New West Theatre is winding down their season by cooking up a delicious recipe of a cup of laughs, a couple heaping tablespoons of giggles with just a dash of of audience participation garnished with improv with Caroline Smith’s “The Kitchen Witches.”
The production, about two laid off and very different cooking show TV hosts forced to work together and engage each other in a constant battle of one upmanship, runs March 8-17 in the Sterndale Bennett Theatre.
“ It’s going to be our funniest play in five years. We haven’t done an outright comedy in a while,” said New West Theatre general manager Jeremy Mason, who plays Stephen Bittle, for his first role in an adult production since 2007 He plays the producer of Baking with Babcha and is the son of the host, Dolly.
“It’s an homage to cable access television shows,” described Karen Johnson-Diamond who plays Dolly Bittle.
“I’m the only certified chef. She’s very serious about it cooking, but my show is cancelled,” described Erica Hunt, of her character Isabelle Lomax.
“ So I come down and ruin Dolly’s show, ‘Baking with Babcha,’ ” she said.
Johnson-Diamond noted her character is the complete opposite.
“She’s more interested in the audience and fashion than being a successful chef,” she said.
While the show is about cooking, the actresses note they have nothing in common with their characters.
“We can’t cook,” Hunt laughed.