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Preview of a Review: "The Great American Trailer Park Musical"
Published: 5/20/2011 2:05 PM
Last Modified: 5/20/2011 2:05 PM

Thursday night's opening performance of "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" was sold out -- and tickets have become so scarce for the remaining shows this weekend that Playhouse Tulsa has added an additional performance, 2 p.m. Saturday.

The World's complete review will appear in Saturday's paper, but here's a bit of it:

Imagine the result of crossing “The Rocky Horror Show” with “The Jerry Springer Show,” and you have the basic idea behind “The Great American Trailer Park Musical.”
This show by David Nehls and Betsy Kelso has all the outrageous, and decidedly R-rated, humor of the former, as it gleefully skewers all the stereotypes about the subject matter, and target audiences, of the latter.
And “The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” which Playhouse Tulsa opened Thursday night before a sold-out audience at the Tulsa PAC, is funnier than either “Rocky Horror” or “Jerry Springer” could ever hope to be — in large part because for all the cheerful vulgarity and sordid activity on display, there is at the center of this show a very human heart.
Not a literal human heart, mind you — although given what goes on in this show, one might jump to that conclusion.

For tickets: 918-596-7111, tulsaworld.com/mytix.



Reader Comments 1 Total
Jayhawk Ken (last year)
I'm eager for the full monty review, but you have already perfectly captured the essence of what I witnessed with you Thursday night. Judging by how captivated and pleased the audience was, hundreds more tickets could be sold by word-of-mouth through them, if the capacity was there. What a grandly executed show of a rib-tickling theme held together, as you've noted, with a human heart. If we could go again, we would!
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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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