Laugh your stretchy pants off: New show at Stage West is straight up funny
Posted Feb 13, 2025 4:19 pm.
Sometimes theatre is dramatic, brooding, full of deeper messages.
But this play, is not that.
Too Many Cooks by Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes runs at Stage West through to Apr. 13, and it is a straight up laugh fest from beginning to end.
It is 1932, and opening day for ‘Le Chateau Bubbalowe,’ a newly renovated restaurant in Niagara Falls, Ont. Proprieter Mr. Bubbalowe is supposed to have the best day of his life, when it very quickly becomes the worst.
The pace is fast in this show. Picture that ubiquitous Scooby-Doo scene where the gang and ghosts are all running in and out of doorways chasing each other in a long hallway.
The comedy is easy funny. Picture a Steve Martin film like The Jerk.
And, apt for this climate, it is also quintessentially Canadian. Some of the characters are American and there is much cross border banter.
Lead Actor Mark Weatherley said audiences are really finding new humour in it, there is one line in particular, “oh, it’s so good that we can count on our American cousins,” it gets the biggest laugh in the show!
It’s not even a comedy line, it’s just that everybody is kind of like “oh yeah, that is pretty much what is going on these days.”
Ticket information can be found here.
