The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged)
The Reduced Shakespeare Company's yuletide comedy show takes on the holiday season. Forced to perform the entire Universalist Church Multicultural Interfaith Variety Show and Christmas Pageant, since the performers got snowed out. Michael Faulkner, Mick Orfe, and Dustin Sullivan do skits ranging from the pagan roots of Christmas to phoning an "out-sourced Santa" named Sanjay Claus. Some bits are surefire (a poem about air travel during the holidays, based on "T'was the Night Before Christmas"; a hilarious ballet). But the evening needs abridgement. Unlike previous works, this opening night had too much filler, too much between-bit palaver, as if it began as a 90-minute piece they stretched like taffy to two full acts. And they must push the comedy harder than need be.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, December 23, 2012
Hours
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 8pm |