The Boiling Point Players are feeling lucky, and they want you to feel lucky, too, so much so that their upcoming cabaret, Get Lucky, is centered around the concept.
Boiling Point Players co-founder Melanie Martin said the one-night-only performance was inspired by St. Patrick’s Day. Symbols for the holiday include such harbingers of good luck as the leprechaun and the four-leaf clover. “We thought it was a cute twist,” said Martin.
She assured us, however, that the “cabaret is not going to be all leprechauns.” Get Lucky’s lineup includes four original short plays, songs and entertainment by the two-person long-form improv group Ophelia’s Rope. Singers for the evening include Katy Burns, Autumn Clack, Melanie Martin, Ruth McCleskey, Amy Pope and a surprise special guest. Lori King Brown emcees.
The new theater company is committed to producing fun, female-centered stories. To make sure the show focuses on the luck of ladies, the theater company put out a call for female-driven original plays. After receiving 280 submissions from all over the world, including South Korea, company members whittled the selection down to four. Each original play will deal with some form of luck. Martin said coyly, “There are a lot of ways to get lucky.”
Irene L. Pynn’s The Train features romance on a subway car. Stacey Lane’s Scratched tells the tale of a lost lottery ticket. The lead character in Chris Shaw Swanson’s People Like Us, Julie, believes compatibility is made by ennui and prosthetic body parts. Mark Harvey Levine’s characters receive unfortunate news in his aptly titled Misfortune.
Martin was tight-lipped about the song selection for the night. “The surprise is part of the fun.” But what she did reveal is as auspicious as the cabaret. “You’ll definitely have a good time and see some unique theater.”
8:30 p.m. Rudyard’s British Pub, 2010 Waugh. For information, call 832-303-1578 or visit boilingpointplayers.com. 21 and up. $10.
Thu., March 19, 8:30 p.m., 2015
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2015.
