WELCOME TO THIS
SIDE OF THE TRACKS
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
opens at th Cameo

By DEBI PFITZENMAIER
Photography Courtesy CAMEO THEATRE

t’s time to pull up a lawn chair and join the rollicking fun at the Great American Trailer Park Musical, the latest off-
Broadway comedy to grace the stage at San Antonio’s Cameo Theatre. The show, which made its New York debut in 2005, began touring the United States in September. The San Antonio show opens Nov. 8.

As you take your seats, you’ll be welcomed into the world of Armadillo Acres, the most exclusive manufactured housing subdivision in North Florida. OK, it’s really a seedy trailer park. An unlikely setting for a musical — but it works.

Written by sketch comedy writer and improv actor Betsy Kelso, the show unabashedly takes on such issues as love triangles, infidelity, teen pregnancy, spray cheese snack recipes and bad perms — all with the heart and soul of a Jerry Springer/Sally Jesse Raphael talk show.

But rather than mock all the colorful characters and their hare-brained antics, the musical — in spite of its wickedly clever one-liners and lyrics — generously embraces them and draws you into this delightfully crazy group of down home folks. It’s light and cheeky, but filled with all kinds of stuff you can sink your teeth into … if you can stop laughing.

This trailer trash is definitely full of treasures.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Warning: This musical contains tacky outfits, bad wigs, crude language, adultery, road kill, pole dancing and disco. Leave the little ones at home.

Cameo Theatre, 1123 East Commerce in St. Paul Square
Nov. 8 – Dec. 31
Show times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday
and 2 p.m. Sunday
Box office: (210) 212-5454

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