The Golden Garter Theatre presents "The Magic, Music & Merriment Revue"

 This Summer, bring the whole family and create a vacation memory that will last a lifetime. Appropriate for everyone from ages 4 to 104, The Golden Garter Theatre will make you to “laugh ‘til your cheeks hurt.” Stevenson Washington’s newest old theatre will take you back in time to the edge of the wild frontier, 1908, the year Stevenson was incorporated as a city, and let you experience the most popular entertainment of the time; Wild West Vaudeville – with a twenty-first century spin on it of course!       

You’ll experience the live escapades of The Great Gorge Variety Arts Players (That’s “GGVAP” for short). The GGVAP are our professional group of thespians who will tickle your funny bone, touch your heart and turn your evening into a historically-hysterical experience!      

On performance evenings, our pre-show begins with an age-old tradition called the “Sing-Along,” so start warming up your voice now. Our handsome and trustworthy MC will lead you in recreating the songs popular at the turn of last century (Beware: Anyone caught not singing will be made to sweep the theatre floors after the show). Following our sing-along, you'll experience a hilarious live vaudeville-style variety show. You’ll witness sensational songs, veracious ventriloquism, marvelous magic, calamitous comedy, delightful dance and humor so clean you can grill a ham-bone on it! And grill you will, because the best news of all is that you, the audience, once again becomes the star of the show! More than one unsuspecting attendee will be asked up on the stage and everyone present will witness the birth of Stevenson’s newest star…You! Since every show depends so heavily on audience participation, every show becomes different because every audience is different. So, we hope you’ll come back and give us the honor of your presence and participation time and time again. We can’t do The Golden Garter without you…and performing for an empty theater is no fun whatsoever…so we hope to see you again and again!      

CLEAN, FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT

Our parents wouldn’t have it any other way! At The Golden Garter, we pick up after ourselves, say grace before meals and tip our hats to ladies! We don’t put up with any of that cursin’, cussin’ or spittin’! You can trust we’re a “class” act, gentile and refined too. So, don’t come alone (unless you have no choice). Bring the whole family! Kids, teens, parents and grandparents all LOVE the zany antics of “The Magic, Music & Merriment Revue.”       

So, don’t delay, get your tickets today. The Golden Garter has been known to sell-out entire seasons (just don’t ask “when?”), so don’t be left in the dust, don’t end up high and dry, don’t miss the “Show” Boat, and “don’t wait ‘til the sun shines, Nellie”!, write or call to reserve your seats in our historically-hysterical evening of comedy immediately (that means right now, today! Why are you still reading this? Stop and pick up the phone…that’s what it’s there for! You won’t be sorry you did. There, now don’t you feel better?) The Golden Garter will become the highlight of your vacation, I guarantee it, or my name isn’t Phineas T. Pendergast! (Come to think of it, my name isn’t Phineas T. Pendergast! But come anyway, you know you want to! That’s Phineas T. on the right).      

The Golden Garter Theatre and Magical Melodrama’s “100^th Anniversary” 2008 season begins Friday night, May 23^rd and plays off and on throughout the whole summer (it’s hard to get consistent help these days), ending with our famous closing night show and party on Saturday night, September 20^th (see exact dates that aren’t sold out on our “Schedule” page). All you have to do is buy your tickets and show up! (But warm up your funny bone before you come – we don’t want you to strain anything!) We’ll do our job by making sure you leave the evening looking younger, feeling lighter, lifting your IQ and even going home in a more stylish & valuable horse and buggy! (not really).

NOTE: "The Magical Melodrama" has ended its' run for this season. Look for it to return bigger and better during our 2009 season. Dates & Location to be announced!

For more information, visit us online at www.GoldenGarter.com

“I laughed ‘til my cheeks hurt!” – Sue Coats, Battle Ground, WA (notice Sue didn’t tell us which cheeks!)