Ever had a hankering to have your art displayed big as a billboard for all the world to see? Here's your opportunity.

You can help paint a 180 foot mural of a winter scene inside an historic building at the Foss Waterway Seaport where the first ever Tacoma Winterfest will be held Dec. 13 and 14.

According to the folks at the Seaport: "The event will feature unique gifts and delicious foods sold by local businesses, complimented by live entertainment, a fashion show and many wonderful kids’ activities to top the bill."

Mural organizer Angela Jossy sent us the details:

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Lelavision perform at Museum of Glass. Photo courtesy Museum of Glass.

Lelavision dances on their instruments at MoG
For six years now, physical music performance group Lelavision has been doing their thing at the Museum of Glass, and it’s fascinating: moving sculptures which play bizarre music. 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. today. Free with admission: $10 adults/$8 seniors, students, military/$/$4 children 6-12/free under-6. 866-4-MUSEUM, www.museumofglass.org

“Dear Santa” opens at Tacoma Little Theatre
The comedy by Canadian Norm Foster sets up Santa as the CEO of a North Pole-based business team. Opens 8 p.m. tonight; then 8 p.m. Nov. 29, Dec. 5,6,12,13,19,20; 2 p.m. Nov. 30, Dec.7,14,21. $20 adults/$18 seniors, military, students/$16 under -12. 210 N. I St., Tacoma. 253.272-2281, www.tacomalittletheatre.com

“Scrooge” lights Tacoma’s tree
If watching the downtown holiday tree lighting makes you all sentimental, seeing the movie/musical “Scrooge” at the Pantages will cap it off. Plus, there’s cookies, cider and Santa. “Scrooge” 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., Tree Lighting 5 p.m. Nov. 29. $8 movie. Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-591-5894, www.broadwaycenter.org

Residency artist at The Helm, plus locals
The Helm Gallery has a mixed bag up now: photos and drawings from local artists and paintings from Helm resident Tina Schwarz, from Cologne, Germany. Noon-6 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays through Dec. 2. Free. 760 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-627-8845, www.thehelmgallery.com

Tacoma Community College will be starting its annual Winter Pottery Sale at the Gallery with an opening reception next Thursday, December 4 from 5-8 p.m. Sale continues 10:00 a.m.-5:00p.m. Dec. 5 and 10:00 a.m.-2:00p.m. Dec. 6.

Location: Tacoma Community College Art Gallery, enter on South 12th Street near Mildred Street, Tacoma.
253-566-5346, www.tacomacc.edu/thegallery

Tacoma downtown tree lighting. Photo: Kevin Freitas.

The weather's shivery, the sky's dreary, the economy--well, don't get me started. We definitely need some warm fuzzies right now, and here's the ticket: watching the lighting of the downtown Broadway Holiday Tree while munching on cookies and cider, chatting to Santa and making history (Tacomans have gathered to light the downtown Tree since 1946). The event is scheduled for this Saturday afternoon, just as it gets dark at 5 p.m., and there'll be a group photo, so wear your nicest beanie!

Jacob Marley's ghost scares the humbug out of Scrooge by inhabiting his door-knocker.

As a bonus to get us all in the mood, the Broadway Center is screening the 1970 film "Scrooge: the Movie Musical" starring Albert Finney as the grumpy Ebenezer. Four-time Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe winner, this movie tells the familiar Dickens tale of the stingy boss who refuses to acknowledge the Christmas spirit until three ghosts scare the money out of him. Snowy Victorian streets, fur-muffed carollers, that spooky, ghost-inhabited door-knocker--it's all there to kickstart the season. (And it's rated G.)

Screenings at the Pantages are at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., tickets $8 in advance or at the door. 901 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-591-5894, www.broadwaycenter.org

Photos by Paul Kolnik

I was watching TV news on the day in 1986 when the Academy Awards nominations were announced. They had video of a woman jumping and screaming after learning she had been nominated for best supporting actress in the 1985 film “The Color Purple.” I’d never heard of this actress, a Chicago TV talk show host, and she didn’t win the award a month later.

