HATE MAIL, a comedy I wrote with my friend Kira Obolensky, just opened at the Ukiah Players Theatre in (logically enough) Ukiah, CA. (<---- Click theater name for website and details.)
HATE MAIL at Ukiah Players Theatre.
I don’t usually plug productions of my plays, but director Keith Aisner is a Rifftrax fan who came to one of our live shows in San Francisco, where I met him and his Ukiah Players colleagues. Very nice people.
FYI, the original production of HATE MAIL in Minneapolis about ten years ago featured Mo Collins of MAD TV fame, and a fine young actor named Michael J. Nelson. Mike was hilarious in the part, and switched off in it with the also-hilarious writer / actor / NPR essayist Kevin Kling. We were blessed with an amazing cast who launched a modest little work that’s had about 50 productions since then, in the U.S. and abroad.
Sorry for the commercial. Now let’s get back to the important work of photoshopping Kevin’s face and rhapsodizing about things bacon.
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1 Kevin Murphy on Feb 8, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Not to play William B. to Bill’s Sammy Maudlin, but I’ve seen “Hate Mail,” and it’s damn funny. It’s unusual enough to sit in the rarified air of The Theatre and hope to have a laugh; it’s far more rare to worry that you might run out of breath laughing, but that’s what you get with “Hate Mail.”
See, Bill’s a Yalie twit, so it’s in his blood to to write for the stage. But leave that behind, see the show, and let’s save up our mockery of Bill’s formidable talent until “Starship Dave” opens.
-kwm
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Reply from Ninjew on February 8, 2008:
Well, if Howard Hesseman (sorry, I mean Kevin Murphy) says it’s good, then I’ll have to get my local community theatre to put it on next years schedule!
Reply from Bill Corbett on February 9, 2008:
“Not to play William B. to Bill’s Sammy Maudlin, but I’ve seen “Hate Mail,” and it’s damn funny.”
Thanks, Randy Bachman! I want to BEAR YOUR CHILDREN!!!
“But leave that behind, see the show, and let’s save up our mockery of Bill’s formidable talent until “Starship Dave” opens.”
Gulp. I’m in for a beating, aren’t I?
Reply from wurwolf on February 9, 2008:
God, I don’t think you could make enough SCTV jokes for me. Keep ‘em coming!
2 Mr. Slick on Feb 8, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Michael J. Nelson, Nelson, Hmmm nope never heard of him. Sorry.
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3 captian phil on Feb 8, 2008 at 9:23 pm
kinda off topic but u guys ever been to a city HEMET, ca?
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4 mrbasehart on Feb 8, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I didn’t know John C McGinley and Julianne Moore were starring your play!
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5 Keith Aisner on Feb 8, 2008 at 10:21 pm
It’s a hoot having the opportunity to stage Hate Mail. The crowds are loving it. We were lucky enough to have to really fine actors do Bill and Kira’s work justice. Come up (over, down, away) to Ukiah, California and see it!
Julianne Moore is our understudy. How did you know?
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6 Dallas on Feb 8, 2008 at 11:18 pm
This has to be the first time I have heard Ukiah mentioned in a pop culture context. While you’re there, I reccommend that you make the trip a few miles north and visit my ancestral land of Willits, CA, home of. . . pretty much nothing. They do have a nice arch they got secondhand from Reno. Also, if you go and visit my uncle he might let you shoot the potato gun.
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7 Natureboy (Ken) on Feb 8, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Bill, is this play a San Fran exclusive or is it going on the road?
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Reply from Bill Corbett on February 9, 2008:
Just in Ukiah, Ken. Produced by the theater above.
8 QuackersnCheese on Feb 9, 2008 at 12:43 am
I haven’t stopped to read anything above including the topic however, judging from the picture this must be the rare Star Trek Klingon Opera episode.
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Reply from kelli on February 11, 2008:
Then is that chic suposed to be Dr Crusher??
9 Yanni on Feb 9, 2008 at 6:59 am
Congrats on the play Bill!
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10 R.A. Roth on Feb 9, 2008 at 2:37 pm
R.A. Roth
666 South Mephistopheles Ave.
Gurney, IL 60606
Dear Mr. Corbett:
In regard to the first several pages of your “script” for the “play” Hate Mail, I cannot express fully, although I shall endeavor to do so, how much I want those ten minutes of my life back.
In short, I am requesting a prorated refund equal to ten minutes of my hourly wage at the Photo & Pizza Hut Emporium, Inc. in Gurney, Illinois, or one dollar.
Thanks so much in advance. TTFN.
R.A. Roth
PS I’d like that dollar in double die 1969 S Lincoln cents, please.
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11 stirrell on Feb 11, 2008 at 6:05 am
Wow, that’s quite a coup getting Tom Hanks to star in your play! (Am I the only one who thought that upon seeing that picture?)
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12 majorjoe23 on Feb 11, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Hey Bill, have you read about this?
http://www.baconunwrapped.com/2008/01/blue-ribbon-bacon-festival.html
You’re still in Minneapolis, right? Des Moines isn’t that far away.
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