Haylofters’ adult-themed show plays on stereotypes
By Jennifer Eisenbart
Staff Writer
As one of the main characters in “The Great American Trailer Park Musical” will explain, not every stereotype about a trailer park is true.
Just, as it turns out, most of them.
With off-color and offbeat humor poking fun at everything from strippers to marital strife, the musical hits the stage of Burlington’s Malthouse Theater today.
The show will run from Oct. 4-6, 12-14 and 19-21. Thursday through Saturday shows begin at 7:30 p.m., with the two Sunday dates being 2 p.m. matinees.
Longtime Haylofters director Pamela Schroeder chose the show for its humor and music – in spite of the adult themes.
“Although we usually include family friendly shows, I believe that sometimes we should include shows for adults as well,” Schroeder explained. “It is cleverly written, extremely funny, has incredible music and deals with universal themes such as friendship, love and meeting life’s trials with strength and determination.
“We all encounter difficulties in life and the best way to get through difficult times is to ‘make like a nail and press on,’” she added.
Schroeder added that she has a dedicated cast.
“This cast is an amazing group of very talented actors/singers who are doing everything they can to do justice to the show as written and to my personal vision of how it should be realized on stage,” Schroeder said.
The show features the lives of a group of people in a Florida trailer park called Armadillo Acres – an agoraphobic named Jeannie who hasn’t been out of her trailer in about 20 years (played by Deb Davis), and her husband Norbert (played by Don Fresen), who falls for a newly-arrived tenant at the park, stripper Pippi (played by Amber Fox).
Pippi is on the run from her marker-sniffing ex-boyfriend Duke (Jeremiah Micolichek). The events of the show are narrated and explained by a trio of other residents – Betty (played by Robbyn Wilks), Lin (played by Julie Patten) and Pickles (played by Melissa Rodriguez).
Tickets for the show are $12 and are available for purchase on the Haylofters’ website at www.thehaylofters.com or at the Grater Tater, 140 W. Chestnut St. in Burlington.
The theater has advised this show is for mature audiences only, and is not appropriate for young theatergoers.
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