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Of Mirth and Mischief

Posted at 10:00 AM on December 8, 2011 by The Current (2 Comments)


Playwright and storyteller, Kevin Kling, is bringing his childhood tales to The Fitzgerald Theater December 16-18 for a holiday play called Of Mirth and Mischief, highlighting Kling's recollections as a four-year-old boy in the hospital and the characters and stories he constructed in his imagination during the long stay.


The play has a great hook: Steve Kramer of '80s group The Wallets wrote all new original music for the production and brought in artists like Haley Bonar, James Diers, Jennifer Armour, and Aby Wolf to help.


You can download the entire soundtrack here ahead of time and get tickets while you're at it so you can hear the tracks in their live forms.


Comments (2)

Just saw it. Basically a disappointing mess. No hook to draw me in, a bunch of disjointed musical numbers with no glue to turn them into any sort for coherent whole. Spend your holiday hours elsewhere. I can't say the whole thing was bad, though, I slept through about 15 minutes of the second act. Maybe that part was good.

Posted by kirby | December 18, 2011 6:49 PM

Did we see the same show?
The glue was the STORY - Kevin's expansive, childhood-Christmas-in-the-Hospital range of tales for the first half...and a big, fat fairy tale taking up the second act; the likes of which I've never heard before - with musical numbers in-between (See blog above for those details - every one a winner, and source of MP3 holiday joy).

I found it cohesive enough - with both tales wrapping around each other, and the entire show. Kirby, I fail to find what you considered sucky here; take a nap before the show next time.

Posted by Kay Kirscht | December 21, 2011 9:21 AM

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