’s the only play I remember seeing, that has to be the best! It was also quite a good production, I was depressed after seeing it. Poor Willy! If I win, I’m using them to take my wife out to the theater, which I don’t get to do nearly often enough.