Frankenstein at Salty Dinner Theater--Happy Birthday to Me!

I had the great fortune to review Salty Dinner Theater's Romeo and Juliet--Choose Your Own Adventure last February. Here is the review: http://utahtheaterbloggers.com/4240/rj-by-salty-dinner-theatre-a-patrons-perspective/
Here is the link to the theater company: http://www.saltydinnertheater.com/
That review isn't what I want to talk about in this blog, though. What I want to say is that I made friends with everyone involved with that show--added the various folks as Facebook friends and whatnot. And made a dear friend of the theater company's owner Mary Zullo Brassard. I love her! She has invited us to her various shows since for free, such a sweetie.
We went to see Frankenstein last night. I had invited a variety of friends to come (Mary offered half-price tickets to all my guests--nice!) and 14 came. It was my birthday and that made it even more fun.
We sat at a long table--some friends from Hairspray, some kids who have been coming to our summer game nights, my stepdaughter and her new beau, a woman I worked with years ago, and my boss @ UTBA (http://utahtheaterbloggers.com/) came. Okay, yes, he's my boss. I've worked as a UTBA reviewer for almost a year. BUT I've never met my boss in person til he was sitting at my table. I hugged him, thrilled to have another person at our crazy table.
The show was hilarious. Our table was maniacally funny. Caden was asked to be the character William, who gets killed. Caden apparently does a great death scene since this was his second gig for Salty Dinner Theater. Mary, who is Igor in the show, gave us special attention, it seemed, and we loved it.
My Hairspray friends were loud, hysterically funny, and awesome. My stepdaughter's beau had never met us before. I hope they're still dating. My friends were nutty. Um, I was, too.
I love this dinner theater company. I love the original scripts, yes, and the quality of actors in the shows, yes. But they have the improv necessary for this kind of intense interaction with the guests down perfectly. They glide along, kicking the play into high gear, but if there is any glitch or change caused by a patron watching the show, these awesome actors just play along. (Slight pun. Get over it.)
Mary said she'd like us to be in one of her productions. I hope we can do this. I asked Caden if he could handle the improv nature of this. At first he said he didn't know. But then he said, "Well, I don't need to be okay with it. My character does. So yeah, I could do it." Good answer.
I feel super blessed for the fun night I had with Mary and her crew. There are few things as fun as actually performing onstage, but being able to see great theater with great friends is right up there.
Keep Playing!