The Kids In The Hall

"The Kids in the Hall", the Canadian comedy troupe of the 1990's, are returning to their live performance roots for a major North American theatre tour in 2008. The tour kicks off at the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville, Indiana on April 4th and will include approximately thirty cities in the US and Canada. Discovered by Lorne Michaels, creator of "Saturday Night Live," The Kids in the Hall (Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson) exploded into our consciousness when their half-hour sketch comedy show debuted on CBC and HBO in 1989. The show ended in 1995 but lived on in reruns on The Comedy Network and Comedy Central offering new fans the opportunity to fall under the "hilariously warped" spell of the Kids' spin on life, love, lust, middle-class values and the dark corners of suburbia. Since the show ended, each of the members has been involved in a variety of extremely successful projects but finally acquiesced to the steady demands from fans to take their classic sketches out of the hall and back in front of a live audience in 2000. A movie version of the tour, Same Guys, New Dresses followed along with another tour and DVD (“Tour of Duty”) in 2002. The 2008 tour, titled “Live As We’ll Ever Be,” represents a new era in the troupe’s collaboration and is comprised of completely fresh material which simultaneously reflects who they are now and their patently off-kilter take on ordinary life. Favourite characters from the television series appear in entirely new situations sharing the stage with new KITH personas which are destined for the same level of cult adoration. In a world where most entertainment tries to play it safe, “The Kids in the Hall” steadfastly refuse to follow the trend, preferring instead to slaughter sacred cows and look at the world – and each other – with refreshing honesty. Join The Kathies, Headcrusher, the Sales Guys, Buddy Cole and people you’ve never met before – but somehow recognize from your everyday life – on an adventure into the bizarre and side-splittingly funny when “The Kids in the Hall” stop by the Boulevard Casino’s Red Robinson Show Theatre in May.