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A Teenager's Guide to Love

Presented by Weird City Theatre at Dougherty Arts Center

May 5-May 21, 2011

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Weird City Theatre Company announces the world premiere of A Teenagers Guide to Love written & directed by WCT Managing Director, Patti Neff-Tiven. A Teenagers Guide is a musical parody of 50's – 60's educational films- How Do You Choose a Date? How Much Affection? Who Wrote the Book of Love? These questions and more will be explored in an evening of kitschy, song-filled fun Our trusty Narrator, John F. Carroll guides us through the romantic pitfalls of our teen couple played by Sarah Griffin-Covey and Justin Hampton. With WCT company members Kevin Gouldthorpe, Jenni Bauer, Bethany Harbaugh & Robert Berry. The band includes Seth Tiven (guitarist- Dumptruck, Promise Breakers), Justin Bankston (bassist- Promise Breakers, The Paper South) and Donnie Poston (drummer- Dumptruck, Dunebuggy)

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    Dougherty Arts Center

    1110 Barton Springs Road
    Austin, TX 78704

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    Thursday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” at the door. For all other performances, tickets are $15.00 for adults and $12.00 for children, seniors and students (with ID), and group rates are available. Advanced tickets can be purchased at our website.

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    May 5-May 21, 2011

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    Performances are Thursday through Saturday nights at 8:00PM.

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    • Event Name: A Teenager's Guide to Love
      "You may have noticed some changes."
      Review posted by: Jay Y. from Austin, TX, May 07, 2011
      

      In the wake of politically-charged public debates about how sex education should be taught in the schools, Weird City Theatre's latest production, "A Teenager's Guide to Love" is a welcome breather... Expand

      In the wake of politically-charged public debates about how sex education should be taught in the schools, Weird City Theatre's latest production, "A Teenager's Guide to Love" is a welcome breather from the rancor and nonsense that envelops said debates. It lampoons the sanitized 1950s sex education films that were commonly shown in public high schools- and with musical numbers! I particularly appreciated how Teenager's Guide simultaneously deconstructs and satirizes the 1950s while showing affection for that culture. Sarah Griffin-Covey is excellent as the female romantic lead, Mary. John Carroll did a great job in putting together a 50s-style short film with his actors that was used as part of the production. The band more often than not overpowered the singers in the musical numbers, and the singing itself was unfortunately inconsistent. Having said that, Teenager's Guide is another enjoyable production from Weird City, and well worth checking out for some Spring entertainment. Collapse

    • Event Name: A Teenager's Guide to Love
      "Charmed and Amused"
      Review posted by: Stephen from Austin, TX, May 07, 2011
      

      You can always count on Weird City Theatre to not give you what you had just seen them do before even if they often have most of the same actors in their productions. I love seeing range and many... Expand

      You can always count on Weird City Theatre to not give you what you had just seen them do before even if they often have most of the same actors in their productions. I love seeing range and many illustrate that in this play. Kevin Gouldthorpe, Bethany Harbaugh and Sarah Griffin-Covey sold the 50s/60s. The play is a musical parody of the educational films that my parents watched and my generation - old generation X got to see some variation of. I found the musical range of John Carroll, Robert Berry and especially Sarah Griffin-Covey enjoyable and almost always on beat. I liked the band that was backing the actors but at times the singing got lost due to the band being just louder. The film strips sometimes shown in background were often my biggest laughs. The dating dos and don't being carried out so something I wish we had in real life. The play offered a version of a time long passed but remnants still exist. Care and trying to see the right and wrong of teenage exploration. Bravo. Collapse

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    • Event Name: A Teenager's Guide to Love
      "You may have noticed some changes."
      Review posted by: Jay Y. from Austin, TX, May 07, 2011
      

      In the wake of politically-charged public debates about how sex education should be taught in the schools, Weird City Theatre's latest production, "A Teenager's Guide to Love" is a welcome breather... Expand

      In the wake of politically-charged public debates about how sex education should be taught in the schools, Weird City Theatre's latest production, "A Teenager's Guide to Love" is a welcome breather from the rancor and nonsense that envelops said debates. It lampoons the sanitized 1950s sex education films that were commonly shown in public high schools- and with musical numbers! I particularly appreciated how Teenager's Guide simultaneously deconstructs and satirizes the 1950s while showing affection for that culture. Sarah Griffin-Covey is excellent as the female romantic lead, Mary. John Carroll did a great job in putting together a 50s-style short film with his actors that was used as part of the production. The band more often than not overpowered the singers in the musical numbers, and the singing itself was unfortunately inconsistent. Having said that, Teenager's Guide is another enjoyable production from Weird City, and well worth checking out for some Spring entertainment. Collapse

    • Event Name: A Teenager's Guide to Love
      "Charmed and Amused"
      Review posted by: Stephen from Austin, TX, May 07, 2011
      

      You can always count on Weird City Theatre to not give you what you had just seen them do before even if they often have most of the same actors in their productions. I love seeing range and many... Expand

      You can always count on Weird City Theatre to not give you what you had just seen them do before even if they often have most of the same actors in their productions. I love seeing range and many illustrate that in this play. Kevin Gouldthorpe, Bethany Harbaugh and Sarah Griffin-Covey sold the 50s/60s. The play is a musical parody of the educational films that my parents watched and my generation - old generation X got to see some variation of. I found the musical range of John Carroll, Robert Berry and especially Sarah Griffin-Covey enjoyable and almost always on beat. I liked the band that was backing the actors but at times the singing got lost due to the band being just louder. The film strips sometimes shown in background were often my biggest laughs. The dating dos and don't being carried out so something I wish we had in real life. The play offered a version of a time long passed but remnants still exist. Care and trying to see the right and wrong of teenage exploration. Bravo. Collapse

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