There’ s Something Funny Going On Here!
Pintello Comedy Theater: Bringing the Laughs for Over 22 Years
by Whitney Pintello
Sure,“ laughter is the best medicine“ sounds good but how long can you sustain that? Well apparently, 22 years! Just over 22 years ago, my parents, Rod and Marion Pintello started our family business, our legacy, Pintello Comedy Theater. After 20 + years working in local community theater, they really wanted to focus on bringing lightness, joy and laughter. Hence, the mission of only putting on comedies.
It started as a one year experiment: let’ s do five shows and if nobody shows up, we’ ll close up shop and it will have been a great one year experiment … but people came, and they laughed, and they laughed! And here we are 22 years later!
How does it work? We are an amateur theater, pulling our talent from folks that have everyday jobs such as software engineers, school teachers, bankers, everyday folks who love to play on stage. We’ ve had folks on our stage from age 6 to age 86! We pride ourselves on casting outside rigid expectations and stereotypes and strive for diverse and inclusive casting.
How do we choose the shows? The family has dozens of scripts on their nightstands, backseat of the car, desk drawer at work, you name it! We trade them around, leaving notes in the margins and suggesting our favorites which bubble to the top each year. We also love suggestions from our patrons! With 160 actors gracing our stage over the years, and over 85 different shows, are we ever worried we will run out of material? Absolutely not!
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