• Cole Porter Festival •  

June 11-13, 2010      

 

The Cole Porter Revue

In the last five years Ole Olsen’s Cole Porter revue has become a highlight of the Cole Porter weekend festivities. The five revues have presented over fifty different performers and over 75 of Cole Porter’s songs. The first revue, “Timeless Cole”, written and directed by Kurt Schindler and Kelly Voss, was a series of vignettes that placed Cole Porter’s music in an age of internet romance, iPods, and video game conventions. The second show, “A Cole Reception”, also took place in present day and featured family members attending a disastrous wedding reception. This was followed by “A Cup of Cole”, which showed an action-packed broadcast of a morning show. Both of these productions were written and directed by Schindler. For 2008 Schindler kept the show in the realm of daytime television by presenting “Night and Day”, a parody of a daytime soap opera. Porter’s music proved the perfect backdrop. In 2009, the revue jumped mediums with “Radio Cole”, the story of Smitty, a young man with a dream to put on a Cole Porter radio show on his uncle’s local station.

In 2010, the production of “Timeless Cole” will be revisited, receive an upgrade, go through a defrag, be made Mac friendly and become Facebook friend-ed in “Timeless Cole 2.0 – Now with Recycling!” Like “Timeless Cole”, “Timeless Cole 2.0” will be a series of vignettes placing the songs of Cole Porter in contemporary situations. Scenes from the previous production will return and new ones introduced, updating the show with such incredible cultural advances as cell phones becoming iPhones, desperate housewives advancing to real housewives, and Susan Boyle. And be forewarned, a few “Twilight” inspired, angst-ridden, love-sick vampires may also show up.

*The Cole Porter Revue will be on hiatus in 2011.

 

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Downtown Peru, Indiana