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WCU to host ‘An Evening with Groucho’ at new arts center
The inaugural season of the Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University will continue at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, with “An Evening With Groucho.”
Award-winning actor, director and playwright Frank Ferrante portrays legendary comedian Groucho Marx in a stand-up comedy and musical montage performance that The Hollywood Reporter called “a truly delightful show.”
Ferrante has been impersonating Marx since the mid 1970s in performances such as “Groucho: A Life in Revue,” “Animal Crackers” and the Broadway revival of “The Cocoanuts.” The New York Times called him “the greatest living interpreter of Groucho Marx’s material.”
The inaugural season of the Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University will continue at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, with “An Evening With Groucho.” Award-winning actor, director and playwright Frank Ferrante portrays legendary comedian Groucho Marx in a stand-up comedy and musical montage performance that The Hollywood Reporter called “a truly delightful show.”
Ferrante also has starred in “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” “By George,” “Perfect Wedding,” “The Odd Couple,” “Anything Goes” and many more.
His theater directing credits include “George Washington Slept Here,” the Pulitzer finalist “Old Wicked Songs” and “Groucho: A Life in Revue,” for which he won the New York Theater World Award for his role in 1987.
Ferrante and Jim Williamson co-founded Comedia Creative Group, the production force behind “Groucho: A Life in Review,” a program that aired on more than 200 PBS stations and was released on video.
Tickets for “An Evening with Groucho” are $20 for adults, $17 for senior citizens 60 and older, $9 for children ages 3-17 and $5 for Western students. Group rates also are available.
Also coming soon to the Fine and Performing Arts Center:
Sunday, Feb. 12 – The Von Trapp Children, featuring descendants of the famous singing family from “The Sound of Music,” 3 p.m.
Thursday, March 2 – Illusionist/Extraordinist Craig Karges, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 31 – “The Piano Men,” the music of Billy Joel and Elton John, by Jim Witter, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 30 – Luna, a techno-circus that uses the dark as a canvas and light as the brush to paint a story of how light occurs to humanity, 3 p.m.
For more information, call the box office at 227-2479 or visit http://fapac.wcu.edu/.
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