Feels like dinner theater.
Sounds like a house concert.
Looks like improv comedy.
“The audience roared and cackled with laughter between the verses.”
Mikey Kehr, Candice Ivory and Jaime Aiden Green, with special guests Emma Hill, Kat Moore, and Yngvil Vatn Guttu at Bear Tooth THeatrepub Anchorage, AK
The Show
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The Mountain State has its Stage and the Tiny Desk, its Concerts. This event season Alaskans will gather at Parlor In The Round. Borrowing from the guitar pull tradition of porches and campfires, songwriters from all walks of Alaskan life (and some beyond) will trade songs and stories as they are inspired by each other.
After the intermission, tradition is cast aside as the musicians dive into collaborations, jocular inventions and premeditated musings all based on written submissions from the audience.
Kevin Worrell hosts this dinner theater, drawing out the strength and vulnerability of each artist while holding the crowd closely throughout the performance. The theater transforms into a candle lit dining room and a hush falls over the crowd. Expect to lean in and laugh out loud at the Parlor.
Cast
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Kevin Worrell
Host / Producer
Michele Wasson
Assistant Producer
Bennett Hilsgen, Jamie Aiden Green
Sound and Recording Engineer
Charles Earnshaw
Photography
Selma Casagranda
Marketing Intern
Michele Wasson, Jamie Whiteman, Kevin Worrell
WellRounded Arts Board
Parlor in the Round is presented by WellRounded Arts
We develop arts programing that engages performing artists in collaborations with the intention of pushing past creative limits. We produce performances that enlist the audience as participants in the creative process. We use performing arts to create vulnerable spaces. There, we commit daring acts of creativity.