Fast forward 20 years and now the whole world knows who Oprah Winfrey is. And once again, she’s involved with “The Color Purple.”

On Dec. 16 Oprah’s touring musical production of “The Color Purple” opens at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre. Based on both Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the film by Steven Spielberg, the musical was nominated for 11 Tony Awards on Broadway. It features a Grammy-nominated score of gospel, jazz, pop and the blues.

While Oprah is only producing and not performing in it, the musical features a lot of talent, both on stage and behind it.

Show dates run 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. A special matinee performance will also take place on Wednesday, Dec. 24 at 1 p.m. Ticket prices range from $25 to $75 with a limited number of $150 tickets available in the Loge area.

Tickets are on sale now at Fred Meyer, Ticketmaster outlets, www.theparamount.com, www.BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com or by calling 206-292-2787.

Elise Richman, "Island IV". Photo: Richard Nichol.

Good news--Elise Richman's dreamily surreal series of 3D encaustic oils has been extended at Kittredge Gallery. This assistant professor at UPS does work based on the shape and feel of San Juan Island, ending up almost tropical in ultra-saturated aquas, turquoises and lime-greens. The show repopens after Thanksgiving on Dec. 2, through Dec. 15. The annual student show runs in the big gallery.

Kittredge has also posted a Richman podcast in their series of 10-minute discussions between artist and students.

Visitors can also check out an ipod in the gallery to listen to podcasts while visiting.

Kittredge Gallery is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, noon-5 p.m. Saturdays at the University of Puget Sound, at the corner of Lawrence and North 15th Streets, Tacoma. 253-879-2806, www.ups.edu/kittredge.xml

“I.O.U.S.A.,” a documentary that examines America's crushing national debt, will be screened at 7 p.m. today in Room 100 of PLU’s Ingram Hall.

Directed by Patrick Creadon, who made “Wordplay,” the lighthearted yet gripping 2006 documentary about crossword puzzle devotees, “I.O.U.S.A.” features interview footage with such financial heavyweights as former Federal Reserve chiefs Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, as well as Warren Buffet and Robert Rubin, Treasury secretary during the Clinton administration. Given the financial crisis currently gripping the nation, it’s particularly timely.

The screening is free.

Cirqueworks acrobat Russ Stark on the German Wheel. Photo Darin Basilie.

Remember Cirqueworks? That Cirque-du-Soleil-style stage show about the mythical Birdhouse Factory that came to the Pantages back in September last year? Well, they're making good in New York, running at the New Victory Theater to rave reviews like this one by Lawrence van Gelder in yesterday's New York Times:

"If a production line cranked out adjectives to appraise “Birdhouse Factory,” the results would certainly include exceptional, evocative, eye-catching, ear-catching and, to keep the list short, engrossingly entertaining...Sagiv Ben Binyamim and Elisabeth Carpenter perform high-peril acrobatics aboard a rope and swinging lamp; he returns with Aloysia Gavre, the show’s choreographer, for a remarkable combination of acrobatics and tango atop an industrial-size spool."

Yes, that sultry, bendy tango was my favorite number, too.Van Gelder continues the rave:

"Khongorzul Tsevenoidov, whose spine seems made of rubber, is the troupe’s amazing contortionist. Russ Stark, Wes Hatfield and Michael Redinger amuse everyone as they leap from wall to trampoline and back again, doing a variety of flips and flops along the way. There is plenty more.
Intelligently conceived and expertly executed (more e’s from the production line), “Birdhouse Factory” is, in a word, excellent."

Well, hey, New York, we saw them first! Not only that, but it's partly due to our support, and the entrepreneurial vision of the Broadway Center who brought them here, that Cirqueworks are getting good gigs rather than cashing unemployment checks. As I said in my TNT preview of Sept. 14, 2007:

"This year, the 12-member Cirqueworks has a respectable tour of 15 back-to-back shows. Says (founder Chris) Lashua: "People like David Fischer at the Broadway Center are willing to take risks with us. It would be a hell of a lot easier to get out there and do a Cirque du Soleil clone. The tough thing is being original. But when you take risks, you get recognition for being a responsible artist."

