THEATRE + COMEDY

The Grand 1894 Opera House presents The Wonder Bread Years starring Pat Hazell, Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 8pm.

A salute to the Baby Boomer Generation, The Wonder Bread Years, written by and starring Seinfeld writer Pat Hazell, invites you to take a rollicking field trip back to your childhood. The Wonder Bread Years is a fast-paced, hilarious production that gracefully walks the line between stand-up and theater. “Laugh-out-loud material that is pitch-perfect,” notes Impact Weekly.

Life was all about Kool-Aid, sugar pops, jiffy pop, twinkies, slinkies, twister and getting in trouble! The Wonder Bread Years features a set that will evoke the typical front porch and yard of an American kid in the 1960s and 70s. The show looks back on the food, toys, holiday customs, commercials, and TV shows of an amazing era. Manwich, Spam, the kid’s table, Rock’em Sock’em Robots, milk money, Dilly Bars, road trips in the way-back seat of the family station wagon—these are just a few of the slices of Americana that will be served up!

The Wonder Bread Years is written and performed by Pat Hazell who Showtime portrays as “one of the funniest people in America.” A veteran of The Tonight Show, a critically-acclaimed playwright, and a contributing commentator to National Public Radio, Hazell is recognized for his genuinely funny American humor and his salute to pop culture.

“Pure unpasteurized nostalgia”, according to The Los Angeles Times, while The Dallas Morning News states “Mr. Hazell's nostalgia is contagious.” Audiences certainly won’t want to miss experiencing this slice of Americana that Jerry Seinfeld calls “milk-snorting funny”!