Newest Tipping Point Play Offers Hearty Laugh Out Loud Moments

's latest production, The Love List, brings a whole new meaning to the cautionary addage "Be careful what you wish for."

The Norm Foster play – showing at the theater through Feb. 19 – is a comedy about one man's quest for the perfect woman. Three actors deliver three memorable performances throughout.

The star of the play is Dave Davies, who previously appeared in The Dinner Party and Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Davies plays humdrum Bill, who is a single man talked into looking for love by his friend Leon. Bill's friend is played by Wayne David Parker. The play is directed by Lynn Lammers.

The plot starts off with Bill, an Average Joe statistician, celebrating his birthday with a friend. Leon gives Bill an unusual, meant-to-be-funny present – a list to be filled out with the qualities Bill seeks in a woman. Leon explains that he'll take his singleton best friend's list to "a Gypsy woman" who is a matchmaker guaranteed to find his soulmate. They fill out the list, delivering dialogue that had the audience laughing hysterically, ranking the qualities Bill seeks in a woman.

Once they finalize a list and part ways for the evening, things take a turn for the strange. Bill awakens to find a new visitor, a woman named Justine at his door. The woman, played by Tina Gloss-Finnell, embodies all of the qualities Bill listed – a coincidence that does not go unnoticed.

Bill soon learns that his wishes have been granted in Justine. However, things turn somewhat sour and the list is erased and new qualities are added. Justine's personality changes as the list is amended. She goes from sweet and affectionate to pushy and shrill to a slew of other unattractive combinations.

In his quest for creating the perfect woman, Bill learns there is no such thing.

The play is clever, full of insight and generally hilarious. The Love List is showing on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. through Feb. 19. There are matinee shows on Saturdays at 3 p.m. and on Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $28 to $30 for adults and $26 to $28 for students and senior citizens.

The Tipping Point's next production will be Fiction, by Steven Dietz, from March 15 to April 15.