Spider Saloff's
Entertaining Guests
2010

(a one woman show with a cast of several)

Presenting Entertaining Guests, a one-woman play with original music starring Spider Saloff, with Jeremy Kahn on piano and Jim Sellers as musical director. The book, music, and lyrics are also by Spider Saloff.

This musical comedy is a tour de force with characters everyone will fall in love with. In the tradition of Lily Tomlin and Tracey Ullman, Saloff portrays seven different characters in this hysterical and moving new show, including a sharp-tongued Scottish waitress, a faded stage star, a hairdresser from South Philly and even a bearded poet. The scene of the show revolves around a memorial service for a colorful and inspirational character in which the attendees are an unlikely and diverse group of "guests," many of whom are portrayed by Spider.

Entertaining Guests is mostly funny, but not without a happy message, and contains poignant moments touching on subjects of diversity, human loss and dysfunctional relationships. Saloff who is widely known as a recording artist and jazz singer, returns to her roots as an actress to perform the original music styles that transcend Jazz but rather range from Blues to Broadway. Entertaining Guests will prove to be an unforgettable and toe-tapping good time.

The show is not suggested for children under 13 years old without an adult.

See the Gigs page for details

Here's a feature from the Evanston Review.

And another from Bill Zwecker's column in the Chicago Sun-Times.