London Frontier Theatre of Magdalena
presents
THE BALLAD OF BABE & BEAU
Back by Popular Demand
Reviewed as, “a splendid multimedia production in which film, sound and acting all meld together to further the poignant story”, BABE & BEAU tells the tale of two aging outlaws who return to No Springs, NM, the roaring cowtown they remember from their heyday in the 1890's, to find it’s now – 1919 – a dusty remnant of its rowdy past. But Babe and Beau have almost 30 years of living to make up, and neither law nor time has “tamed and tidied” the larger-than-life, dare-anything pair.
BABE & BEAU takes a humorous and penetrating look at what creates legends (“what we wanted to be – or do – and weren’t, or didn’t”) and the truth about aging. (As the retired local madam says – with a knowing smile – “If you’re old; they think you can’t sin any mor)
A mock holdup of an automobile by a mounted bandit is to be part of the town’s first annual “Outlaw Days” celebration. But complexities of modern life and a yen for a “last hurrah” tempt even the dour local sheriff to attempt something more “authentic.”
Video interweaves with stage action, carrying audiences on a journey back to a time when life and landscape seemed to stretch endlessly in an epic adventure. (Review: “The films evoke the times and the town and the West. The Second Act horse–and–car chase is positively brilliant.”)
Period music, performed by Mont L. Laster and Friends and recorded for radio shows (circa 1955) in Clarksville, Arkansas, shifts the mood from lively to sentimental, country to ragtime to waltz.
BABE & BEAU is a “Romance of the Old West”, a story of the eternal love of life, adventure and each other that we all yearn for and a few “outlaws” seek to create.
Performances are Friday, October 23rd and Saturday, October 24th, both at 7:00 PM, with a matinee on Sunday, October 25th at 2:00 PM., at Magdalena’s historic WPA Theatre, Main at Fourth. Tickets are $5.00, available at the door an hour before performance, and by Reservation (advised) at (575) 854-2519, londonfrontier@gilanet.com ; further info at www.londonfrontiertheatre.com.
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