If you were gambling on Austin having lost its taste for Tuna – specifically, the kind cooked up by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams in their trilogy of comedies set in Texas’ third-smallest town – I hope you didn’t lay much money on that bet. The Paramount Theatre had booked the duo’s Tuna Does Vegas – their first addition to the Tuna canon in nine years – for a one-week run of eight shows at the end of October, but apparently folks were so enamored of the idea of Vera, Pearl, and the gang busting up Sin City that tickets moved faster than complimentary highballs in a casino lounge. Last week, Paramount Executive Director Ken Stein added two more weeks to the run – that extends it to Nov. 11 – and Sears and Williams put their seal on the deal by appearing in costume as Bertha Bumiller and Vera Carp in front of the theatre. For more information, visit www.austintheatre.org.
This article appears in September 28 • 2007.