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SlapDab Theatre Company presents: A Night of James McClure "Bourbon and Laundry" & "Lone Star"
Directed by Crosby Hunt and Deborah K. Anderson
Produced by Shannon Bain for the SlapDab Theatre Company
featuring live performances by NYC indie favorite, Michael Hunter Band w/ Ian Hunt
Laundry & Bourbon
Set on the front porch of Roy and Elizabeth's home in Maynard, Texas, on a hot summer afternoon in 1972, this beautifully written one-act centers on the discontent and very funny gossip of three small-town wives whose marriages have turned out to be less than they hoped for.
Lone Star
One Saturday night in the Summer of '72 a pair of Texas "good ole boys" carouse in the cluttered back yard of a small Texas bar. Roy has just returned from Vietnam, drinking Lone Star beer and regaling his kid brother Ray, who cherishes three things above all: his country, his hot young wife, and his 1959 pink Thunderbird. As the evening wears on, the underpinnings of Roy's world begin to collapse.
This evening of one-acts follows on the heels of the SlapDab Theatre Company's sold-out run of 'The Tennessee Project" that thrilled audiences this past spring also at the Tank Theater. This show is an adult comedy and is not appropriate for children;
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About Michael Hunter.
Michael Hunter is one of those musicians who can do everything, and you'd kinda hate him for it if he weren't such a jovial, unassuming person on top of it all. On his first solo album, Hunter wrote, sang and played just about everything, from the piano-and-violin overture that opens the album to the throttling rock drums on "Embers" and the rockabilly guitar on "2nd Smartest Monkey."
Connecticut native Michael Hunter has been in New York City for a couple of years, paying his rent with musician-for-hire work ranging from drumming with metal bands to fiddling with an Americana group, from piano accompaniment with improv theater groups to orchestrating string arrangements in recording studios. But his own album, A Chance To Shine, has been in the works much longer, dating back to his days as a music composition student at Cornell University and several years playing in various upstate New York bands. It's an album about moving up and moving on, about leaving your small, comfortable life to roll the dice on building a bigger one.
They're familiar aspirations, especially in New York, where half of all people who want to be somebody wind up. But Hunter distinguishes himself from the plethora of wide-eyed strummers with his impressive instrumental skills and varied songwriting styles. The classically trained violinist decorates many of the 13 tracks on A Chance To Shine with string flourishes, even using it as a majestic lead instrument on "Top To Bottom" and the slow-building "Burn Me Up." And on guitar, bass, piano, drums, and vocals, Hunter shows he can tackle everything from delicate finger picking to driving rock riffs to the contemplative, Impressionist-style piano lead on "Take Me Back."
The only sounds on the album Hunter didn't make are singer Nicole Weiss's accompaniment on "Burn Me Up" and "2nd Smartest Monkey," and the guitar and bass on "Waking Dream," a holdover song from a past group, where he's accompanied by former bandmates Wade Varano on guitar and Michael Wu on bass. The album was produced by another former bandmate, Steven Goldman, at Four Legs Records studio in the Hudson Valley, and is now available online for download at Amazon, iTunes, CDBaby, and Bandcamp.
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LocationThe Tank @ 46th Street (View)
151 W. 46th St., 8th Floor
New York, NY 10036
United States
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