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Eric Jensen is here with details about the upcoming production of his "Charlie's Aunt."

Hi Eric.

- Hello.

- Thanks for being here.

- Thanks for inviting me.

- So you've taken this hilarious comedy and tweaked it.

- Right, originally it was written by Brandon Thomas in the 1890s, 1880s, something like that.

So, we've found that audiences nowadays are much more sitcom-ish, you know.

And so they kinda like that joke every five seconds or so.

So what we did, is we kind of rewrote it so the dialogue still sounds English, and is pretty well British, but there's a lot more rapid fire jokes that come throughout the entire show.

And so then when it really starts cooking, it starts getting really funny instead of just waiting for that funny part, it's funny throughout.

- Okay, great.

And tell us the basic plot of "Charlie's Aunt."

- Okay, you have two young guys, and they wanna date two young girls, but back in the 1880s, you have to have a chaperone.

So they call their aunt to come chaperone them and she can't come.

And so they say, "Oh we don't wanna let these girls get away."

So they get their next door neighbor, who is this backwards guy, and doesn't do well with women at all.

And he dresses up and pretends to be the aunt.

And then when the girls come, they see that he's struggling, and they just think it's a woman, a little old lady.

And so they cuddle him and they, you know, they bolster his confidence and they stroke his hand.

He starts to really like it.

And so he says, "Boys, get in the other room."

And the guy was like, "That was not the deal!"

You know, and so, it's just really fun.

And then that's the premise.

It's funny there, and it gets funnier, and funnier, and funnier as it goes.

- Okay, and you just came up with a whole raft of new jokes.

- Well, a bunch, yeah.

- Okay.

Anyway, we're looking forward to it.

Thank you so much for being here to talk about it, thank you.

- You're welcome, thank you.

- And if you would like to know more about that production of Off Broadway Theaters, it's Eric Jensen's "Charlie's Aunt," and goes August 5th through 27th at the Off Broadway Theater in Draper.

Just go to the theobt.org.

That's the obt.org.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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