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Fringe Review: Sam's Clam and Oyster Bar a pearl of musical madness

Article content Stage 18 — Luther Centre (10014 81 Ave.) Article content I was laughing before this even started at a random Society for the Victims of Catalytic Converter Theft Worldwide T-shirt, but it didn't take long before this act of musical theatre started earing its cheesy chuckles. Article content Aboard a Poseidon-doomed fishing boat within a deadly storm, one of the trawlers, uh, singing pirates proclaims, 'We lost two and half men! And then 85 whole men!' Captain Trout asking to see his doll-played son one last time before the ship heads to its sandy grave. Article content Article content Fast forward through the generations and said baby is now an old man telling his grandson he's been making up his origin story as he was too young to remember it, then promptly keels over after leaving young Sam his titular clam and oyster bar. Article content With a large ensemble cast including a nurse, Sam's rival Cam, an alcoholic baba, and a guy with really, really long arms that made me cry laugh, a battle of wits and a bra-flinging romance all swirl around with major help from some impressively good songs, including a true beauty about being metaphorically lost at sea. Article content Like, better than the musical episode of Strange New Worlds, good, laugh-out-loud lyrics including, 'It feels like something's changin', taking pearls from that… Caucasian,' after Sam is bestowed mystical oysters from a ghostly fisherman and his squawking (human-played) seagull. Delightfully insane, and happily lecherous in turns. Article content When winds blow south and a clamdemic hits with a certain nautical Lovecraftian fish streak, sweet monster costumes and fight scenes are worth the admission alone as the story comes full circle, and you'll be humming along about the sky meeting the sea as you drift back into the bubbling ocean of Fringers.