Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Starting this weekend, the Carrollwood Players put on Monkey Soup, a madcap comedy set in 1930s NYC, which they describe as "the sort of movie the Marx Brothers might have made after a hundred cups of coffee with their hair on fire." If that isn't enough to convince you to see the show, how about this: it's about the advent of the worst show in stage history (it's neck and neck with Springtime for Hitler), called Lady Furtwinger's Lover.
The play-within-a-play produces a rapid-fire succession of physical comedy:
This article appears in Jun 24-30, 2010.