Greater Tuna

One town. Two actors. Nearly 20 characters. It all adds up to the hilarious 45^th Season opener at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre. Opening Dec. 28 and on stage through Jan. 28, Greater Tuna kicks off the 2018 Season with lots of fun from this fictional town.

It starts as a typical day in Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas, with Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie at the microphones of Radio OKKK, broadcasting at a big 275 watts (when they remember to turn the transmitter on). The winning entry in the American Heritage Essay Contest is the big story of the day. Then Didi Snavely, of Didi’s Used Guns, arrives, followed by weatherman Harold Dean Lattimer, who warns of an incoming swarm of locusts, but is doubtful they’ll ever make it as far as Tuna. And the comedy continues, from Petey Fisk of the Humane Society talking about the duck problem, to Phineas Blye, perpetual losing candidate for city council announcing he’s running again and revealing his new platform. Coach Raymond Chassie provides the daily high school football report, which includes his insightful take on why his football team lost 48-0.

Tuna’s eclectic citizens continue to take the stage in all their outrageous and irreverent glory, commenting on life, politics, and what makes them tick. And all of them are played by just two actors – Beef & Boards own favorite funnymen: Eddie Curry and Jeff Stockberger.  It’s a show Variety called “howlingly funny,” and the Washington Post touted as “hilarious, a tribute to the art of acting.”