The Tred Avon Player’s musical comedy “The Big Bang” by Jed Feurer and Boyd Graham, and directed by Tim Weigand, is set to open August 12, at the Historical Society of Talbot County Auditorium. 
This hilarious show was conceived one evening in 1993, when co-author, Graham mentioned to Feurer, “Ya know, we really oughta write something for ourselves to perform. I didn’t really mean it, but I sort of did.” The original production entitled “Free Food & Frontal Nudity” starring Fuerer and Graham premièred at the PSI Theatre at the Durham Arts Council in Durham, North Carolina to rave reviews in 1997. However, critics disliked the original title and in 2000, “The Big Bang” opened in New York City at the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre.
The original, performed by the two authors was written in every conceivable genre portraying almost every person, plus a few animals, who had ever lived in this entire history of the world from the big bang to present day. These two authors want to entice investors, which is the audience, into backing their new musical, “The Big Bang.”. Their ideal production will feature a cast of hundreds, thousands of costumes and 302 prosthetic devices. It would be twelve hours in length, over four evenings, and is budgeted at $83.5 million. However, not having a budget to support this mega production, the two performers are forced to act out this backer’s audition themselves improvising costumes, sets, and props found in a borrowed apartment in Manhattan.
The Tred Avon Players production features the two would-be producers portrayed by Cavin Moore and CeCe Davis. They sing, dance, act out, and trash a posh apartment hoping to sell their play to the audience. Presenting the history of the world from the Garden of Eden to the present, portraying Adam and Eve, Caesar and Cleopatra, Nefertiti, Jimi Hendrix, Minnehaha, Julius Caesar, Leo (a Christian-eating lion), Napoleon, Josephine, the Virgin Mary, Shanghai Lil, Christopher Columbus, Mohandas Gandhi’s mother, Attila the Hun, Adam, Eve, Tokyo Rose, Queen Isabella, Pocahontas, Janis Joplin, and Eva Braun. Truely the proverbial kitchen sink. All this hilarious comedy enhanced by wonderful songs is not to be missed.
Call for information and reservations at 410-226-0061 or visit www.tredavonplayers.org
August 12-14, 18-21, 26-28
Friday & Saturday Shows, 8pm
Sunday Shows 4pm
Adults $15 Students with ID $5
Thrifty Thursday is August 18 at 7PM,
with tickets two-for-one or $10 for singles
Historical Society of Talbot County Auditorium
17 South Washington Street, Easton, MD.
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