PFP presents Dim Sum! The Musical!

It ain’t a musical...it ain’t even a good facsimile...

But Seattle’s multicultural sketch comedy group, the Pork Filled Players (PFP), still calls their show Dim Sum! The Musical!, a collection of new sketches and songs, playing late night at Seattle’s Theatre Off Jackson (409 7th Ave. S.), Oct. 27 to Nov. 19, 2000.

PFP takes a parodistic blow torch to Broadway standards by Cole Porter (Brush Up Your Dim Sum), Lerner & Lowe (I Remember it Well, Kai Doi), Grease’s Jacobs & Casey (Steamed Dumpling) and Kander & Ebb (Willkommen to Das Dim Sum), while explaining the mysteries of Chinese dim sum, with characters such as the mystical Dim Sum Master at places like the Hawaiian spelling bee.

Media reviewers who write a review of this show will get treated to free dim sum from PFP. Despite this outrageous bribery, PFP remain as Artists In Residence at the Northwest Asian American Theatre.

Dim Sum! plays at 10:30 pm Fridays and Saturdays and 4:30 pm Sundays (after shows by the Repertory Actors Theatre and dance recitals by NWAAT). Tickets are $8 general, $6 for students/seniors, $5 groups. Info and reservations can be made by calling 206/365-0282 (At least NWAAT has the good sense not to take ticket reservations).

Making their debut with PFP are Seung Yon Lee, Kristina Musailov and Marinel de Jesus. They join co-founder/producer/writer Roger Tang ("godfather of Asian American theatre"), director Cyndie Mastel-Rokicki and PFP veterans David Kobayashi, Eric de los Santos, KC Dupps, Tamara Johnson and Daren Wade and choreographer Wendy Chinn.

People who attend Repertory Actors Theatre's fall productions (Love Letters, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown or Miss Minidoka 1943) can receive a $2 discount on tickets for Dim Sum!

The Pork Filled Players is Seattle's closest approximation to a multicultural/multi-ethnic/multi-you-name-it comedy group. PFP creates original sketch comedy that explores underexamined viewpoints and characters so that EVERYONE gets the joke, celebrating the similarities and differences between groups.

Using madcap (though not necessarily zany) material, the Players aim pointed barbs at sacred cows, the bee’s knees, the cat's meow and other nonporcine material and aspects of modern life, through humor (hopefully funny) and song (hopefully on-key).

The Northwest Asian American Theatre is the premier Asian American theatre in the Northwest, and the second oldest on the continent. Now entering its 27th season, NWAAT's mission is to discover, create, develop and promote exceptional Asian Pacific Islander and international works, emphasizing the original and the innovative. Which doesn’t explain PFP’s position (but those negatives they’re holding just might...).