If you’re an unemployedactor, you might be willing to take any job to pay your rent. David Sedaris found himself in just such a state after landing in NewYork to make his fame and fortune on the stage. He has memorialized the experience in a one-man show “TheSantaland Diaries” playing with jolly holly fun at TheaterWorks of Hartforduntil Sunday, December 23.
While the out –of- work actorhad some standards, (he would not be a French fry or hot dog or taco standingon the street corner handing out leaflets), he found himself willing toconsider an ad for a Christmas elf at Macy’s Department Store, especially afterhis roommate dared him to apply. At thirty-three years of age, his biggest fearwas that he wouldn’t be hired.
Enter Jeff Kready as Crumpetthe reluctant elf who endured the indignities of the application process andthen found himself clad in red, white and green from his sparkling cap to hiscurled velvet toes, complete with candy cane leggings. As an elf with an attitude, he had manycareer opportunities, from entrance to exit elf, bridge elf, runner elf, magicwindow or magic tree elf, photo or island elf. Wherever he landed, he had to deal with grumpy parents andcrying children and impossible to please bosses, not to mention fellow elvesnamed Snowball, Gingerbread, Jingle and even Dreidel.
Kready is alternatelyphilosophical and sarcastic about his seasonal stint with Santa, and the taskof being “relentlessly cheerful” and permanently merry only gives him a headache. His goal of being elected to the Elfin Hall of Fame isprobably a lost cause. Yet late on Christmas Eve, the skepticalCrumpet finds himself in the presence of a Kris Kingle who gives him pause andactually a new perspective on the true meaning of the holiday. Rob Ruggiero directs this Christmastale that is definitely different in its spirit of looking behind the candycanes for what is lurking in the red and green shadows.
For tickets ($30 subscribers,$35 senior matinees, student rush $17, general admission $40-53), callTheaterWorks, 233 Pearl Street, Hartford at 860-527-7838 or online at www.theaterworkshartford.org. Performances are Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with matineesSaturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Lace your eggnog with asplash of rum and let one silly and sarcastic elf bring you some unbridledChristmas cheer.
Photos:http://www.theaterworkshartford.org/Press/Santa/
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