What happens when Paul Anthony’s Talent Time meets popular television game show Family Feud? Well, I don’t exactly know, but I suppose we’re all about to find out. This Thursday, Talent Time returns to The Rio Theatre, bringing with it a competitive twist. The merging of these two behemoth television forces will give selected audience members a chance to participate in a round of the “Family Argument” (altered for legal reasons) against the Talent Time All-Star family which includes members of the improv troop The Sunday Service, a middle-aged teen pop singer named I,Kandee, the well-loved street busker SPOONS and comedian Graham Clark.
The opportunity to win cash and prizes will be included, along with an eclectic, as always, handful of performing artists. Taking the stage will be comedian, Sophie Buddle, who recently played Just For Laughs; 12-year-old singer/songwriter Ava Frye, who has raised incredible amounts of money for charities through her performances in 6 different languages; The Runaway Four, who play music from retro video games timed out to actual game play; and, what will surely be some strange solo sketch comedy: Aaron Read from Night Sweats (on Adult Swim, Canada). The live house band will feature musicians Toga D'Hoore, Felipe Morelli, Amine Bouzaher, Docky Duncan and on trumpet, from Bend Sinister, Kristy-Lee Audette. Because you can’t play a tribute to the Family Feud without that iconic trumpet line.
Poster design: Ben Jacques
For this and so much more, showtime is 8:00 this Thursday night. For more information, click-through to the event page on Facebook. If you have never seen the show, here is the opening sequence just released for the start of their 8th season.
https://youtu.be/rxUylAXpkLA
