Seducing the Audience, CarniKid Productions, at Frankie J’s MethaDome Theatre. If you’ve seen the recurring Saturday Night Live sketch “The Continental”–in which Christopher Walken plays a smooth-talking lothario who speaks directly to the camera–then you’ve got the gist of Dan Carr’s “slightly more than one-man show.” Sitting at a restaurant table center stage, Carr treats the audience as his date, leaking uncomfortable information about himself and occasionally engaging his imaginary companion. His swinging persona is ingratiating but remarkably uninformed: though he claims to be “really into the Russian authors of the 19th century,” he later confesses his ignorance of Dostoyevsky. Romance is fleeting, if not entirely absent; phone calls from disgruntled ex-lovers and testy exchanges with an increasingly annoyed waiter speed the show to its foregone conclusion.
