Holiday mayhem erupts at Asheville Community
Theatre with the opening of Inspecting Carol, a comedy that
mixes the pacing of Noises Off with
the behind the scenes hilarity of Waiting
for Guffman. Inspecting Carol will open at the downtown theatre on Friday, November
16, 2012 and run through Sunday, December 2, 2012 with performances on Friday
and Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 pm (no performance
Friday, November 23). Tickets are
available online, over the phone, or in person at the Asheville Community
Theatre Box Office.
In Inspecting Carol, a man who asks to
audition at a small theatre is mistaken for an informer for the National
Endowment for the Arts. Everyone caters to the bewildered wannabe actor and he
is given a role in the current production, A
Christmas Carol. Everything goes wrong – mechanical glitches, a misguided
rewrite, horrific costuming choices – and hilarity is piled upon hilarity. A
satire on the demands of arts organizations to maintain their grant funding
masquerading as a slapstick comedy, Inspecting Carol is a laugh a minute
ride through the last days of rehearsal before what may be one theatre’s last opening
night.
Inspecting Carol was written by Daniel J. Sullivan, a
Tony Award winner who was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in
2011. Asheville Community Theatre’s
production of Inspecting Carol is directed by Joan Atwood and stars ACT
veterans Frank Salvo, Craig Justus, Cary Nichols,
Beth & Walt Heinrich, Damian Davis, Cade Wooten and Eric Mills. Making
their ACT debuts are stars Evelyn Zebro, Steven Turner, Marcos Cunha and Katie
Keyser.
For
more information about Inspecting Carol or about Asheville
Community Theatre, please visit www.ashevilletheatre.org.
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