• 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.
Join us!
Downtown Peru, Indiana