An Evening Out

Yesterday an old friend phoned from out of the blue and invited me to attend a musical comedy, Church Basement Ladies 2:  A Second Helping!, being performed last evening at a nearby college.

Though I’d heard of the original production of Church Basement Ladies, I wasn’t sure what to expect.  Not to worry---the show turned out to be very entertaining, provoking both laughter and serious thought.  The setting is a Lutheran church basement kitchen and since yours truly is no theater critic here is a bit of publicity info from the show’s website:

They are servin' it up again in the Church Basement Kitchen with the sequel to the highly popular musical comedy Church Basement Ladies. This time around, the year is 1969 and the world is changing. As folks protest the Vietnam War and women are demanding equal pay for equal work, in their small rural Minnesota community, the ladies of the Lutheran church basement kitchen are dealing with changes of their own. The Church Basement Ladies take us from serving the High School students at the Luther League Banquet to a church sponsored Missionary Night, to the rise and fall of the Viking's Super Bowl Sunday. From the elderly matriarch of the kitchen to the young mom-to-be, these women find strength in each other as they deal with the joys and upheavals from below the House of God! "You'll laugh until your sidedish hurts" with their hilarious antics and down-to-earth charm from within the church basement. This is most certainly true.

(You would have to be a Lutheran to truly appreciate that last sentence.)

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The show’s 2011 national tour schedule can be found here.