Moment of Crisis

Receding hairlines, kids that won’t leave home, trophy wives and other expensive indulgences to recapture youth are just a few of the foibles of mid-life crises examined in Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical, opening tonight at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. Artistic director and producer Michael J. Duran says Mid-Life is returning for a second run after its previous well-received run. “It was so funny. It just talks about basically the foibles and the pitfalls and the pains and the aches of getting old, or reaching mid-life,” he explains. “They look at it through very warped eyes.”

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You don’t have to be in the throes of your own crisis to appreciate it, either. After all, Duran points out, the issues raised — and derided — are universal. “It’s funny no matter what age you are,” he says. “Everybody has either gone through mid-life, or is going through mid-life, or will go through mid-life.”

Experience the joy, sorrow and inherent humor of growing older tonight at 6:15 p.m. at BDT, 5501 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder. The play continues through November 8; tickets, $35 to $55, are available at www.bouldersdinnertheatre.com. Call 303-449-6000 or visit the website for more information.
Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Thursdays-Saturdays, 6:15 p.m.; Sundays, 12:15 & 6:15 p.m. Starts: Sept. 3. Continues through Nov. 8, 2008