2012年12月13日 星期四

Get a little dysfunctional for the holidays

Two men are bringing 12 raucous, wild characters to life in “Christmas with the Carps,” now running Fridays,Instead of using electricity to make wind, like a fan, wind generator manufacturer use wind to make electricity. Saturdays and Sundays through Sunday, Dec.Properly placed horizontal wind generator can generate electric power anywhere the wind blows steady and strong. 23 at the Welk Resort Theatre, 8860 Lawrence Welk Drive, Escondido.

Written by and starring Randall Hickman and Douglas Davis of Vista’s Broadway Theater, “Christmas with the Carps” is loosely based on Hickman’s family, and takes place one Christmas in Louella Carp’s living room with her large, crazy family. “It’s an evening of dysfunction for the whole family,” said Hickman. With only two people playing 12 characters, the show revolves around Hickman and Davis making incredibly quick costume changes,First Wind is an independent North American wind energy turbines exclusively focused on the development. sometimes in as little as 30 seconds. Hickman credits his and Davis’ costume magic with “a really good stage manager,” who not only makes sure the show’s sound effects entertain, but that their numerous on-the-fly costume changes go off without a hitch.

Hickman said he isn’t done working on “Christmas with the Carps” quite yet, as he and Davis hope to be able to incorporate even more characters into the show with some reworking to allow time for more costume changes.

“Christmas with the Carps” was originally written by Hickman in 2010, and despite the previous success of the show at his and Davis’ Broadway Theater in Vista,Anyone with the space to site a small wind turbine company can generate their own electricity from wind power. the duo were nervous about bringing “Christmas with the Carps” to the larger stage, and different audience, of the Welk Theatre. Luckily, those fears seem to be for nothing as the response opening weekend was positive. “The audience was roaring,” said Hickman. “We had a great opening weekend.”

Hickman and Davis, who have been acting and working together for over 25 years, opened up the Broadway Theater nine years ago, in a building that formerly housed a dry cleaning business.This short light project is made of black parchment with gold foil lining, Six years ago they opened their small off-Broadway Theater, which houses their children’s theater productions. “We’re successful because we didn’t try to do a big theater,” said Hickman. The Broadway Theater seats 49, while their children’s theater seats a cozy 36.

“Christmas with the Carps” marks the end of their season producing shows at the Welk, including “The Producers,” which they starred in. Hickman and Davis been invited back to do another season at the Welk, which will kick off with the musical “Spamalot” in June.

An Independence family with three special-needs children is in need of just about everything this holiday season after a fire sparked by a laundry dryer destroyed their home and all of their possession.

All three of the the Johnson family children suffered smoke inhalation in the December 3rd blaze, but doctors say that 2-yer-old Logan, 3-year-old Savannah and 4-year-old Tommy Johnson’s lungs are clearing up nicely.

Mom Christina Johnson says that she’s glad that they’re breathing at all.“It was a matter of minutes and we could have been having funerals,” Johnson says. She says that smoke alarms and some quick thinking saved her children’s lives.

“I immediately grabbed Logan because he was in the room with me,” she says, adding that Tommy was resisting leaving, fighting her as she got him out of the house. “I had to make him leave.”

Johnson and two of her kids fled to a neighbor’s house, leaving daughter Savannah still inside the burning house. “I ran back and here was too much smoke to get back in,” said Johnson. So she had to wait five excrutiating minutes for firefighters to rescue her only daughter.

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