Men In Paintings Debuts At UCB May 12

Paul Welsh's solo show Men In Paintings: A Night At The Crisp Family Hall Of Portraits debuts at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (307 W. 26th Street) at 8pm on Thursday, May 12, and returns at 8pm on Thursday, May 26. Tickets are $5 and can be reserved here.

A show guaranteed to make you feel better about your own terrible family, Men In Paintings answers the age old question of what happens when an entire family dies in a hot air balloon crash leaving a bearded, agoraphobic slob and the family's most noted dickhead to vie for the family fortune. Join the last Crisp on earth, David Crisp, as guided by long-suffering Crisp family caretaker George McCarthy, on a journey through his family's hall of portraits. One of them will win the full Crisp estate, but really, they'll both lose. David will meet an Italian cigarette fetishist, a business school obsessed octogenarian serial killer, an internet marketing jerk with film school aspirations, and the Fake Mustache King of the South.

Men In Paintings was written by and stars Paul Welsh. Paul, best known as one of the creators and founding performers of long-running improvised soap opera As The Diamond Burns, is a current member of UCB house improv team Grandma's Ashes. He recently appeared as a disinterested agent in The Sit Down and Shut Up NYPD Variety Hour, which enjoyed an eight month run at UCB. Shannon O'Neill (Prison Freaks: A Talent Show, The Stepfathers) directs.

 

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