THE WONDER BREAD YEARS
“Milk-snorting funny!” — Jerry Seinfeld
Saturday, September 19 – Sunday, September 20
7:30 pm Saturday / 2:00 pm Sunday
Argenta Contemporary Theatre
405 Main St., North Little Rock, AR 72114
This project is generously funded by Mid-America Arts Alliance, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the state arts agencies of Arkansas, Kansasm Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Playwright/performer Pat Hazell – a Tonight Show veteran, original writer for NBC’s Seinfeld, and voted one of the five funniest people in America by Showtime TV – has cooked up The Wonder Bread Years, a salute to cultural Americana.
Kneading theatrical storytelling together with stand-up comedy, this fast-paced romp through childhood nostalgia puts a sense of awe and wonder in the bag.
Playwright / Performer Pat Hazell
Pat Hazell is one of the original writers for NBC’s Seinfeld, a Tonight Show veteran, a critically acclaimed playwright and a contributing commentator to National Public Radio. Showtime declared Pat to be one of the five funniest people in America. As a playwright, Pat’s first endeavor, Bunk Bed Brothers, was optioned by Columbia Pictures, then gained the attention of the TV industry and was filmed as the sit-com, American Pie, for NBC. Hazell’s signature work, The Wonder Bread Years, a grand salute to the baby-boomer generation, aired on PBS where they referred to Hazell as “America’s Foremost Pop Culture Anthropologist.” Currently, the live theatrical tour of The Wonder Bread Years is enjoying success across the US.
He is recognized for his genuinely funny Americana humor and his salute to pop culture.