The Valkyries (Stacey Rishoi, Marie Plette, Holly Hall, Sarah Heltzel, Caroline Thomas, and Luretta Bybee). © Chris Bennion photo

It's coming, folks, with blasting trombones, shrieking Valkyries and magical flames. Yes, it's Wagner's "Ring Cycle," and the Seattle Opera version is just nine months away. Devotees need no encouragement here. For the uninitiated, Wagner's four lengthy 19th-century operas concerning the German legend of a golden ring of the Rhine river are a mammoth opus, seminal in the history of opera and a very, very big deal for companies to put on.

Why mention this now? Because tickets have just gone on sale. And if you are really keen about the Ring, you'll know that Wagner fan worth their salt will be forking out hundreds right now to get the best seats. So you might want to, also--because when you watch fifteen hours of opera over four nights, you'd better hope the seats are okay.

It's hard to sum up four operas in one sentence. But here goes. In "Das Rheingold" ("The Rhinegold") the dwarf Alberich steals the Rhinegold to make a ring, which the gods steal despite the curse Alberich puts on it; in "Die Walkure" ("The Valkyrie") the Valkyrie Brunnhilde saves the mortal Sieglinde and her unborn child from a battle, for which the god Wotan puts her into a magical fiery spell (while the dragon Fafner gets the Ring); in "Siegfried" ("Siegfried") Sieglinde's child Siegfried slays Fafner and gets both the Ring and Brunnhilde; in "Gotterdammerung" ("Twilight of the Gods") everyone dies, while the Ring goes back to the Rhine.

Whew. If you like Norse sagas, endless German opera, melodramatic music and big BIG singing, you'll love the "Ring." Otherwise, stay away.

The only "Ring" I've endured completely was one I played double bass for, the first complete "Ring" in Australia, with the Adelaide Symphony and Australian Opera. Some of it was fun, but the rest was torture. We had masseurs backstage to prevent our muscles dying from the demanding parts. I did a lot of yoga, and tried to avoid Norse gods for a long time afterwards.

But Seattle Opera's known for its new productions every three years, and this one promises good singers (Janice Baird, Stig Fogh Anderson), good direction (Stephen Wadsworth) and a host of fun apres-Ring activities, like pre-concert talks, "Rheingold" champagne parties, and performances of "Das Barbecu" (the comedic tale of what the gods do in their non-opera lives, deep in the heart of Texas.)

If this is all too much for you, stick with the spoof versions: Anna Russell's classic rendition and the inimitable Bugs Bunny.

Wagner's "Ring Cycle" will be performed throughout August, 2009 at McCaw Hall, Seattle. Tickets start at $302 through $1508 for all four operas, though single tickets are available also. 206-389-7676, 800-426-1619, www.seattleopera.org

Preston Singletary, "Seal People." Image courtesy Traver Gallery.

Happy Birthday, Traver Gallery!
Traver celebrates five years in Tacoma with a show featuring Australian glass artist Tim Edwards and Tlingit glass sculptor Preston Singletary. Reception 4-7 p.m. Nov. 15, then 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, noon-5 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 7. Free. 1821 E. Dock St. Suite 100, Tacoma. 253-383-3685, www.travergallery.com

Tacoma Symphony does chamber music
Locals Craig Rine (clarinet) and Thane Lewis (viola) are soloists for Saturday’s chamber concert with the Tacoma Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15. $10-$75. Rialto Theater, 310 S. 9th St., Tacoma. 253-272-7264, www.tacomasymphony.org, www.broadwaycenter.org

Flute music in Second City Chamber Series
Flutist Darrin Thaves and pianist Sandra Bleiweiss play music from Paris and Rio di Janiero. 4 p.m. Nov. 16. $20/$10 student rush (15 minutes before performance.) First Lutheran Church, 524 South I St., Tacoma. 253-572-TUNE, www.scchamberseries.org

