For our February shindig, we’re going to take in an afternoon at Portland Center Stage for a matinee theater performance.
“But I thought theater was just for those rich and fanciful folks?”
Not so! The show we are seeing is called “The North Plan” and has in its cast one Fredric Lehne, who played Rance Burgess in the Firefly episode “Heart of Gold”. Mr Lehne plays the role of another villian, Dale Pittman. But what is “The North Plan” all about? Per Portland Center State: “After a ruthless cabal seizes power in Washington, Carlton Berg, a bureaucrat for the State Department, runs off with the new regime’s top secret Enemies List. Unfortunately for Carlton, the chase has come to an end in a police station in the Ozark town of Lodus. With a pair of DHS agents on the way, Carlton’s last chance is in the people around him: an unsympathetic police chief, an ambivalent administrative assistant, and fellow prisoner Tanya Shepke, motor-mouthed recidivist and alcohol enthusiast, who appears to have an attention-deficit disorder and thinks Skynyrd should be on the new money. Let the revolution begin.”
The show starts at 2pm, and tickets are $30. We will have a block of seats reserved, so we will all be sitting together.
Please plan to be at the theater by 1:30pm, we will be gathered in the private mezzanine level before the show.
As this is a ticketed show, you must RSVP and confirm that you will absolutely no-doubt about it be there. You can RSVP at our forum or on Facebook.
After the show, we will be moving to the Lucky Lab in NW Portland (1945 NW Quimby) and has easy access from the theater to the pub via the Portland Streetcar for those who will be using public transit. We will be there until everyone decides to head home.
If you are not a fan of the theater, or do not have the money, fear not! Feel free to stop by the Lucky Lab after 4:00pm and join us then!
We hope to see you Saturday, Feb 4th!
