A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com  




PLAY TWO OF A FOUR SEASON SCHEDULE....THESE PRODUCTIONS RUN WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY...IN JULY........SHREK GOES IN AUGUST.....ARSENIC AND OLD LACE.... IN SEPTEMBER....3 WEEKEND RUNS


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YOU CAN'T GO WRONG....OUTDOOR SUMMER THEATRE 22 MILES FROM THE LAS VEGAS STRIP..WEST CHARLESTON...ITS COOL..ITS CLEAN ...ITS SAFE AND EVERYONE  IS ALWAYS NICE.


THE "FORUM"....A TRIED AND TRUE PRODUCTION....SECOND RUN HERE....I DON'T REMEMBER HOW IT WENT IN 1999....THE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL IN CEDAR CITY DID THIS A DECADE OR SO AGO WITH FOUNDING FATHER FRED ADAMS PLAYING A LEAD ROLE....ZERO MOSTEL HAD THE LEAD IN THE MOVIE IN 1966 WITH BUSTER KEATON....MICHAEL CRAWFORD AND PHIL SILVERS....HELL OF A LINEUP THERE...RICHARD LESTER THE DIRECTOR THEIR....HERE TIM BENNETT CHOREOGRAPHED AND DIRECTED...IT HAD SOME NICE TOUCHES AND SOME OF THE EXPECTED USUAL COMEDAY MAYHEM.


BRUCE BLOCK....PRETTY MUCH A NATIONAL NAME....COMEDIAN...MAGICIAN....TV  PERFORMER HAD THE LEAD AS PHOLOGUS....ITS A LOAD...LOTS OF LINES  .....SOME NOT EASY...LOTS OF TIMING AND MOVEMENT....I HAVE SEEN BRUCE BEFORE AND WAS PARTIAL TO HIM BEFORE "FORUM" SO I LIKED HIM AND HIS WORK HERE...THINK HE CAN BE EVERY BETTER AND TIGHTER...THURSDAY JUST THE SECOND RUN THROUGH HERE.


YOU WILL SEE EVERYTHING IF YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH....JOHN WENNSTROM WHO HIRED ME TO A 16 YEAR JOB HERE PLAYED LYCUS...(PRETTY MUCH A ROMAN  PIMP)...HAVE ALWAYS LIKED JOHN.


LOTS OF COMEDY...LOCALE INUENDOS AND JUST PLANE NONESENSE.


NO CREDITS IN THE PROGRAM FOR THE SONGS....BECAUSE WHOEVER PLAYED THE SINGING SOLDIER  I THINK MILES GLORIOSUS......(PLAYED....I THINK BY CARNELL JOHNSON)....TRULY A TREAT HIMSELF...I THOUGHT THE STAR OF THE SHOW AND I WOULD LOVED TO HAVE PICKED OUT A DOZEN SONGS I LIKED AND HAVE HIM SING THEM.....SALUTE !


THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THIS CONTINUING JEWEL OF LAS VEGAS...LOTS OF EFFORT...VOLUNTEERS AND PROFESSIONALS MAKE IT GO....I AM GOING AGAIN.


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