ArtWalk: Glass Heads and Belly Dancing
November’s ArtWalk features glass heads, tree stumps and more at Fulcrum Gallery, a Northwest Native show at Mineral, and belly dancing at Tacoma Art Museum. 5-8 p.m. Nov. 20. Free. Fulcrum: 1308 MLK Jr. Way, Tacoma, 253-250-0520, fulcrum.oliverdoriss.com. Mineral: 301 Puyallup Ave. #A, Tacoma, 253-250-7745, www.kinoworld.net. TAM: 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253-272-4258, www.tacomaartmuseum.org

The Museum of Glass has just been awarded the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass (AACG) Annual Award for 2008. The AACG is a non-profit supporting glass art via exhibition grants, teaching programs, seminars and so on. On receiving the annual award (and the accompanying $5,000) MoG director Tim Close was invited to give a lecture on the museum's mission and recent changes at the Sculpture Objects and Functional Art (SOFA) exposition in Chicago last Saturday.

From the MoG press release:

“We are very honored to be the recipient of this prestigious award,” states Close. “The Museum of Glass strives to be the best contemporary glass museum in the world by providing inspiring exhibitions in our galleries, entertaining and explanatory demonstrations in our Hot Shop, and engaging educational programs for our visitors—all with the goal of making glass and art accessible to all. To have the AACG recognize our efforts is significant.”

Previous recipients of the AACG Annual Award include the Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass and Pilchuck Glass School.

Sculpture by D.J. Garrity. Image courtesy Lakewold Gardens.

From Thursday through Sunday, Lakewold Gardens are playing host to a stone sculpture workshop led by D.J. Garrity. Garrity is not only the award-winning sculptor-in-residence at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, he's been listed as one of the top 100 Irish Americans by, naturally, Irish America Magazine.

"The Rhythms of Stone" workshop, according to Lakewold's press release, "blends stone carving technique and the art of three-dimensional portraiture in a process that offers a unique garden sculpture with the creative imprint of the individual student."

No experience is required and the workshop is accredited for undergraduate, graduate and professional development.

Dates: November 13-16, 9:00am-3:30pm with hour for lunch
Location: Lakewold Gardens, 12317 Gravelly Lake Drive S.W., Lakewood
Course Fee: $455 members, $485 non-members
Class size will be limited to twelve participants. To register call 253-584-4106 x106
www.lakewoldgardens.org

Dance class at Barefoot Studio's 2007 launch party. Photo courtesy Carrie Goodnight.

If you haven't heard about the newly-reconfigured Barefoot Studios, this Saturday's annual fall launch party is a great time to check it out. The contemporary dance studio took a new turn over the summer when founders/directors Paul and Josephine Zmolek left for teaching jobs in Idaho. The dancers and choreographers who'd worked with them have formed a collective, continuing the existing movement classes in the bright purple-and-lime studios at 1604 Center St (near Party World) and taking turns producing new contemporary dance shows every month.

Saturday's launch party includes classes in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, creative dance, barefoot beat, pilates mat, and Highland youth dance--all for just $5. Managing members of the collective will also be around to chat about the revival of the 10x10 works-in-progress series, commencing in January, 2009. There'll be a brunch at noon, and some Pilates reformer demonstrations.

Here are the class times:
10 a.m. Marla Simms teaches barefoot beat
11 a.m. Rosa Vissers teaches jazz
12 p.m. brunch in the downstairs studio along with a free Pilates demonstration by Carrie Goodnight
1 p.m. Amanda Herman teaches ballet, with 10x10 info session downstairs
2 p.m. Carol McPherson teaches Highland youth dance, Michael Hoover teaches creative dance, or bring your own mat and join Carrie Goodnight for Pilates mat
3 p.m., Carrie Goodnight teaches contemporary dance
4 p.m. Amanda Herman teaches tap

All of the classes except Highland youth dance are designed for adults (ages 16 and up) at a beginning/intermediate level. The $5 fee is payable by cash or check. Managing members will be on hand throughout the day to answer any questions about class registration, artist installations, membership in the collective, or space rental.

Barefoot Studios is located at 1604 Center St., Tacoma. For more information, call 253-627-2273 or visit www.barefootcollective.org.

