Bohemian Nights
Westberg Hancock Productions

"The worst thing about Bohemian Nights, and there are many, many bad things, is the nagging sense that most everyone involved should know better. It's mind-boggling that the husband-and-wife team of Hancock and Tristan, not to mention the cast, crew, and producers, could step back and look at this absolute fiasco and think it was a good idea.


11/25/06 - 01/06/07

Thu-Sat 8; Sun 3p


"The worst thing about Bohemian Nights, and there are many, many bad things, is the nagging sense that most everyone involved should know better. It's mind-boggling that the husband-and-wife team of Hancock and Tristan, not to mention the cast, crew, and producers, could step back and look at this absolute fiasco and think it was a good idea. And yet here we are, with a puerile farce about a wife who has sex with other men for her husband's voyeuristic pleasure, until the husband gets jealous when she starts to enjoy it too much with one of them. That man, Duane, also happens to get mixed up with some criminals, but that bizarre subplot is just an afterthought, as are the structure of the plot, the other ten actors stuck with underwritten characters serving little discernible purpose and some inexplicable references to Bohemia that seem to be there only to justify the (unjustifiable) title. The real focus of the endeavor is on the juvenile sex jokes (if you think a man asking another man to smell his fingers is inherently funny, you're in for a treat) and the simulated sex. The interminable, embarrassing simulated sex. Head and Cronholm go at it, in Lycra bodysuits complete with drawn-on nipples and penis, for what seems like hours. It isn't erotic, sensual or even funny. Like the show as a whole, it's just a whole lot of fucking that doesn't make a whole lot of fucking sense" - Kris Vire, TimeOut Chicago 12/12/06

Author
John Hancock

Director
John Hancock

Performers
Cary Cronholm, Kenn Head, H.B. Ward, Tony Banks, Lori Duncan, Crystal Hallendy, Jason Bogart Hightower, Tracy Kraatz, Lauran Osborne, Sam Potter, Jeff Pucket, Debra Rodkin, Dorothy Tristan

Production
Producer: Carey Westberg-Quitter; Exec Producer - Margaret Quitter; Assoc Producer/General Manager- Jeff Marsten; Assoc Proder, Prop Theater - Scott Costume Designer - Richard Donnelly; Asst Costume Designer - Christina Holstrom; Stage Manager - Kevlyn Hayes; Asst Stage Manager - Sam Guinan Nyhart; Set Consultant - Joanna Iwaniska; Revolve & Stage Designer - Robert Blake; Composer & Sound Design - Chris Ussery; Light Design - Tyler Packett; Marketing Box Office - Sandra Brady; Cello Consultant - Alan Rostoker; Technical Director - Don Jacobson; Poster Design - Larry Hart; Artist - Sandra Santucci; Graphic Designer - Jan Brykczynski; Group Theatertix President - Tami Manton; Production Accountant - Nancy Christ; and Set Decorator/Props - Kathy Gleser Wolfe

Tags: Theater, American, 2006