From Page to Stage

The McManus Comedies are a series of six one-man plays written by Pat McManus and performed by actor Tim Behrens to more than a half million audience members between 1992 and Tim's retirement in 2020.

 

Each of the plays feature a host of denizens from Pat’s fictional home town of Blight, Idaho (just 6 miles south of Famine, Idaho). Tim portrayed more than 45 of these zany characters, including: the smelly old woodsman Rancid Crabtree, who doesn’t take baths because he knows soap and water will eat holes in your protective crust; Melba Peachbottom, the most beautiful girl in the county; the irascible instigator Crazy Eddie Muldoon; daft old Mrs. Swisher, who regularly reports those who are “in cahoots with the devil” to the sheriff; 100-year-old Ed who falls asleep in the middle of…anything; Olga Bonemarrow, Manny Fogg, Retch Sweeney and others, not to mention an array of animals and even objects!

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Live performances of each play were filmed and produced in VHS and later DVD formats that, for many years, were available for public purchase.