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Ribisi/ Steve Zahn film version from the mid-
'90s and the implication of that cast (along with
Kieran Culkin in a recent Off-Broadway revival)
should serve as a reliable guide to the brand
of all-too-familiar, going-nowhere misanthropy
that is the play's stock in trade. The Town and
Gown Players present the lost-generation grit
of SubUrbia a<; a Second Stage production di
rected by Michael Kennedy. Athens Community
Theatre on Friday, Apr. 27 and Saturday, Apr. 28
at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Apr. 29 at 2 p.m. Tickets
are only $5 apiece. For more information, call
706-208-T0WN.
Murder Most Foul: Capping a year in which
the impromptu inhabitants of our very own
Commedia deU'Arte village have taken their
daughters to work, simultaneously spoofed
quantum physics and fantastical C.S. Lewis epic
aF gories, and emerged virtually unscathed from
despite the timeless Christian parables the
sketch-like script enacts, the show can often
seem dated. The enterprising young actors at
Athens Academy decided to remedy this for their
upcoming production of the show by ditching the
show's "hippyclown" tradition and applying an
urban take on the classic musical. Their version
of Godspell plays at the Academy's Presentation
Hall, Thursday, Apr. 26-Saturday, Apr. 28 at 7:30
p.m. Donations at the door will go to Project
Pallam, so go to find out what that's all about.
Call 706-433-2484 for further details.
Put on a Happy Face: Full disclosure: your man
at the Athens drama desk had his first top-billed
role as Albert in a production of the 1961 Tony
winner for best musical. Bye Bye Birdie, and still
regularly finds himself waking up annoyingly
humming the song that titles this section to
anyone who'll listen. With its infectious mix of
Forest Theater of Pure Form
the out-wrenching psychological terror borne
of turkeys on a plane running a-gobbling-mok,
I Commedianti Georgiani's last production of
the season will serve as a respite for serene
contemplation... of murder! Though, as always,
the details remain shrouded behind a mask of
mystery, this much is clear: a duo of denizens is
discovered having fled this mortal coil in untime
ly and unlonged-for fashion. Clues emerge, con
verge and then, cryptically, diverge. Accusations
and recriminations furiously fly. But will a
propbox full of monocles, magnifying glasses
and Sherlock Holmes hats be enough to help
Dottore, Pantalone, Arlecchino and the rest of
the investigatory lot succeed in piecing together
the puzzle, getting to the bottom of things, and
snagging a could-be killer? See "Whodunnit?:
A Commurder" in the UGA Fine Arts Building
Cellar Theatre on Monday, Apr. 30 at 8 p.m. to
find out. Admission is as always, perhaps crimi
nally, free. See www.drama.uga.edu.
Prodigal Sons: In the summer of 1972, "Day by
Day," an uplifting encapsulation of the parable
of the servant and the master that precedes it
in Godspetl, nearly breached the Billboard Top
Ten. That same year, a Toronto production of
the show cast Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Martin
Short and Andrea Martin before the influential
comedy-show SCTV they would help create was
even a flicker in someone's imagination. Sadly,
classic show-stopping choral numbers and early-
pop inflected tunes, settle-down love story, and
fond recollection of the early Ed Sullivan days of
rock and roll, the show remains a standard of the
high school theatre circuit. The combined Fine
Arts Departments of Oconee and North Oconee
High Schools will stage a concert rendition of
Bye Bye Birdie at the Oconee County Civic
Center on Friday, Apr. 27 and Saturday, Apr. 28
at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Apr. 29 at 2 p.m. Call 706-
769-3902. for more info.
Blow Me Down: The visually-delightful, vaude
ville spectacle that is Fred Garbo's Inflatable
Theater Company plays at UGA's Fine Arts
Theatre on Saturday, Apr. 28. Check the box in
the Out There! section for further details.
You Were Meant for the Stage: Precocious
youngsters unsnap your Spongebob dayplanners. ^
Athens Little Playhouse will be holding audi
tions for the junior version of Meredith Wilson's
Tony-winning Music Man at the group's Alps
Village shopping center home base on May 7
and 8 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The production
will play the third weekend in July. Call intrepid
youth theatre mastermind Gloria Sams at 706-
208-1036 or visit www.athenslittleplayhouse.org
for further info.
Brandon Waddell
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