Off-Broadway's Trailer Park Musical to Close at Dodger Stages Dec. 4

Off-Broadway's The Great American Trailer Park Musical will play its final performance at Dodger Stages on Sunday, December 4 unless there is a "dramatic increase in business" according to producers. The tuner will have played 121 performances at the time of closing.

The show centers on what happens when Pippi Orfeh, a stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie Kaitlin Hopkins and her tollbooth collector husband Shuler Hensley. The cast also includes Marya Grandy, Linda Hart, Leslie Kritzer and Wayne Wilcox.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical received mixed reviews when it opened on September 27. In his positive review, Broadway.com critic Kevin Manganaro wrote: "Something's glistening in the north Florida trailer park of Armadillo Acres, and for once it's neither the aluminum siding of the mobile homes, nor the sun reflectors that its residents use to keep permanently tan. It's a sparkling, sharp irreverence that lights up The Great American Trailer Park Musical and makes it one of the most laugh-out-loud shows in town."

The company of The Great American Trailer Park Musical recorded an original cast recording of the show on October 26. It is expected to be released by Sh-K-Boom Records on January 24, 2006.