ABQ Theatre Guild June 2010 Calendar Listings

Albuquerque Theatre Guild announces June 2010 Performance Calendar. More theatrical performances take place every weekend here in Albuquerque than in any other U.S. city of its size.

Thru June 13 | Fridays and Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 2. Thursday, June 10 at 8

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson. This happy go lucky view of small town vice and statewide political side-stepping recounts the good times and the demise of the Chicken Ranch, known since the 1850s as one of the better pleasure palaces in all of Texas. Governors, senators, mayors and even victorious college football teams frequent Miss Mona's cozy bordello until that puritan nemesis Watchdog focuses his television cameras and his righteous indignation on the institution. Info: Albuquerque Little Theatre, 224 San Pasquale SW, 242-4750, http://www.albuquerquelittletheatre.org. Price: $22, Senior $20, Student $18

June 4 - 20 | Fridays & Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 2.

Mass Appeal -by Bill C. Davis, directed by Craig Stoebling. Father Farley, a lover of the good things in life, is comfortably ensconced as priest of a prosperous Catholic congregation. His well-ordered world is disrupted by the arrival of Mark Dolson, an intense and idealistic young seminarian whom Father Farley reluctantly agrees to take under his wing. There is immediate conflict between the two as the younger man challenges the older man's sybaritic ways, while Father Farley is appalled by Mark's confession that he led a life of bisexual promiscuity before entering the priesthood. Info: Auxiliary Dog Theatre, 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE, 254-7716, http://www.auxdog.org. Price: $15, June 6 is pay-what-you-can.

June 4 - 27 | Fridays & Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 2.

Lucky Stiff - directed by Jane & Cy Hoffman. Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty exploded on the musical theatre scene in 1988 with their first off-Broadway show, this zany, offbeat, and very funny murder mystery farce. Called "a delicious, zany throwback--pure frosting, but whipped to perfect consistency" by the New York Post, the show, based on the novel "The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo" by Michael Butterworth, is a classic musical farce, complete with slamming doors, mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair. The story revolves around an unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced to take the embalmed body of his recently-murdered Atlantic City uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo. Should he succeed in passing Uncle off as alive, Harry Witherspoon stands to inherit $6,000,000. If not, the money goes to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn, or else to the gun-toting wife of the casino owner! First produced at Playwrights Horizons off-Broadway (Richard Rodgers Award) the show later went on to win Washington's Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical. Info: Adobe Theater, 9813 Fourth St. NW, 898-9222, http://www.adobetheater.org. Price: $14, Seniors or Students $12

June 11 - August 15 | Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 and Sundays at 6. Sundays at 2 beginning July 11.

Will Power! The Shakespeare Summer Festival from the Vortex. Albuquerque has never had a summer festival of Shakespeare's plays. Three of the Bard's comedies are combined into its Summer Shakespeare Festival: Will the willful couple of The Taming Of The Shrew find a way to live together without destroying each other? Will the young lovers of a Midsummer Night's Dream follow their hearts rather then their parents wishes? And will the witty couple in Much Ado About Nothing wake up to the fact that they are not too smart to love? Info: Vortex Theatre, 2004 1/2 Central SE, 247-8600, http://www.vortexabq.org. Price: TBA.

June 17 -20 | Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 2

Lullabies for My Father - conceived and directed by Kevin R. Elder, with Summer Olsson, Dodie Montgomery, Alex Knight and Hannah Kauffmann. Lullabies for My Father is Tricklock Company's newest original work, a collection of interviews and experiments on the subject of fathers that explores the notion of fatherhood and our relationships to the men we loved first. Hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking and highly entertaining, Lullabies is an excellent event to enjoy with your father or your grown children over Father's Day weekend. Lullabies for My Father is a part of Tricklock Company's Excavations New Work Series. The series features original works that are in development and are presented to the community as a "work in progress" to garner feedback and generate discussion. Info: Tricklock Company at The Box Performance Space, 114 Gold Avenue SW, 254-839, http://www.blackouttheatre.com Price: $10

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