Tacoma's three major museums are honoring veterans by giving free admission to retired veterans, active-duty military and their dependents on Veterans Day on Tuesday. Show valid military ID and get in free to the Tacoma Art Museum, Museum of Glass and Washington State History Museum, all day long.

As well as regular exhibits, here's what's on offer that day:

Tacoma Art Museum
10:30 a.m. Lecture: 
"Through Others’ Eyes: Ottomans and the West Seeing Each Other" by Ottomanist scholars Selim Kuru and Walter G. Andrews, from the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at University of Washington.
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma
253-272-4258, www.tacomaartmuseum.org

Washington State History Museum
1 p.m. TVW Author's Hour with Les Eldridge, author of a series of novels on the American Civil War at sea. Program will be aired on TVW.
2-4 p.m. Lecture: Sam Green, Washington State’s Poet Laureate, on “Can Poetry Affect War?”
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 1911 Pacific Ave., Tacoma
1888-BE-THERE, www. WashingtonHistory.org

Museum of Glass
All Day: Hot Shop Featured Artist Benjamin Cobb
Open 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. 1801 Dock St., Tacoma
1800-4-MUSEUM, www.MuseumofGlass.org

Cross-Dressing Opera
Tacoma Opera opens their season with the cross-dressing castle chaos of Rossini’s “Le Comte Ory.” 8 p.m. tonight, 2 p.m. Nov. 9. $25-$52 with discounts for seniors, youth, military. Rialto Theater, 310 S. 9th St., Tacoma. 253-627-7789, www.tacomaopera.com
, www.broadwaycenter.org

Seattle Symphony plays Pantages
Tacoma Philharmonic presents the Seattle Symphony’s annual Tacoma performance tonight, featuring Mozart, Beethoven and Dvorak. 7:30 p.m. tonight. Tickets from $32.50. Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-272-0809, www.tacomaphilharmonic.org, www.broadwaycenter.org

Tour Tacoma’s Art Studios
This weekend marks the 7th anniversary of the Art at Work Studio Tours. Sixty-one Tacoma artists and two schools open up their work spaces for a day or two, allowing visitors to see the process and buy direct. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 8 and 9. For map and locations, pick up an Art at Work brochure from cafes, museums or theaters, or visit www.tacomaculture.org

Shakespeare in the Beauty Salon
Was it Shakespeare, Marlowe or Jonson who wrote the King James Bible? Find out in “Proofs of Holy Writ,” a Kipling story adapted by Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, at Embellish Salon. By donation. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 at Embellish, 1121 Court D #A, Tacoma. Also 7 p.m. Nov. 15 at Kings Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma; 2 p.m. Nov. 16 at Mandolin Café, 3923 S. 12th St., Tacoma; and 7 p.m. Nov. 20 at Sanford and Son, 743 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-318-5182, www.shakespeareintheparkinglot.org

Painter Sharon Carr in Joe Palcich's studio. Image courtesy Sharon Carr.

One of my favorite parts of Art at Work month is the Studio Tour weekend, on this Saturday and Sunday around Tacoma. Why? Because I, like most of us, spend way more time looking at art than at how it's made. The Studio Tours, now in their seventh year, give local artists a chance to open their doors for a day or two to show the rest of us just how they create, and where, and to even try a bit ourselves.

For starters, you've probably been inside the Grand Cinema, but have you ever gone up the stairs from Tacoma City Ballet and explored the upper lofts of the Merlino Building? Long and skinny, with big windows and dusty wood floors, they house artists like Fumiko Kimura and Lois Yoshida, who paint using the Sumi technique.

And you may have seen some of the letterpress broadsides floating round Pierce Transit buses this month, or even a letterpress book or two--but have you ever seen inside Jessica Spring's garage studio, also known as Springtide Press? It's filled to the brim with 100-year-old handpresses, ink brayers, huge reams of paper and enormous cabinets of tiny drawers filled with heavy lead cubes of type.

Have you ever seen bronze being poured into a mold? Dancers rehearsing? Even the sheer quantity of paint and brushes used by an artist like Becky Frehse is an eye-opener.

