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Hot Tickets: Dinner and more

By MARTY CLEAR
Published January 19, 2006

It's sort of like My Dinner with Andre squared. Phyro-Giants!, a 70-minute play about four acquaintances sharing dinner, drinks and provocative conversation, was a long-running late-night hit in Los Angeles, and became a little-known but acclaimed 2003 movie by Bob Odenkirk called Melvin Goes to Dinner.

Jobsite Theatre brings the Michael Bleiden comedy to the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center for three weekends starting Friday. By all accounts the script is very funny and raunchy, with a surprising twist at the end. A cast of familiar Jobsite actors (Ryan McCarthy, Shawn Paonessa, Summer Bohnenkamp-Jenkins and Katrina Stevenson) take to the Shimberg Theater stage Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 and Sunday evenings at 7. All tickets are $18.50 plus service charge. Call (813) 229-7827 or go to tbpac.org. Oh, and about that unusual title. Director Kari Keller said it has to do with an image conjured up by a schizophrenic that becomes a metaphor for the four dinner companions.

- MARTY CLEAR, Times correspondent

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