BARK! The Musical comes to Tucson starting July 13 (Well, technically, it starts on July 12, but that preview show is already sold out) and plays numerous times to what we in the dog rescue business hope are packed audiences.
You see, the good and talented folks at BARK! are giving back to the dog rescues. $5 of every seat will be donated to the beneficiary dog rescue that night. It’s a win-win for the Arizona Onstage, the dog rescue groups and theater goers.
So far the schedule is: (plus other dates)
July 13 – Humane Society of Southern Arizona
July 14 – F.A.I.R.
July 20 – Arizona Greyhound Rescue
July 21 – Spay & Neuter Solutions
BARK! has been playing in L.A. for two years is on its way to an off-Broadway run. There are discounts for seniors older than 55 and students with I.D.
Now be a good doggie and go buy a ticket. Woof!
This article appears in Jul 5-11, 2007.
Bark! sounds like the best show since that “Ribbit!” musical about frogs. Loved it. Better than “Cats.” I’d see it again, and again.
What. The. Hell.
“Bark!” my ass! What, was “Woof!” already taken?
Any-way. Never did see “Cats.” Looked like an insult to real cats. Cats are not effete dancing humans. They are cats.
I have a black cat right here, sleeping on top of my couch. I love him. His name is Boo.
Do the people-dogs in “Bark!” act like real dogs? I think not. I’ll bet they don’t even lick themselves.
If “Bark!” has scenes with people wearing cones around their necks due to mange, then maybe I will go. Also, I want to see the actors lick themselves and do yoga.
I saw “Avenue Q” and it has puppets. Now “Bark!” has dogs. Seems everybody needs a prop. What happened to honest theatre? When I was a lad, we had “West Side Story” which was about REAL PEOPLE who had knives and could snap their fingers.
Then I saw “Hair” and Beverly D’Angelo was in the movie version, and she was naked. That was awesome. I also liked when Chevy Chase squirted mustard on her in the shower in “Vacation.”
But now we have “Bark!” and I find it insulting to dogs everywhere. Bark my ass.
But even more important is this whole dog-rescue connection. What is that about? You rescue dogs who are running around on Limberlost or on Campbell and eating ranch fries out of the dumpster at Eegees, right?
Well what about humans, do you rescue them too?
Why do people want to rescue dumb animals but where are the people rescuring the humans?
PETA throws blood on people wearing furs. What about throwing blood on people who wear HUMAN SKIN?
What bothers me about all of this is the hypocrisy.
I don’t mind if you lie, steal, kill, or pick your nose, as long as you are not a hypocrite.
And the dogs in “Bark!” are hairy hypocrites who don’t have a canine arf of wormy assed woof.
This is wrong and so is “Bark!” and so are YOU, Karyn Zoldan!
Word.
Seems that Donkey Sheen has been eating tainted Chinese dog food. First, I have it on good authority that the “dogs” in “Bark!” do sniff each other’s butts. So there’s verisimilitude for you. Second, it’s worth rescuing animals because they can’t very well extricate themselves from the trouble they get into in a human-dominated world, especially when they get into trouble through the inattentiveness or cruelty of humans. As for working to rescue people rather than animals, nothing in Donkey Sheen’s post persuades me that this would be a worthwhile activity.