Nationally renowned humor writer Patrick F. McManus has done it again….become poor! And this time he’s written a new play about it for his even poorer and indentured actor, Tim Behrens. This will be the first new play Pat has written for Tim in more than 12 years, and world needs it!
Poor Again…Dagnabbit is playing for one night only on Saturday, January 23, 8 p.m. in the Colonial Theater. Tickets are $28 and available by calling 522-0471 or stopping by the Idaho Falls Arts Council box office at 498 A Street M-F 11-5:00 pm/ Sat. 10-4:00 pm.
“The worldwide recession continues to increase the spread of laughlessness across the land,” says Behrens, “and we aim to do our part to combat this situation.” Both author and actor guarantee laughs as they describe Pat’s childhood of poverty (he grew up in rural Idaho), his confrontations with wolves at the door, his inspired descriptions of the Great Depression’s impacts on everything from cars to maggot farming, from school assignments to dating. Discover how to make, and inventively present, poverty foods like blood sausage, head cheese and turkey gravy. And how to build a car from spare parts.
Pat’s account of his current situation…once again falling from success to poverty…culminates in a conversation with Old Ed, Pat’s 100 year-old friend, who puts love and life into perspective…if he can stay awake long enough.
McManus, one of the most popular humor writers in the country, has penned 21 titles which have sold more than 6 million copies. Five of his short humor collections have made the top 10 of the NY Times Bestseller’s list. His five one-man shows, all performed by Behrens, have played to more than 400,000 people in 21 states.
The Billings Gazette said: “Behrens doing McManus is like a cross between Mark Twain and Bill Cosby.” The late actor Jack Lemmon said: “Tim relishes in knocking the audiences out with laughter; see this show!” and the Spokane, WA, Spokesman Review once worried that “paramedics would have to be called in people were laughing so hard.”
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