Center Stage's 51st Season Underway

Anyone in Baltimore who says “I’m bored” is walking around with his eyes closed.  On any given day, in major entertainment sites such as Hard Rock Café, and the Baltimore Arena to local school auditoriums, you’ll find something going on. The trouble is finding something to do---it’s choosing what to do.

This blog is dedicated to letting you know about entertainment and events for the upcoming weeks so you can make the most of your time when you get that coveted day off.

Animal Crackers, Center Stage, through Oct. 3.

If you haven’t caught Animal Crackers at Centre Stage’s, you have a few more days.

Classics are great comfort food, and after a tough week a zany classic is all the better. The Marx Brothers’ Animal Crackers kicks off Center Stage’s 51st season. It doesn’t matter how you’re dressed when you walk in; the fashion accessory you’ll be needing is a pair of Groucho Marx (big nose and mustache) glasses.

Most of the humor is purely inane, so if you’re looking for highbrow entertainment, look elsewhere. This is laugh-out-loud humor. And it’s interactive, so don’t be surprised if the lecherous Harpo eyes you up in the audience. Even the orchestra is in on the hijinx.

While it’s a classic, look for fresh news lines and local references worked into the dialogue.

Bruce Nelson steals the show Groucho.  His brothers on stage Brad Aldous (Harpo) and Jonathan Brody (Chico) came to the Center Stage production from another production of Animal Crackers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

If you can’t make it to Center Stage for Animal Crackers, look for “dance of the holy ghosts” which opens October 16 . The show runs through November 17.

In dance of the holy ghosts, Oscar Clifton is a Blues man who exists on his memories. Then his estranged grandson Marcus shows up and Oscar starts to live life again.

Tickets start at $19. For more information call 410-332-0033 or visit the Center Stage website at www.centerstage.org.