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• Promotional Video: HERE
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IN THE NEWS
Florida Weekly - https://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/articles/retirement-has-never-been-funnier/ Happenings - https://www.happeningsmagazine.net/florida-reps-boca-tackles-retirement-life-in-florida/
Broadway World
• https://www.broadwayworld.com/ft-myers-naples/article/New-Comedy-BOCA-to-Open-at-FloridaRepertory-Theatre-in-February-20250116
WGCU
o https://news.wgcu.org/2025-02-06/florida-repertory-theatres-boca-a-brand-new-not-to-be-missed-comedy
o https://news.wgcu.org/arts-and-culture/2025-02-25/playwright-jessica-provenz-crows-about-her-comedyboca-at-florida-repertory-theatre
o https://news.wgcu.org/arts-and-culture/2025-02-17/heres-whats-onstage-at-southwest-florida-theatersduring-the-week-of-feb-17
PATRON COMMENTS…………………………………….…………...Page 2
PRINT ADVERTISING SAMPLES..…………………….….….….…Page 3
Thank you for bringing this funny, all too close to home, comedy to the Arcade stage!
Deborah Jonsson, Marketing Director djonsson@floridarep.org
Patron Comments (from survey)
1. Current and humorous. As always, great acting
2. Great show!
3. I recognized characters from my own development.
4. So much fun and apropos for our demographics!!! Very clever set and fantastic job by all the actors. I was laughing almost nonstop.
5. The stevia, the Stevia.. what a hoot!
6. The music was wonderful.
7. Great comedic acting.
8. It reminded me so much of where I live at Shell Point in Ft. Myers.
9. Laugh out loud funny! Perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
10. As a 65-year-old that has lived in one of those places, it was very accurate. Very funny.
11. The play was funny, the cast talented, and the vibe transporting.
12. Seeing the great Vicki Boyle in two roles was a blast!
13. Fun, lighthearted production.
14. Actors were so well-prepared, so funny, and the stage, music, and even the Zoom scenes were so very clever!
15. Very funny!
16. We loved the play, very entertaining, actors were excellent.
17. Funny and clever.
18. Lots of laughs!
19. What a unique play! Loved the content and script great humor.
20. Great actors.
21. A lot of fun.
22. Just a great job by all.
23. Cute story.
24. Fun performance! Loved it.
25. At my age…..I could relate to soooo much of the comical situations and living in a 55+ community. So much hit home. Good fun and laughs!
26. Funny.
27. Boca was kind of fun, several good laughs especially in the first act. Kind of a mirror on retirement community life.
28. I totally enjoyed the performance.
29. It is a fast-moving, clever script and production.
THE VIEW FROM PLANET KERTH
Visiting America on a Saturday afternoon
Last Saturday I went to visit America, state by state.
Georgia. Tennessee. Kentucky.
It wasn’t my intention when I left the house at around noon. I thought I was just going to the Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers to pick up Mike and Sandy, old friends from Chicago who would spend a few days with me. But when I got to the cell phone lot, I decided to stroll around a bit until they got their luggage and called me to come get them.
And that’s when I realized that I had actually come to visit America, state by state. Indiana. Illinois. Wisconsin.
Those were the license plates on the cars that sat patiently waiting to pick up family and friends who were just landing at RSW for a visit. Car after car, from state after state, all across America.
New York. Pennsylvania. New Jersey. It made sense that people from all of those states were probably just landing to visit this little bit of paradise in late February, coming from states that felt pretty far from paradise when they boarded on that early February morning.
Nevada. Minnesota. New Hampshire. It was about 1 p.m., and temperatures
here hovered right around 82 degrees, with 60 percent humidity. So it was no surprise that folks from those frigid states would want to be here on this pleasant, sunny Saturday. But what was a bit surprising was that they were being picked up by friends and family driving cars from all those distant states, not just in Florida cars — although, of course, there were plenty of those here in the parking lot, too.
Michigan. Nebraska. Maryland.
As I visited each of them, state by state, my mind started to seek connections to try to make sense of it all: Does everybody in Colorado drive a Subaru, or was it just coincidence that those three plates were all on the back of Outbacks?
Are the streets of Dallas, Texas, really so rugged and hilly that you need a big black Hummer with giant nubbly tires just to get to Starbucks?
Do they still make license plates in state prisons? And if so, is it cruel and unusual punishment to ask a New Hampshire lifer to stamp out “Live free or die” plates every
day for the rest of his caged-in life?
All potential thoughts for future columns maybe, but for now I had work to do for this one. My “collect them all” mentality had kicked in, so I pulled out my notebook and a pencil and started listing all the states I was visiting on this pleasant February Saturday. I didn’t want to leave any out, or include any that I couldn’t honestly say were there. Delaware. Massachusetts. Virginia.
People waiting in their cars cast suspicious glances at me. Who was this guy walking around, glancing at their license plate and taking notes? I’m sure when they picked up their friends at the terminal, they would tell them that swarms of plain clothes government agents in flowered shirts and cargo shorts were roaming the parking lot, taking notes, checking to see if their vehicle sticker tags were up to date — or worse.
Oh, well. It wouldn’t be the first harebrained paranoid conspiracy theory born in Florida. Connecticut. Ohio. Maine.
I was almost disappointed when my cell phone rang. It was Mike, calling to say they had their luggage and were waiting at door number one, under the United Airlines signs.
But wait, I hadn’t checked out all of the plates in the lot, because some drivers had backed into spaces and their rear plates were buried in bushes. And new cars were arriving all the time. I wouldn’t want to miss Idaho.
Mike and Sandy have known me for 50
years, and they would have understood if I told them I would come get them after I had checked out all the plates in the lot.
“We should just get comfortable,” Mike would tell Sandy. “This might take a while. It’s just TR, being TR.”
I might have done that with lesser friends — almost certainly with my siblings — but no. I hadn’t seen my friends in a long while, and we had a lot to catch up on. I hopped in my car and headed off to get them. I was tempted to swing into Cell Phone Lot #2 to finish the job, but hey, this was Mike and Sandy who had come to visit. The rest of America would have to wait for another day.
Later, I pulled out my notebook and tallied up 24 different license plates I had seen from out-of-state cars. If you include all the Florida cars that were also there, that meant that I had unexpectedly visited exactly half of America in about 30 minutes in the middle of a February Saturday.
So if you ever get bored on a weekend here in paradise and want to take a quick spin around this great land of ours, head on over to RSW for an hour or so. You won’t be disappointed.
For the record, although I also saw plates from Ontario and Quebec, I didn’t count our great neighbor nation Canada as one of the states I visited on my unexpected tour of America.
That would not only be premature, but also inherently stupid. ■
TR Kerth is the author of the book “Revenge of the Sardines.” Contact him at trkerth@yahoo.com
