From Compton & Bennett, creators of Assisted Living: The Musical®, comes their latest comedy sensation. Straight Outta Florida — Throwing Shade on the Sunshine State.
Florida: Home of sunshine, swamplands and stories too weird to make up. Compton & Bennett dive head-first into the madness with Straight Outta Florida — a hilarious 90-minute comedy adventure filled with songs, sketches and sharp satire.
Two actors. Six characters. One outrageous journey through the quirks, charms and contradictions of Florida — told from the inside out through some of Compton & Bennett’s most beloved creations.
Earlene (“…or as my Daddy used to call me, ‘Earl, the girl’”) is a fifth-generation native Floridian and the character at the heart of A Cracker at The Ritz, which played twice a month for more than two years, becoming the longest-running show in Southwest Florida. She sings of swampland scams, overnight developments and the unexpected blessings of storm debris. Her pianist is Gazpacho — cooler than soup and always around…just like humidity.
Fans of Assisted Living: The Musical® will recognize retirees Naomi Lipshitz-Yamamoto-Murphy and Ben Younger, now happily — or not so happily — settled in Florida. Naomi takes on the state she’s grown to love, while Ben, a retired Catskills comic, plays ragtime and drops one-liners with impeccable timing.
Add Florida Man, John Morgan and the legendary Skunk Ape, and you’ll understand why the Florida tourism board is denying all knowledge.
Whether you call Florida home, have vacationed on its shores or simply can’t resist those only-in-Florida headlines, Straight Outta Florida pulls back the curtain on the Sunshine State with humor, music and a knowing wink.
“This is Florida, y’all—but not as the brochures tell it!”
