hoboheme

Thanks to everyone who came out!!!

If you’re planning on coming to Hoboheme, please get your tickets right away. This the tickets to this show are going really fast! 

Also, tonight’s show is going to be fun!!! A late night show is always a blast!!

Rating: 3.5 stars

Hoboheme is billed, intriguingly, as “a musical about hobos, by hobos.” It’s an oddball original by Mike Robertson and Stuart Hoye that’s cheeky enough to have fun with the hobo mythology: “hobo-topia,” with its cheerful anti-corporate philosophers who care more for freedom, whistling and campfire production numbers than money. “It’s a breeding ground for Bolshevism, but we like to call it home.” And smart enough to have real music, played by a real jugband.

There are terrible fake beards everywhere in the story of Chester (Ted Sloan), a Depression-era lumber tycoon who becomes a hobo when his vicious socialite wife wipes out his money. His opening number is sung, in a spotlight, from atop a boxcar: “You don’t love me, but the Lord does….” He meets a hobo band, including a hobo-ess (Vanessa Lever), and complications ensue with a dark and tormented hobo (“all I’ve got left is my knife”). There are hobo death scenes, and a song about a chain gang (“I think it’s more foreshadowing than anything else”).

They may not have much, these hobos with their acrylic blanket beards, but they have music, dammit, along with their “freewheelin’ lifestyle.” And they have cheese.

The tale of a hobo love quadrangle set in the age of Bennett blankets, Hoboheme follows a group of hobos as they attempt to make their merry way to Toronto to protest the government’s treatment of the unemployed during the Dirty ’30s. The show utilizes a strong ensemble cast to marry witty writing to inspired music; if you could imagine a medicine show put on by the friendly, pun-filled hobos of cartoons,Hoboheme would be the hilarious product of your imaginings. A cavalcade of twisted hobo pronunciations, dick jokes and faux beards,Hoboheme is well worth your time.

FIVE STARS!!

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Our first show was a sell-out! Thanks to everyone who came and filled that theatre! Hope you had as much fun watching it as we had performing it!

Large-scale: How can you resist the idea (not to mention the title) of Hoboheme, a full-scale nine-actor new “hobo musical” by the adventurous team of Mike Robertson and Stuart Hoye, who composed the songs, too. The new period-piece chronicles a cross-country Great Depression journey into a new hobohemian life undertaken by a ruined lumber tycoon. The set, according to Robertson, consists of spare bicycle parts.

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