The part-comic, part-concert “Great Women of Country Music” sold out most of its shows last week, and an additional one was added. So, if the added show May 23 is close to full, who’s to say organizer Naomi Fleetwood-Pyle won’t add another at Willow Leaves of Hope, 326 Jackson St. in Hope? (Yes, she and others have done such before with productions such as “Steel Magnolias.”) This show highlights Lisa Barrett and Fleetwood-Pyle singing country classics of such stars as The Judds, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and just about any other female country artist you’ve loved since the 1970s. Information and reservations: 812-546-0640.
More on sellouts: A previous Jeff Bodart comedy show filled planned seating quickly at Columbus’ Fourth Street Bar & Grill, so organizers added another at 7 p.m. today at the venue at 433 Fourth St. Bodart, a Columbus resident that’s a regular on “The Bob and Tom Show,” always has solid, new material and Columbus resident Robert Hay-Smith, a dry-witted, unorthodox storyteller, opens. Either of them alone are more than worth the $10 admission. William McKenzie is the feature performer. Information and reservations: 812-376-7063.
Hoping this is not yet a sellout for your sakes, at 6 p.m. Friday at Willow Leaves of Hope, but if it is perhaps you could pray to get a ticket to Tommy and John Thomas Oaks’ dinner theater, comic musical “Star Queen,” based upon Scripture’s Book of Esther and set as a pageant spoof. If you’ve never seen the father-son duo perform, well, you’re missing out on laughs of a Biblical proportion. The pair from Knoxville, Tennessee, has performed the show all over Columbus for some 15 years, and all over the country as well. Information and reservations: 812-546-0640.
Brian Blair is a Republic reporter. He can be reached at 379-5672 or bblair@therepublic.com.