So don't be shy--get on the bus or in the car and take yourself around to some of the 61 studios open this weekend. You might find something you'd like to buy, or an art activity you can try yourself. Or you might just get a deeper appreciation of the hard, skilled work that goes into the finished art you see in galleries and museums.

Tacoma Studio Tours run 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 8 and 9 (not all studios open both days) and are free. For map and location, pick up a brochure at cafes, museums or theaters, or download from www.tacomaculture.org

If you go to hear the Seattle Symphony at the Pantages this Friday, you won't just hear the Seattle Symphony. You'll also hear (and see) four outstanding young Pierce County musicians, playing with the world-class orchestra as part of their annual Gold Medalists program.

The SSO concert is an annual Tacoma visit, of course, presented by the Tacoma Philharmonic. It's a great way to hear this fantastic orchestra without the hassle of I-5, Seattle parking fees and whatnot. And they're playing a great program: Mozart's overture to "Don Giovanni," the Beethoven violin concerto and Dvorak Symphony no. 7, under conductor John Fiore and with violinist Stefan Jackiw.

But what makes it special is that every year there's always a few local kids on stage. The SSO's Gold Medalists program offers top-level high-school-age musicians the opportunity of rehearsals at Benaroya Hall, personal coaching from Seattle Symphony musicians and a concert performance with the orchestra, often in their home town. The students also get presented with a medal onstage before the concert. It's not only a chance to experience what a professional orchestra feels like, it's wonderful recognition for these kids who work so hard at their instruments.

The Gold Medalists to be featured in the Seattle Symphony’s concert in Tacoma on November 7 are all senoirs at local high schools: JohnMark Taylor, viola (Curtis), Grace Youn, violin (Curtis), Olivia Thomas, violin (Spanaway Lake) and Hayley Watt, violin (Tacoma School of the Arts.)

Concert begins at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 7 at the Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma. Tickets from $32.50, at 253-272-0809 or www.tacomaphilharmonic.org

Andrea Chamberlain (center) performs with other cast members in "The Drowsy Chaperone" now at The 5th Avenue Theatre.

I attended a preview of “The Drowsy Chaperone” Thursday night at The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. Is it possible to over laugh? My jaw was a little worn out after the show.

The five-Tony Award winning Broadway musical is as much a comedy as it is a musical and there’s plenty of both – and dancing – in the delightful show.

The premise of the story is that a 21st century down-in-the-dumps man cheers himself up by putting on an album of a beloved 1920’s musical one evening. One by one the characters appear on stage (the man’s apartment) and the musical unfolds.

The musical within the play theme works so well thanks to that “man in chair” who acts as the narrator. Jonathan Crombie turns out an outstanding performance as he guides us through the show, sometimes stopping the action to wittily deconstruct a scene or offer some juicy gossip about the actors. It’s one of those rare performances that makes it impossible to imagine anyone else in the role.

The musical itself is delightfully overacted with cartoonish characters. Mishaps with the record player reverberate through the cast as if a puppeteer was in control. It all works astonishingly well.

Another standout performer was Andrea Chamberlain, playing Janet Van de Graaff, the star of the musical within the play. The highlight of the show is her performance of “Show Off.” During the piece she runs through a mind boggling number of talents, costume changes, photo posing and dance moves (the photo above) all the while lamenting her life in the spotlight.

The show has a fascinating back story. It was first put on as a series of songs and scenes as a wedding gift to performers Bob Martin (who went on to become the first “man in chair”) and Janet Van de Graaff in 1998. The show grew in length (now one hour, 45 minutes) and prominence, eventually making it to Broadway in 2006.

There isn’t a weak performance in the play/musical and only one irritating minor character: the stereotypical high-pitched New Yorker starlet wannabe. This is a show that has been tried, tested and tuned by years of performance. There isn’t one superflours line, missed cue or flat joke.

“The Drowsy Chaperone’ runs Tuesdays-Sundays through Nov. 16 at The 5th Avenue Theatre. Check their website or call 206-625-1900 for times and tickets.