Entertaining games seniors play

Posted 3/12/19

By the second question, the audience knew what Bill Stand was going to say. “The bar,” Stand had answered when asked where he went to keep warm. The bar was also the place where he went …

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By the second question, the audience knew what Bill Stand was going to say.
“The bar,” Stand had answered when asked where he went to keep warm. The bar was also the place where he went to meet friends and, of course, for entertainment.
His fellow panelists, Diane Brewer and Toni Mancini, offered other answers to the entertainment question. Diane said she went to the senior center and Toni had the audience nodding when she inquired who remembered the Meadowbrook Cinema and the Warwick Musical Theatre.
And when it came to a question about education, Strand said he had earned his college degree and then went on to law school but, as the audience was prepared to guess, never became a lawyer because “I couldn’t pass the bar.”
But then, seniors didn’t have to leave the Pilgrim Senior Center Friday to get their entertainment as the Pilgrim Theatre Stars staged “Games People Play,” a takeoff on popular television game shows that they wrote and produced. The group has been in rehearsals since last fall, although that was hard to tell as some players had a habit of forgetting their lines – or was that part of the show? In either case, it made for more laughs as fellow actors prompted and prodded. And surely laughter and good fun was what it was all about.
In a takeoff of “Family Feud,” the housewives pondered such questions as “what are the benefits of being old?” The answers included “not getting pregnant, watching your grandchildren torment their parents, selective hearing, getting discounts on everything and being able to sleep in.” The answer “now that we’re getting older and collecting alimony, we can afford younger men” brought laughs.
The morning of silliness wasn’t limited to words. Gerald Gaudreau, a bear of a man, wore a wig in a skit where Chris Brainard played Alexis with a pair of what looked to be chopsticks as antennae sticking out of her hair.
Wigs and chopsticks couldn’t hold a candle to Harry Fogell and Kathy Eastman. Complaining of the heat, they pulled off their jackets to reveal arm-long tattoos to shock their peers.
(Text and photos by John Howell)

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