“The News in Revue” Returns to Fairfield Oct 16th. We’re giving away tickets!

HeyFairfield.com will be giving away two tickets to Friday night’s performance in the Where is it Wednesday? contest. So check in tomorrow and see if you know where the picture was taken

The News in Revue, the Emmy Award-winning musical satire troupe, which started life in Westport, is returning to Fairfield County, performing an all-new edition of their ever-changing musical revue spoofing the people and places in the day’s headlines. For one performance only, October 16th, The News in Revue plays The Fairfield Theatre!

Fast paced and side-splittingly funny, each actor plays multiple characters in the course of the 90-minute show, lampooning everyone from A-Rod to Zardari. From Hillary Clinton’s globetrotting escapades to a behind-the-scenes look at life in the Obama White House with the First Grandma as our tour guide, to a ridiculously funny look at the swine flu epidemic as seen by a disheartened swine, The News in Revue promises more laughs than a Sarah Palin interview and will generate even more applause than Dick Cheney leaving office. You can always expect a few surprises because as news stories break, The News in Revue is on the job, producing topical tunes from their uniquely zany perspective.

The News in Revue has been praised by critics everywhere. It’s hailed as “a delight” by The New York Times and “very clever” by WNBC-TV. Variety raved that the material was “Excellent! So smart and so surprising!” Countless other critics concur. Says The Miami Chronicle: “A talented cast performing bulls-eye satire” and The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, “[The News in Revue] packs the kind of wallop that causes ear-to-ear grins. All I can say is, it works.”

The group’s newest show is written and created by Nancy Holson, writer/director of the Off-Broadway hit musical BUSH WARS and the co-creator/writer of the fabulously funny PARENTING 101”, which is playing to standing ovations across the country. Created in 1992 (and making audiences laugh ever since), The News in Revue has performed continuously in various cities throughout the country and has won five Emmy awards for its series of PBS specials, two of which were for Ms. Holson’s writing. The group has performed throughout the country entertaining dignitaries such as President Gerald Ford, various Cabinet members, assorted Senators, Congressmen, Mayors, and the Speakers of the House from all 50 states (and Saipan!). They have had troupes in residence in various cities in Florida, Connecticut, Colorado and for fifteen summer seasons in the Berkshires.

Tickets for Friday night’s show are available from the Fairfield Theater Company here