Nealshow Productions' CAMPING: THE MUSICAL! Set for Gorilla Tango, 6/5-26
By: Tyler Peterson
Nealshow Productions is back with a third show, and this one IS a musical! Camping: The Musical!, written and performed by Brian Labahn, Pat Radke, and Dave Satterwhite, will be performed June 5-June 26, Fridays at 7:30pm, at Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago 60647. Tickets are $15; to purchase, call 773-598-4549 or visit www.gorillatango.com.
Since his sons left home to become men, Dad has been spending his days just trying to keep mice out of his apartment. When the rodent infestation seems to be under control, he reminisces about the great times he had with his sons when they were younger and spent many a long holiday weekend camping. Well, it's Christmastime, and Dad's sons are coming home! Camping: The Musical! is a charming, gag-a-minute, song-filled salute to the magic of a father and son camping trip. If you thought the days of the classic Broadway-style musical were as dead as dinosaur bones, you can thank your lucky stars that you're wrong! Nealshow Productions delivers a musical as pungent as PIPPIN, as wonderful as WICKED, and as adorable as ANNIE. Composer/lyricist Grunge Champlain says, "In the past few years or maybe even a decade or more, musicals have moved away from that great Sondheim sound in favor of a more rock and roll based sound, which is great on the radio or in the dive bar or playing out of a boombox at the backyard barbecue, but not for the theatre stage. A musical about a father and son camping trip was ripe for an old-time musical treatment. So I composed these songs in an 'everything old is new again' context, pretending or imagining in my head, that lush ballads and foot tapping showstoppers never went out of style, and I think I succeeded in doing this and I think any intelligent or even semi-intelligent audience will agree that I did so."
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