Triple Espresso: A Highly Caffeinated Comedy tells the story of three guys whose bid for showbiz fame and fortune ended in 4-minutes of magnificent failure on national television. Hugh Butternut, Buzz Maxwell, and Bobby Bean tell their rags-to-rags story earnestly, with hysterical results. Butternut is a musician, a vulnerable soul with a lounge lizard smile; Maxwell is an uncertain magician with an attitude; and Bean is an irrepressible, all-over-the-map entertainer with big dreams. The laughter is infectious and the comedy appeals to everyone from first graders to college students to baby boomers.
In the past thirty years, Triple Espresso has entertained over 2 million people in over 60 cities, six countries, three languages. The show continuously ran in Minneapolis and San Diego for over a decade, and is the longest running show in Des Moines, Iowa and Dublin, Ireland. It has also played in London, Chicago, Seattle, Milwaukee, Ghent, Munich, Berlin, Denver, Cleveland, St. Louis, Tulsa, Phoenix, Atlanta and many other cities.
“A triple jolt of inspired craziness … crackles with an energy and spirit of infectious fun”
—Los Angeles Times (*Critics Pick*)
“The funniest thing on six legs”
—London Theatre News
“A performance everyone will enjoy”
—BroadwayWorld
“A hilarious ticking time bomb”
—BBC
“Ranks with the most entertaining shows I have ever seen”
—San Diego Union Tribune