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Bedtime Stories entertains By TED BROWN Staff Writer What do a middle-age couple having sex live on the radio, a lost cab driver, an aging rocker, and a woman moving to Alberta, all have in common? Most times, nothing. But if they're on-stage at John Elliott Theatre, they're likely in Georgetown Little Theatre's newest comedy, Bedtime Stories. The production consists of six vignettes, all taking place in a bedroom, with all of the above showing up in the segments. To detail the vignettes would ruin the fun for future audiences. The six plots range from outrageously funny, to downright poignant, with a large cast by GLT's standards. Rob Long plays sleazy disc jockey Eddie Nighthawk, trying to jump-start his career by being outrageous. Margaret Brady and Mark Tiller are hilarious, as a middle-age couple trying to prop up their daughter's college fund by having sex on-air for $5,000. The audience is `reminded' of their antics throughout the play, making them unforgettable. The next vignette takes a poignant turn as Ian O'Brien and Andrea Gaynor meet decades after a one-time date, when she returns to say goodbye to the terminal O'Brien. In O'Brien's second segment, he has the house in stitches as an inept cat burglar, alongside straight man Rob Pearce, who doles out his lines implicitly. Steve Rossiter holds his own as aging shock rocker Tommy Quick, who isn't near as exciting to groupie Nicole Hamel, once she learns he's as old as her dad. Emma Smith shares her segment with Rob Pearce as a clumsy stripper who can't dance, and her boss who is trying to gently fire her. The play goes full circle as Eddie returns to his wife Laura, played by Heather Stock, pleading with her to stay, while movers Mark Tiller and Steve Rossiter are caught in the midst of the melee. We also meet spaced-out lost cabbie Yolanda, played enthusiastically by Ro PalumboCoates. Bedtime Stories is a play that entertains with simplicity, rather than being deep and thoughtful. 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