That Great & Dreadful Day-Tall Tales From The American Swamp

June 1, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hollywood, CA

Opening 1st Hollywood Fringe Festival at Fringe Central (Theatre of Art) June 18-20, then Stella Alder Theatre June 21 & 24 8pm, finally Comedy Sportz June 26-27.

The Black Tongued Bells & Jack E. Curenton Presents:
“That Great and Dreadful Day-Tall Tales from the American Swamp”

This all acoustic “Swamp Operetta” is a play in the musical theatre variety. The “Tall Tale” is centered on the life experiences of the Blues Musician, Laurence Douglas Miner and his small group of cohorts as spun in the first person by the “Storyteller” in the Here & Now.

Staged on a sharecropper’s cabin during Depression-era Louisiana continuing through the War Years and into the 1960’s, the tales are told and the original songs are sung by a cast of seven in period costume who play out the “Tale” with their dialogue from the There &amp...