By Tom McKinney
On the night of December 16, 1992 most of Mini-School met at Perkins for a night of laughs. We were off to Dudley Riggs Brave New Workshop. The group consisted of Brandon “Vito” Marcacinni, Brian “Youngun” Nelson, Tiffany Penbera, Terry Vincent, Jesse Walker, Stacey Vetvick, Joshua Stinson, Josh Rockstad, Chris “Glowman” Glowaski, Jessica Boerboom, Pat Cretan, Matt “Meatball” Richard, Tony Bernatz, Simone Wintheiser, Alina Barr, and myself. The staff that went were Doug Berg, Randy Nelson, Joanne Storlie, Lester Hughes-Seamans, Joe Komerak and his girlfriend. After everyone got to Perkins we piled into the vehicles and headed for Dudley Riggs. The ride there was quite exciting. Doug was racing through yellow lights and losing everyone on the way there. Luckily, everyone knew how to get there.
We arrived about 15 minutes early. Doug passed out all our tickets and about the time he finished, it was time to be seated. The seating arrangement we had had to be changed around for Joanne’s sake. She couldn’t see over Randy. Before we knew it it was show time. The name of the show was “Holiday on Nice, It’s Not a Christmas Carol.”
The show had five actors, 3 men and 2 women, and they all played more than one part. The types of shows Dudley Riggs performs are short satirical skits. One of the skits they performed was about a family at Christmas time and the daughter came home for Christmas dinner, but she had to prepare it. The daughter’s type of dinner for Christmas was Fettuccini Alfredo instead of the usual turkey dinner. The mother was furious. The show was hilarious and I would recommend anyone to go and see it. Age makes no difference. Everyone would find it funny.