'Lines A la Mode', featuring Acting With the Stars at Portage Yacht Club

As always, with Mixed Company Troupe, every act stars an audience volunteer set opposite professional actors. Think of it as "Acting with the Stars". Using Mission Impossible style technology, the show's director keeps each volunteer on track for a celebrated performance. Fed lines and cues via wireless earbud, the director is in your ear for each bang and bump of the script's plot twists and turns. This all-new show makes a perfect Valentines Day gift, with stories that zero in on relationships.

Act One, Brother Husbands, places our volunteer's character opposite a pompous business man and his feisty, cougar-like wife. Testing the bounds of marital relations, this show plays with a theme that Valentine's Day cards haven't even begun to explore. But place a powerful wife in charge of a man's life and sparks will fly!

Act Two, "Flight of the Cigar", offers up a therapist who has too much fun with her job. Though Danny (the 2nd volunteer), seeks help with regard to his brother's reckless quest for love, what he gets is songs and dance--all inspired by his brother's travails. Are we feeling better yet?

Act Three closes with, "The Stranger's Joystick." Here you meet Larry Crichton, an air traffic controller who thinks he's found the perfect solution to reconciling the polar opposites of sex and the workplace. In his mind, anyhow, this plan for seduction is sure to fire on all four cylinders. Yeah right! But speaking of "joysticks," are we talking euphemisms here? Come to find out.