Hisseli Harikalar Kumpanyasi: The Joint Venture Company of Wonders!
June 13, 2009 at Beacon Theatre
It used to be a journey on the road for our friends at the Hisseli Harikalar tent, a very tiresome and hopeless one by all means. Dusty villages, stinky hotel rooms, yucky food, weird audiences, and the road seems like an eternity, the utmost desperation. Yet all the joys and adventures of an adorable family of circus/slash/music performers and their everyday wonders under the infamous tent. The road comes to a sharp turn when the beautiful songstress decides to pursue her dreams in the big city, leaving the lead singer guy, her love, behind. Meanwhile, the production assistant and his ongoing engagement with the belly dancer get into trouble with a local landowner, master of his village.
With all the creativity of the tent's boss, the play will take you through a comedy of errors, chaos, cross-dressing, marriages, breakups, reunions, all the bells and whistles of real life drama! (just an expression, it's actually comedy at it's best. Witness the transformation from the forgotten village fields of Anatolia all the way to the dazzling lights of Broadway. Needless to say, you are in for a musical feast, a modernized classic offering from Turkey.. As the song goes, "...the latest tunes, brightest celebrities, fearless acrobats, and then some ... Curtain call for The Joint Venture Company of Wonders!"
