Much like they've done with The Golden Girls, Sex and the City, Designing Women, Star Trek, and Absolutely Fabulous over the years, San Francisco's more comedic drag queens are for the first time taking on a classic of 1970s American TV, Three's Company. Directed by D'Arcy Drollinger and featuring D'Arcy as Chrissy, Heklina as Janet, and drag-TV-reenactment vet Matthew Martin as Mrs. Roper, the gang will begin performances of Three's Company Live next Thursday, February 25. The run at Oasis goes for four consecutive weekends, with shows Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m., through March 19.
As D'Arcy tells Left Magazine, "On some levels Three’s Company is like a time capsule. The concept of it being so outrageous to have men and women living together seems ludicrous today. But so does the broad physicality the actors brought to it. They are essentially all clowns."
If you've somehow managed to live life without ever seeing an episode of the show, it's a broad domestic farce based on the simple premise that Jack Tripper, who's becomes a roommate in a two-bedroom Santa Monica apartment with two young women out of financial necessity, has to pretend for the landlord that he's gay in order to make this living arrangement socially acceptable. He's also quite the ladies' man, thus much farcical hilarity ensues.
The production also stars Adam Roy as Jack, Sara Moore as Mr. Roper, and Laurie Bushman.
And if you want to compare the above with the original-original opening credits from Three's Company, those are below.
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