My second foray into community theater begins Friday night.

Really it began a couple months ago with auditions and then rehearsals but I mean the show opens Friday night.

I'm playing the Captain of the Inquisition in Stone Soup Theatre Company's production of Man of La Mancha at an amazing century-old amphitheater called Forest Theatre in Chapel Hill.

I don't know why everybody around here spells theater funny but it's a good show. I can say that because most of what I do in the show is watch it.

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Man of La Mancha was a Broadway sensation in 1965 and it inspired a 1972 movie that, other than having Sophia Loren looking like Sophia Loren the whole time, was bad. Like, it had Peter O'Toole singing in it, and that wasn't one of the top 10 worst things about it.

Peter O'Toole looked good and Sophia Loren sang badly too, by the way.

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But the play! The play is good, and I say that as a person who doesn't have much patience for musical theater. It's a complicated — but easy to follow – play within a play that uses characters and the author of a 400-year-old novel, but isn't an adaptation of that novel. Got that? There are about 25 people onstage at all times, and here are some notable things about those people: 

• They each play multiple parts 
• They are all also stagehands
• I am not one of them

The Captain of the Inquisition and his trusty guard make four brief, intimidating and scary appearances, totaling about two minutes onstage, which is why I can't really say "Hey come see me in this play!" because two hours is a long time to sit around if you're just there to see me for two minutes.

But if you're there to see a fun, funny, disturbing, depressing and uplifting in a funny kind of way play with some good songs you're going to have fun. And you're going to be sitting in a theater that's worth a visit even when there isn't a play going on. 
 

The terraces are deep enough that you can bring a camp

chair and sit in it, or bring something padded or soft to

sit on if you're going to sit on the stone benches. 

And bonus! You get to see your friend The King Teen dressed like a 17th century army officer dragging or escorting people — depending on their social class — to their likely execution!

We're doing six shows. Friday and Saturday night and Sunday afternoon this weekend and next. The first Sunday show is pay what you can.

Come on out!

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