The Marsh extends Wayne Harris’ MAY DAY PARADE

The show plays Saturday at 8:00 pm through December 13, 2008 in The Marsh Studio Theater, 1074 Valencia Street, San Francisco.

Tickets are $15-35 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

“A brilliant performance by a uniquely talented artist.” My Cultural Landscape Blog: George Heymont

”The San Francisco Theater Blog Awards Division awards 'May Day Parade' three stars with a Bangle of Praise. Two of the three stars are for Harris's writing and performing, but the third is for all those drum lines. He is such a musical force on stage that it is hard to stay seated in your little red chair. This viewer wanted to stand up and form a Second Line right behind him.” SF Theater Blog: Doug Konecky
“Just the sight of them big butt girls in short skirts doing the “dirty dog” down Newstead Blvd. put the crowd into a frenzy…I mean, folks were following the band down the street. Ain’t seen nothing like it before or since.”

There’s a parade coming! ….so, get a seat on the curb with a snow cone and watch as Wayne Harris portrays 1 Baptist preacher, 3 generations on a porch, a 4 man bass drum ensemble, 12 rather large “letter” girls bumping and grinding down a mid-town boulevard and the 100 member Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church Drum & Bugle Corps.

Award winning performer and San Francisco Bay Area favorite, Wayne Harris, takes us on a road less traveled…(or maybe less marched) as he prepares at 8 years old, for his first parade maneuvering between a jealous big brother, a drunken deacon, a foul mouthed banner partner, new shoes and a grandmother of biblical proportions…. all while learning the value of family, history and the importance of staying in step!
Bay Area Theater, drum and bugle corps, solo performance, polio