Wheeler Theatre Presents Young Frankenstein
Join Wheeler High School Theatre as they embrace the hilarity of Mel Brooks’ musical comedy – Young Frankenstein. Performances will take place on Oct. 24-26 at 7 p.m. and Oct. 27 at 2 p.m. in the Wheeler Performance Arts Center. Based on the 1974 Mel Brooks film of the same name, Young Frankenstein is a musical comedy created by Brooks and Thomas Meehan. It follows the story of Frederick Frankenstein,...
Don’t Forget That the ‘South Park’/‘Family Guy’ Feud Is One Big Battle of the Theater Kids
It’s a well-established fact that the respective creators of South Park and Family Guy hate each other, and that’s to be expected — theater geeks just love drama. The animated comedy community is rife with rivalries, and some are much friendlier than others. Ever since the Golden Age of Warner Bros. and Disney, the cartoon business has always had a healthy spirit of competition between the power players that can occasionally spill over into ugly acrimony — like how Seth MacFarlane responded to a Simpsons gag about Peter Griffin being a clone of Homer by having Quagmire straight up sexually assault Marge and murder her family. However, MacFarlane’s most heated and most personal feud somehow isn’t with the predecessor series to which his Family Guy is so often compared, but with the outspoken creative duo of Trey Parker and Matt Stone who made their feelings about MacFarlane’s work perfectly clear in the classic two-part South Park episode “Cartoon Wars.”