Go, Dog. Go! is the most fun-packed, side-splittingly funny
hour of entertainment in all of Nashville!
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| Josh Bernaski in NCT's Go, Dog. Go! |
The first time NCT did this show I played MC Dog in all but four performances, where Patrick Waller heroically stepped in for me while I attended the birth of my first son. I could not be more pleased and giddily excited to now be directing this tremendously funny show just at the time that my son is old enough to get all of the jokes.
Rarely have I had as much fun as I've had in working on this show. The staff and crew at NCT are always tremendous and this cast is absolutely phenomenal! To top it off, the playwrights have succeeded in creating the most clever and imaginative adaptation of a book for the theatre I have ever seen.
P.D. Eastman’s original book is a favorite in my house. The humor in the book comes from seeing the action and interaction of some highly mobile dogs doing very human things, all the while inviting the reader to notice the deeper significance of small thing.
The playwrights have honored the elements of the book to the point that they chose to stick to the few words that appear in the book. The result is an astounding homage to circus, to delight, and to surprise right through the very end.
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| Peter Vann, director |
The magic of this play is that it successfully makes an audience, (I'm seriously talking ages 4-104), literally bust a gut laughing within the first 45 seconds of the show, and then has the relentless ability to sustain that feeling of breathless awe and uncontrollable laughter until the very last second of the show. It is truly astounding.
This is the perfect play for introducing the young people in your life to the fun of the theatre, and for the young person in the rest of us to come out and play.
