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Limelight: On With the Shoo

Treasure Tavern, a new attraction for grown-ups, has comedians, a contortionist and that old vaudevillian spirit.

By Jay Boyar

Sometimes I miss The Ed Sullivan Show.

On Sunday nights in the 1950s and ’60s, Sullivan’s iconic variety program offered an overstuffed cavalcade of comedians and contortionists, singers and jugglers, magicians and acrobats and puppets. (Topo Gigio, anyone?)

Dear Ed and his gang may have gone to that big TV network in the sky, but I recently discovered that their vaudevillian spirit lives on at Treasure Tavern.

The new, adult-oriented attraction is produced by the folks behind the family-friendly Pirates Dinner Adventure. The two venues share a building in the I-Drive area. Treasure Tavern (treasuretavern.com) delivers, as Sullivan used to say, “a really big shoo”—or, at least, a really multifaceted one.

Although the shoo, ah, show, is definitely for grown-ups, it is hardly X-rated. Some of the costumes are rather skimpy, but there is no nudity.

Part of what’s “adult” about it is the humor, which is no more risqué than I’d expect to encounter at a typical comedy club. The other “adult” part involves the venue, which seats 260 and has the sophisticated, wood-and-leather look of an upscale club. Bar drinks and a three-course prime-rib dinner are available as options, served on the sort of fine tableware you don’t often encounter at dinner shows.

Roberta Patton plays Gretta von Keagel, supposedly the widow of the tavern’s former owner, who is said to have died while in bed with her. Patton, who emcees the evening, is the Sullivan figure here, except that, unlike the unabashedly talent-free Ed, she can actually sing, dance and tell jokes.

The show includes most of the old Sullivan staples, with improv comedy and party games thrown in to engage the audience directly.

My favorites included a contortionist from Mongolia, a group of female singers and dancers called Jewels, and a Canadian-Bulgarian couple who did an acrobatic Apache dance, flinging each other around the stage.

Not especially to my taste were an unfunny pair of Statler and Waldorf-type pirate puppets and a Russian quick-change duo. I could also have used less of those party games and that risqué humor (which I didn’t find offensive, just a tad corny).

A talented comedy troupe (Todd Feren, Ed Budd, Daniel Jordan) appeared throughout the evening. Its female member, a waitress called Jinx (Michelle Feren) in pigtails and knee socks, did an entertaining dumb-bunny shtick that reminded me of another old variety-show host, Tommy Smothers.

But the best reason to check out Treasure Tavern is Kirk Marsh, a brilliant Iowa-born juggler, clown and comic magician who performed (without speaking) under the odd name of Poopsie.

At one point, he appeared in a magician’s tuxedo, attempting tricks that (intentionally) kept misfiring. What made this part of his act especially funny was that whenever anything happened that was even slightly unexpected, he would strike a dramatic pose, as if to say, “Isn’t that amazing?”

Your favorites at Treasure Tavern might be different from mine, but that’s the nice thing about a variety show: If you don’t like a particular act, another will be along in a few minutes.

Just like on The Ed Sullivan Show.

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