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Hip Shot: Jack the Ticket Ripper
Jack the Ticket Ripper
The Goethe Gallery
Remaining performances: July 18 6:00, 19 2:30
They say: Jack the ticket-taker has never missed a performance in 25 years. When his job is threatened Jack refuses to be downsized. A hilarious revenge comedy that will have you asking “Who will Jack off next?”
Joan says: Living is easy, comedy is hard, comedy about slaughtering your coworkers is magnificent.
I have a theory that playwright John Morogiello went to see Sweeney Todd and said to himself afterwards, “What this show really needs is some laughs”. How right he was! Jack (delightfully played by Jim Gagne) is a pompous usher. You don’t like him, but you have to love his boyish enthusiasm for murdering his equally pretentious coworkers. Each slaying has a surreal sort of Hannibal Lecter-meets-Elmer Fudd quality to it. You scream both in horror and delight—and you laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
