Better than Mel Brooks?

Penis jokes! Okay, now you probably don't even need to even bother reading the rest of this review of Mel Brooks's "Young Frankenstein" at the Orpheum

Jay Gabler is still giving us props in TC Daily Planet:

"There are a lot of penis jokes in Young Frankenstein, and sure, some of them are funny—but honestly, I laughed a lot harder at the danger-zone jokes in writer Corrie Zoll's Beaverdance at Bedlam in December. Maybe Zoll's better than Brooks at coming up with amusing genitalia-themed double entendres, maybe vaginas are just funnier than penises at this particular point in history, or maybe supersizing a production makes it harder for simple offhand gags to register. Unless Beaverdance hits Broadway we'll never know..."

Trang Do Slide Show

see the whole slide show on Flickr

Review from Cake in 15

From cakein15.com

Look, any show that starts off with the audience clapping and hollering “BEA-VER! BEA-VER!” is a show you want to be a part of. When you are exhorted into singing the Beaver version of the Internationale which happens to be a disco-ish number telling you to put your hand in the wet beaver, there is a great sense of solidarity. Even if you don’t decide to overthrow your capitalist oppressors, you can definitely overthrow another Summit and get into the Marxist holiday spirit.

StarTribune Best Bets

Beaverdance was listed in the Entertainment Best Bets in the StarTribune today.

Visitors

Last night we had a group of nine historical reenactors come to see the show. They were awfully nice and offered to help us actually get the history or the costumes right if we were interested.

The MinnPost Review

From MinnPost:

The entire piece, directed by Foxy Tann, feels as though it will careen out of control at any moment and the on-stage anarchy and absurdity are barely reined in. To this I say ­ more please.[...] "Beaverdance!" revels in its own madness, leaving the audience out of breath as the show twists and turns until its end. That this is dinner theater ­ with a fine, multicourse meal from the folks at Bedlam ­ is just an added bonus.

SantaMarx and the Beaver

Dwight Hobbes on Beaverdance

From the TC Daily Planet:

The cast, led by gifted actors Laura Leffler-McCabe, Bedlam co-founder John Bueche, Scotty Reynolds, Tom Lloyd, and Zoll, is splendid. Solidly supporting are Alberta Mirais, Heidi Arneson, Carly Wicks, Cody Stewart, Ben Egerman, and Kitten Stoeckeler. Mirais gives a clinic in chorus work, her dancing precise, gestures and facial expressions smoothly animated. She works with a world of chops, making a tough job look easy.

Beaverdance on MPR

On Minnesota Public Radio today:

"Once you combine Karl Marx with the Voyageurs, it's got to be a holiday show because Karl Marx has a big beard, and he could be disguised as Santa," Bueche said.
The Beaverdance story gleefully sets logic and historical accuracy aside, as well as most of its sense of decorum.
Bueche is in the show, as well as Corrie Zoll who plays Karl Marx, dressed in a Santa suit.
"And the thing was," said Zoll, "as soon as we found Foxy to direct the show, we realized we could cut some costs because right away the beaver costumes got a lot smaller."
It's an evening of slightly raunchy silliness, filled with double entendres. So who should see it? One cast member said it's a show for all the family, as long as everyone is older than 14.
Zoll describes the Beaverdance this way: "It's a show that your mother would like, but it's probably not a show that you would tell your mother you went to see."

Euan Kerr on Beaverdance

Just went from seeing Disney's 'Princess and the Frog,' then across town to Bedlam Theater's 'Beaverdance.' Two very different shows. VERY!

Listen for Euan's Beaverdance feature on Minnesota Public Radio Tuesday 12/8 during All Things Considered