December 7-10, 14-17, and 21-23 (7:30 PM)
Advanced Tickets $18 / Door $20 (if available)
Back for it's 7th consecutive season, THE KINGS will get you in the holiday spirit with holiday spirits (booze), holiday spirits (ghosts), and holiday spirits (you know, like the regular ones)!
Jake Beamer (Kennedy KIng) and Doug Schutte (Uncle Frank) return for their 7th season. Corey Music (Carter King) and Megan Adair (Carol King) are back for the 3rd consecutive year. Joining the King family this year are newcomers Meghan Logue (Wendy Williams) and Tony Smith (Clinton King).
Schutte calls it "A CHRISTMAS CAROL, if--you know--Dickens were an idiot." Reviewers are much more kind:
LEO WEEKLY:
The madcap opening moments of “Kings” are flat-out brilliant – and the rest of the play lives up to the opening. This is among the best-written, best-executed riffs on Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” you’ll ever see. In fact, a word to the wise: stop reading for a moment and immediately order your tickets. This is the fourth season of “Kings,” and as with the Louisville Ballet’s “Nutcracker” and ATL’s “A Christmas Carol,” tickets are a hot commodity. “King’s” has become a holiday tradition for many Louisville theater-goers. Groups file in together and fill entire rows in the intimate performance space. After a packed Sunday night performance, I overheard a chorus of folks saying: “We’ll do it again next year.”
The first half of the play is a courtroom comedy like none other, with Uncle Frank as prosecutor (channeling his courtroom idol, Ben Matlock), Wendy as an earnestly impulsive defense attorney (who repeatedly objects to her own inappropriate remarks) and a judge and jury made from poster board cutouts. The highlight of the trial is an intricate series of Rashomon-like reenactments that depict various accounts of Marley’s demise. These scenes are comic writing of a high order – and the ensemble revels in the shape-shifting variations.
Recommend for ages 16+