And now for something completely different: Santaland Diaries at The Showroom

This is our fourth year of our partnership with Hub-bub and The Showroom and an encore performance of last year’s The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, featuring, at least according to the poster, me.  Oh and I bought fresh tights for this one, so you better come.

SLT’s NextStages program is intended to provide a lower-cost edgier alternative to our mainstage season fare.  And The Santaland Diaries provides just that little bit of snarky edge we’re all feeling during the holidays, but that we hesitate to explore for fear of being seen as “unholiday-like”.  It does have some rough language, although it’s nowhere near as racy as The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, that we did a few years ago.  Just in case, leave the kids at home.  Well unless you don’t care of your kids hear the f-word.  Most do.

Here’s the official press release on the show.  Oh yeah and it runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 pm at The Showroom at Hub-bub and tickets are $10.

Okay, official stuff:

The Santaland Diaries
Thursday-Saturday, December 10th -12th  at 8pm   
Tickets: $10 advance/door
For Mature Audiences Only
For those who like a little spice with their Christmas sugar, this hilarious one-person play chronicles a man's experience working as an elf in Macy's Santaland. David Sedaris is a genuine American voice--witty, sardonic and unpredictable, mercilessly cutting through the Christmas spirit to point out what crazy things we do as human beings during the holidays.
NPR humorist and best-selling author David Sedaris made his comic debut reading his "Santaland Diaries" on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. Sedaris' sardonic humor and incisive social critique have since made him one of NPR's most popular and humorous commentators. He is the author of the bestsellers Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day. Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have written several plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. In 2001, David Sedaris became the third recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and was named by Time magazine as "Humorist of the Year."
Actor Jay Coffman stars as Crumpet, the wickedly funny Macy's Elf. Coffman is a fixture on the Upstate theatre circuit working both in the spotlight and behind the scenes. He has performed in many plays in the Spartanburg area and is currently the Interim Executive Artistic Director for the Spartanburg Little Theatre. He is no stranger to the stage at The Showroom, this is an encore performance of the Santaland Diaries and Jay also performed in the role of Cupid in sold out performances of The Reindeer Monologues for two years.
“A delightfully thorny account of working as a Yuletide elf at Macy’s. Priceless observations, both outrageous and subtle. Destined to hold a place in the annals of American humor writing.” -New York Times