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Sometimes one of the local small companies puts on a show that just knocks your socks off, and this is certainly one of them. Playwright Londos D’Arrigo has been around for a while and written for acts such as Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin and Joan Rivers.  And; I have to figure that although he is from Ontario that he knows the scene in south Florida.

For this show is about a two seniors living in a gated retirement community, the greedy kids waiting for their inheritances, a self-indulgent daughter in law, and one local shrink.  The lines are right out of Milton Berle and all the schtick of the Catskills; and when I was speaking to Londos I asked him where it would be playing in south Florida. Because, I know that the Century Village crowd would soil themselves laughing. After all; if we can’t find something to laugh about when looking at ourselves, what meaning is there to life?

Brink Miller plays Martin, the next door handy man with tools who is forever fixing stuff for his neighbor, Angela, played by Holly Stevenson.  He’s a bit hard of hearing so he tends to speak a bit loudly.  She is trying to find more meaning to her golden years than playing canasta and mahjong.  

Unbeknownst to Angela, her greedy son Larry (Jacob York) shows up with his dipp-o wife Traci, played to the hilt by Amanda Cucher.  Seems they heard that Mom was spending a lot of her own money as opposed to conserving it all for them when she kicks the bucket.

They bring in a shrink played by Larry Davis in an attempt to get the son named as conservator of the mother’s assets; and the incredible repartee is what gets you rolling in the aisles.  I can’t tell you how it works out other than to say (a) it all works out in the end, and (b) I am certain that you know families like Angela’s. On that subject I am convinced that if you look up the word “Dyslexia” in the dictionary it should say “see Family.”

You have got to see this one.  It is real. It is funny. It is really funny. I give it a solid 10 on the proverbial scale.

Date:  January 24, 2009