Michele LeTourneau
Northern News Services

NNSL (Nov 27/98) - The people who brought you the hit Steel Magnolias last month are back with a sure-fire dinner theatre hit.

Kitsch In Sync, Inc. is staging a Tracy Riley and Christopher Foreman original, Confessions of a Cabin Dweller, about the follies, foibles and joys of living in the North.

"It's really Tracy's story," says Foreman, who directed the piece. "It's about a girl from down south who came up North, became a singer and finds herself living on an island in isolation."

Performing with Riley, who really does live on an island, are four other well-known and well-loved residents: Anna Tesar, Kerrin Patterson, German Saravanja and Margo Nightingale.

The show, which incorporates video footage shot this past weekend around town, is a combination of skits and songs. Riley, who last put an album out in 1994, has written several new songs.

"It's the perfect Christmas evening of hilarity and music," Foreman says. "It's big fun and it's the time of year for it. We certainly had fun putting it together."

Without divulging too much, Foreman hints that there will be a Northern fashion show as well as a salute to working at the Wildcat Cafe.

Foreman and Riley, who have wanted to collaborate since they first worked together in 1994, are keeping the set simple; they hope to take the show on the road.

Judging from the overwhelming response to Kitsch In Sync's previous production -- it was a sell-out -- it might be wise not too tarry before buying tickets.

The show runs from Dec. 16-19 in the Katimavik Room at the Explorer Hotel. Cocktails will be served at 6:30 p.m., dinner, which will be a buffet with various hot and cold entrees, will be served at 7 p.m. and the show begins 8 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased at Birchwood Gallery for $27.50 each.