In about thirty minutes I'll be on my way to the Candlelight Pavillion Dinner Theatre - I'm interested to see what it's all about.
Around 1981, the cast of BARNUM and I went to "New York's Only Dinner Theatre" for a midnight production of Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN, set in the rubble of the hotel that burned down in Las Vegas (the MGM Grand?). it was one of the funniest events of my life: the cast used the text of the Euripides play and camped it up. Harlette Ula Hedwig played Cher playing Hecuba, Laura Kenyon played Lainie Kazan playing Andromache, Holly Woodlawn played Helen of Troy as I recall. and there were some others whom I've forgotten. I don't remember who played Elvis playing Menelaus but I'd swear now that it was Meatloaf. The Greek chorus of Trojan women was a whorey group of chorus girls stranded from the fire.
It was in a dive in the Easy Village and, to keep up the image of a dinner theatre, when you paid for your ticket, you were given a paper plate and a plastic fork, and you joined a line to receive a huge ladle of Kraft mac'n'cheese, wich you ate during the performance.
