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Kansas City, Mo. - infoZine - The Great American Trailer Park Musical, music and lyrics by David Nehls, book by Betsy Kelso, opens December 1, 2006 at Unicorn Theatre. This riotous look at life on the other side of the tracks is directed by Cynthia Levin with musical direction by Anthony T.

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The Village Voice hailed The Great American Trailer Park MusicalL as "A show that actually lives up to the hype of its title."
The New York Post said, "Adultery, strippers, murderous ex-boyfriends, Costco and the Ice Capades.

Undeniable fun!"
Welcome to Armadillo Acres, Northern Florida 's most exclusive manufactured housing community. Betty, Lin (short for Linoleum) and Pickles, the double wide divas, lead us on a wild ride of press-on nails and pink lawn flamingos.

Also in residence is Jeannie, an agoraphobic housewife who finds comfort spending her days lounging on the couch watching Oprah and Dr. Phil. Her toll booth operator husband Norbert, frustrated with his wife's depressive state, visits the local strip club where he becomes taken with stripper on the run, Pippi who just moved into the trailer across the yard.

Pippi has a past and her Oklahoma City ex-boyfriend Duke, who's addicted to sniffing magic marker fumes, is determined to seek her out and win her back. What makes the silliness so fun is that the writers, Nehls and Kelso, never look down on the characters or the trailer park lifestyle. The Great American Trailer Park Musical serves as a humorous and poignant look at life on the other side of the tracks.


David Nehls (Music and Lyrics) has supplied music and lyrics for It's a Wonderful Life (1993 National tour, performed regionally 1989 - 2000), The Watercooler and Recordings - All BC/EFA "Carols For a Cure" Christmas CD's 1998 - 2004 (with such notables as Antonio Banderas, Idina Menzel and many Broadway casts, Rock-It Science Records), "Broadway Romances Manhattan" (Rock-It Science Records), "Kevin Cahoon and Ghetto Cowboy" (founding member) and "White Trash Soul" (Rock-It Science Records).
Betsy Kelso (Book) is a founding member of the all-female sketch-comedy group "Shirley Checkenpants," which has won praise from Playboy, Stuff, Bust, Paper, Talk, and other publications. She has written for "Behind the Music that Sucks," an animated series on FUSE Network, in which she can be heard as the voices of Courtney Love, Jennifer Lopez, Cher , and all three Dixie Chicks.

She is published alongside Cynthia Heimel, Craig Bierko and others in 101 Damnations: A Humorist's Tour of Personal Hells , a collection of comedic essays. As a performer, Betsy has appeared in Just for Laughs, A Day with Gates and Mills, starring Tim Conway and Tom Poston, and the European tour of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The Unicorn production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical is directed by Cynthia Levin (Directed recent Unicorn productions of tick, tick.

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, Frozen, I Am My Own Wife, Bug, The Exonerated, Convenience, Take Me Out and BatBoy: The Musical ) with musical direction by Anthony T. Edwards (Musical directed Unicorn's recent productions of tick, tick..

.Boom!, Crowns, Convenience, BatBoy: The Musical and Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and choreographed by Steven Eubank (Choreographed Unicorn's tick, tick.

..BOOM!

). The cast features Cathy Barnett (Changin' Lanes), Teri Adams (Painted Alice , Convenience, Dirty Blond, Quilters and Ruthless!), Julie Taylor (Bat Boy: The Musical), Karen Errington (Next of Kin, Bat Boy: The Musical, Wit and Quilters) Jessalyn Kincaid (The Gene Pool), James Wright (Unicorn Debut) and Jake Walker (The Santaland Diaries and Fuddy Meers),
The Great American Trailer Park Musical opens at Unicorn Theatre Friday, December 1, 2006 with previews Wednesday and Thursday November 29 and 30, 2006.

There will be no performance on December 24 or 25. December 23 performance is at 4pm. Special New Year's Eve performance December 31st at 8:30pm.

Doors open at 7:30pm for "light chow and drinks." There will be a "bubbly toast" immediately following the show at 10pm. $50 per person.


New for the 2006/2007 season: Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:30 pm, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 pm, and Sundays at 3:00 pm. Tickets can be purchased by calling 816-531-PLAY ext. 10, visiting the box office at 3828 Main Street , KCMO 64111 or online at .

Tickets for previews are $18.00, regular Tuesday through Thursday performances are $20.00, Friday and Saturday performances are $28.

00, and Sunday matinees are $22.00.
Talk-back performances with the director and cast on December 5, 10 and 12.

Performance interpreted for the hearing impaired December 7 at 7:30pm. Unicorn Theatre offers $5.00 off for senior citizens and full-time students (with valid I.

D.). Group rates are available, and students with valid I.

D. can purchase Rush Tickets for $7.00 five minutes before curtain (based on availability).

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Keywords: Trailer Park, Great American Trailer, American Trailer Park, Great American, American Trailer, Trailer Park Musical, Park Musical, Science Records, It Science, Unicorn Theatre
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