Team Jackalope Spring Fling: Scott Blasey, Andrew Leahey, Tim Vitullo, Jay Wiley; CMU Drama Staging ‘The Comedy of Errors’ (Wed., 4/24/19)

1) Team Jackalope has another fun concert event tonight, its Spring Fling. Scott Blasey, lead singer of The Clarks, will sing songs and tell personal stories from his over 30 years in the music business. Blasey has been involved with all three Team Jackalope concerts. Two time returnees who will be performing are Tim Vitullo (Tim Vitullo Band) and Jay Wiley (The Hawkeyes). A very special guest is Nashville, Tennessee recording artist, Andrew Leahey and the Homestead. They will be making their Pittsburgh debut and performing music from their latest CD, Airwaves. The concert helps Team Jackalope raise funds and awareness for Crohn’s and Colitis disease medical research with the help of Jack Hatten. Hatten will also be playing lead guitar in a Tom Petty music set with other performers. 6 p.m. Level 20 Sports Bar Restaurant & Banquet Hall, 1033 Paxton Dr., Bethel Park.

Scott Blasey going deep into a song. (photo: Rick Handler)

2) When we say that “love is blind” or something vanished “into thin air,” we’re quoting Shakespeare (from The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest, respectively). Did Shakespeare actually coin all the expressions he’s credited with, or did he just pick them up from colloquial speech of the time and put them in his plays? Hard to tell, but he wrote at least one play of which the title has entered everyday language: The Comedy of Errors. If we classify Shakespeare’s comedies on a spectrum from seriocomic to silly to very silly, The Comedy of Errors comes in at very silly. It features two sets of identical twins who were separated in childhood and wind up in the same city, unknowingly, when grown. Cascades of errors ensue, accompanied by much ribald humor. The play has been adapted many times, including in India, where it was the basis for a Bollywood musical. Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama performs The Comedy of Errors without the Bollywood, or maybe not. 8 p.m. Performances continue through April 27. In the Philip Chosky Theater on campus, 5000 Forbes Ave., Oakland.  (MV)

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