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...Petticoat Junction soundtrack picks up steam, the lights go up on a barren set featuring a homey dinette and two good ole' boys dressed for an episode of Hee-Haw, getting ready to broadcast the morning news over Greater Tuna's airwaves. And among the items of interest, we are informed that beef is up, pork is down, and tropical rainstorm Luther is headed directly our way just in time for rehearsals of My Fair Lady set in Polynesia at Greater Tuna High...
Welcome to Tuna, Texas. Population: slow...
...what's a small town with a name like Tuna doing so far from home? Settling in for a six week run at the Charles Playhouse, the last leg of its national tour. Don't let the overalls and twangy y'all's fool you. For not having quite "made it on the map" yet, Greater Tuna, the fictitious name of Texas' third smallest town, comes to Boston with an impressive record of big-time successes, including six sold out weeks at the Kennedy Center, a year and a half in New York, and most recently, its debut...
...fact, the intimate setting of the Charles Playhouse perfectly accommodates the style of anecdotal confessions and informal sketches in which the story of a day in the life of Tuna is told. Sears and Williams, who also co-wrote the two-man show with director Ed Howard, conjure up the local color with their hilarious sketches: there's Bertha Bumiller, head of the local Smut-Snatching Society, in her green poly suit and orange bouffant wig; Petie Fiske, the woebegone rep from the Greater Tuna Humane Society and his homeless ducks; the toad-voiced chainsmoking Deedee Snavelly; the Rev. Spikes...
...hilariously original satire on the closed-in sensibilities of Tuna's God-fearing Christians doesn't miss any of the familiar small town cliches: bigotry, hypocrisy, xenophobia, catty gossip, and the usual repressed instincts lurking under propriety. Even death in this tumbleweed town is a cause for excitement. Pearl Burris, the canincidal matron with a taste for strychnine stands in the funeral home, admiring the "lovely-looking corpse" of Judge Buckner, her long-ago Romeo, found dead in a Dale Evans one-piece swimsuit. Meanwhile, the latest word from Nadine's mother is that Nadine has run away again...