The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! at Avery Schreiber Theater

The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever!

Avery Schreiber Theater
11050 Magnolia Blvd North Hollywood

The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! opens at the time for the annual holiday production for a struggling gay theatre company. Jim, the pot-smoking straight tech guy offends the eclectic playwright, causing him to walk out and take his script with him. Now the crazy and drama-addicted team has just a few weeks to produce…the gayest Christmas pageant ever! This holiday camp-fest is a fast-paced comedy packed with hilarious dialogue and 40 over-the-top characters…meant for non-conservative adults of all ages!

Thru - Dec 30, 2011

Price: $18

Show Type: Comedy

Box Office: 818-481-8072

www.averyschreibertheatre.com/

The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! Reviews

Average Rating based on 3 reviews

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LA Weekly - Not Recommended

"...Shot through with tepid humor, writer Joe Marshall's rambling plot jumpstarts around the contentious squabbling among the group's gay founders, then slogs through a series of lame auditions and awkward rehearsals before actually featuring the pageant. Instead of wit, irony or camp, Marshall creates pathetic characters to ridicule - e.g., a foul-mouthed elderly woman who uses a walker, whose homophobia somehow makes it OK to laugh when she falls on her face."

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- Deborah Klugman

Stage Scene LA - Recommended

"...A not yet fully rehearsed opening weekend was hardly the most propitious time for inviting critics to review its West Coast Premiere, and without sufficient rehearsal, the draggy production I saw two weeks ago lacked (among other things) the razor-sharp timing so essential in a screwball comedy. Fortunately, this reviewer's schedule has permitted a return visit, and I can happily report that this new, improved The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! merits a largely unqualified WOW! What a difference time and timing can make."

- Steven Stanley

StageHappenings.com - Somewhat Recommended

"...The cast is wildly uneven and left this reviewer wondering what a more experienced cast might have brought to the production. Satire, especially theatrical and/or gay, is difficult to pull off."

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- Robert Machray

The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! at Avery Schreiber Theater