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Presale for "Tuna Does Vegas"
Published: 2/8/2010 5:37 PM
Last Modified: 2/8/2010 5:37 PM

Celebrity Attractions is bringing "Tuna Does Vegas," the fourth -- and newest -- tale of those colorful denizens of the third smallest town in the Lone Star State, to the Tulsa PAC March 9-11 for four shows only.

A special internet-only presale is taking place through midnight Wednesday -- just go to the Tulsaworld.com/mytix website, find the "Tuna Does Vegas" entry, and when you are asked for the Coupon Code to buy tickets, type in the word "ROLL."

Bartlesville native Joe Sears and fellow writer-actor Jaston Williams dreamed up Tuna, Texas, as a party gig while both were working with theater companies in Texas. With director Ed Howard, they developed the skit into the play "Greater Tuna," with Sears and Williams performing all 20-odd characters.

They since expanded the "Tuna-verse" to include "A Tuna Christmas" (which earned Sears a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor when it played Broadway in 1994) and "Red, White and Tuna."

The latest installation begins with Arless Struvie and Bertha Bumiller deciding to renew their relatively recent wedding vows in Sin City, and ends up with most of the population of Tuna, Texas, heading out to the land of neon and casinos.

It also features a few new characters, including a security guard known as Shot and a snakeskin-muumuu wearing hotel manager named Anna Conda.

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James D. Watts Jr. has lived in Oklahoma for most his life, even though he still has people saying to him, "Don't sound like you're from around these parts." A University of Oklahoma Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Watts has received the Governor Arts Award, Harwelden Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Beth Macklin Award for his writing. Before coming to the Tulsa World, Watts worked for the Tulsa Tribune.

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