ASSISTED LIVING: THE MUSICAL to Play El Portal Theatre, 4/1-3
3,000 Miles Off-Broadway Productions presents ASSISTED LIVING: The Musical at the historic El Portal Mainstage Theatre, in the NOHO Arts District, North Hollywood, CA. This special 4 show only engagement will be presented April 1, 2 & 3, 2016.
Assisted Living: The Musical is a 75-minute vaudeville-esque revue originally written for two actors and a pianist. From early retirement right up to the pulling of the plug, 21st Century seniors are partying like it's 1969. Imagine: no work, no pregnancy and a full array of Medicare-subsidized pharmaceuticals.
Assisted Living 's creators and stars are Rick Compton and Betsy Bennett billed as Compton & Bennett. They have been writing and performing together since 1995, plowing the fertile fields of political and social satire in and around Naples, Florida.
The show's host couple are partying at Pelican Roost, the full-service retirement community that is home to the 18 different characters played by the show's two actors. The couple enters heaven, suspecting their son pulled the plug ... to get his hands on Dad's vintage Corvette. They don't seem to mind. Instead, the couple fondly remembers Pelican Roost, an active, full-service retirement community.?There, eighteen different characters sing and dance, revel and kvetch, celebrate and bloviate their way through later life.??Naomi Lipshitz-Yamamoto-Murphy regularly upgrades her living arrangements as an unintended consequence of spousal mortality.??A Stetson-ed lawyer promises that legal compensation hides in every act of aging.??A Wellness Center nurse actively - very actively - recruits organ donors.??A 93-year old Cadillac owner redefines "Drive Thru Window."??A frentic hypochondriac chase s...??Well, you get the idea, each one is living his and her life - in the moment - to the max.??There are no sad songs, no Depends jokes and no f-bombs in Assisted Living: The Musical.?Everyone there is having way too much fun for that!
Assisted Living: The Musical is not just for old people anymore than Oklahoma! is just for cowboys, Gypsy is for Romanians, or Rent is for people who don't own their own homes.
Assisted Living: The Musical is for everyone who is aging, or hopes to do so someday. You'll see your parents, your friends and maybe some of yourself.
For tickets and information please call 818-508-4200 or online at www.elportaltheatre.com.
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