Just 5 more days until the First Preview of the Practical Theatre Company’s “Ho-Ho-Holiday Revue!” The fun is just about to begin! https://www.tickettailor.com/events/practicaltheatre
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The Holiday Fun starts this Week!
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It’s a HO-HO-HOLIDAY REVUE! Practical Theatre Fun at Studio5 in Evanston!
Tickets are now on sale for The Practical Theatre Company’s latest comedy revue — another in a series of nearly-annual holiday presentations. For tickets, click here. Performances at Studio5 run from Dec. 28 to 31 and Jan. 4 to 6.
The Practical Theatre’s “Ho-Ho-Holiday Revue” is a throwback to the TV variety shows of the 1960s and early ’70s, featuring sketch comedy, improvisation, stand-up comedy, and music in an evening of sophisticated adult fun. Tickets range from $30 to $45, and seats for the New Year’s Eve show range from $45 to $55.
The show features a mix of comedy sketches, original satirical songs, and holiday standards presented like you’ve never heard them before – and will touch on everything from pickle-ball mania and the current political scene to mother-daughter relationships, the Greek gods, the Titan submersible disaster, the Supreme Court, “thoughts and prayers,” Judge Judy vs. Donald Trump, and select, classic PTC sketches. Plus, lots and lots of upbeat, soulful, holiday music that will make it hard to resist dancing in the aisles.
Alcoholic beverages are available for purchase at all shows.
The show stars Barrosse, his wife and fellow PTC member Victoria Zielinski, and screenwriter and fellow Northwestern alum Dana Olsen. The cast will be backed by the jazz quintet, The Studio5 All-Stars, led by the PTC’s longtime musical director Steve Rashid. Adding to the fun are blues and soul vocalist Ms. Maura and veteran stand-up comedian Emilia Barrosse, whose TV writing credits include HBO’s “VEEP” and TruTV’s “Tacoma F.D.”
It’s a Ho-Ho-Holiday time, folks!
THE PRACTICAL THEATRE PRESENTS A “BIG HOLIDAY BAG O’ FUN!”
1980 L to R: Jane Muller, Herb Metzler, John Goodrich, Dave Silberger, Paul Barrosse & Brad Hall
In the summer of 1980, The Practical Theatre opened it’s first improvisational comedy revue — “Bag O’ Fun”— at The Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston.
Now, four decades later, The PTC returns to Evanston for a concert celebration of classic Practical comedy – featuring grown-up laughs, great live music – anda well-stocked bar!
Tickets available at: Studio5 website. Or via Direct Ticket link,
Playing their third holiday run at Studio5 in three years, writer-performers Victoria Zielinski, Paul Barrosse and Dana Olsen anchor a “Big Holiday Bag O’ Fun”– with music by jazz maestro Steve Rashid and his Studio5 All-Stars.
Saturday Night Live veteran Gary Kroeger and Evanston’s own Rockin’ Ronny Crawford set the beat for a bright young supporting cast: recording artist Eva B. Ross, Giggle Break’s Daniel Rashid, VEEP writer and stand-up comic Emilia Barrosse — and newcomer Reilly Anspaugh!
“Big Holiday Bag O’ Fun” combines classic Practical Theatre comedy sketches, newsworthy satire, and music better than you can imagine — with Don Stiernberg on every stringed instrument known to man, and Rockin’ Ronny Crawford on all things percussion.
Come and party before the show, sipping cocktails and anticipating the fun in the warmth and comfort of the North Shore’s most intimate performance venue — located at Dempster & Dodge in Evanston.Shows run December 28-31.
There’s a cash bar for all shows. Doors open for cocktails at 7:30. Showtime is 8:00. Except, that is, for New Year’s. The New Year’s Eve show starts at 9:00.
It’s gonna be a “Big Holiday Bag O’ Fun”.
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