Steve Martin and Martin Short Bring Their Duo Show to Johnny Mercer Theater
Steve Martin and Martin Short Bring Their Duo Show to Johnny Mercer Theater
The two-man comedy act that has quietly become one of the most successful touring shows in America touches down in Savannah this week. Steve Martin and Martin Short, whose long-running stage collaboration (Only Murders in the Building has only amplified it) has been selling out theaters from Toronto to Tampa, play the Johnny Mercer Theater on April 11. The show is roughly 90 minutes of sharpened-over-a-decade banter, surprise musical moments with Short at the piano, and Martin on banjo — yes, that banjo — for his Grammy-winning bluegrass material.
The Johnny Mercer Theater is part of the Savannah Civic Center complex, and its 2,550-seat room is exactly the kind of sweet spot this act was built for — close enough to see the facial work, large enough for a real room response to a well-landed joke. Their recent Southeast dates have run long, with multiple Q&A tangents that audiences describe as the evening's best material.
If you're going: the theater is a short walk from most downtown hotels. Tickets were moving fast after the announcement; check official channels for late releases in the week leading up to the show.
