Coming May 12th, 2010
| Date | Show Time | Price |
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| Wednesday, May 12th | 8:00pm | $12 |
| Thursday, May 13th | 8:00pm | $12 |
| Friday, May 14th | 8:00pm | $15 |
| Saturday, May 15th | 2:00pm | $12 |
| Saturday, May 15th | 8:00pm | $15 |
Directed by Martin Weeden, Produced by Helen Weeden.
A group of apparent strangers are staying the night in Saskatchewan’s Last Resort, a hotel in the middle of nowhere that will serve as the perfect hideout for mob informant Nick Galeazzo. On the run with FBI agent Angela Miller, Nick is paranoid that every other guest in the hotel is out to kill him. Freda Heitz, who operates the rundown hotel, has her work cut-out for her in trying to keep all her guests happy. Her Brazil night festivities unexpectedly provide both party and motive. Certainly, the Barzinis, a couple celebrating their 24th anniversary get more than they bargained for, and poet, Trent Balfour, finds inspiration at last. Inspector Closely is the RCMP attaché who has to sort out the situation. A tough case to crack indeed.
"The Last Resort" is a madcap, off-the-wall, murder mystery musical comedy with book by Norm Foster and music and lyrics by Leslie Arden. In the following scene, Liz, one of the guests at the resort, expresses an interest in culture:
Liz: I’d like to hear a poem.
Trent: All right. This one is from my romantic period. I wrote it one night, after a particularly magnificent woman and I had made love. As we lay there in the afterglow and she drifted in and out of a contented sleep, I reached over her ample torso, for this was a woman of sizeable girth, and I collected a pen and paper and jotted down the following.
Sid: Liz, didn’t you write something one night after we made love?
Liz: My lawyer, but he said the marriage was legal.
(THEY LAUGH.)
Sid: Sorry, go ahead.
Trent: I call it, “Ships in My Harbour”. Ships....Barnacles.... Dysentery is rampant. The stench brings me to my knees. Thank you.
(THERE IS A SILENCE AS THEY ALL STARE AT TRENT.)
Sid: What the hell was that?
Trent: Haiku.
Fred: Gesundheit.
Trent: No, no. That’s the type of poem it was. Haiku. It’s a form of Japanese verse.
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