“Run On: A Comedy with Errors” starring David A.R. White, Tommy Blaze, and Brad Stine (Pure Flix Entertainment)

What do you get when you combine the three top Christian comedians, a female singer with a wonderful voice, and a message of failure, loss and restoration?
You get this very funny, very moving, very meaningful look on how we cause most of our own problems by running off to a far country without God.
David A.R. White left his Mennonite family and pastor father in Kansas at age 19 to go to Hollywood and have an adventure while pursuing his dream of being an actor. At first it went very well: he got cast in TV’s hit show, “Evening Shade”, and became very close to his “TV dad”, Burt Reynolds. For four years, David luxuriated in the adoration of the crowd and the attention of the nation’s top box-office star. Burt even encouraged him to “warm up” the crowd before the live taping of ES., but David went too far while impersonating Reynolds one day and got summarily fired. No recourse, no apology received. Suddenly his career was at a serious standstill.
Tommy Blaze tells a hilarious story of being served with divorce papers and ignoring them for six months, being summoned to court and getting lost driving from Orlando to Tampa (no easy trick.) He ends up circling Florida “like Ponce deLeon” trough the Everglades, where he is fixing a flat tire amidst the gators and snakes and asking God for a “sign” that he shouldn’t get divorced. Finally getting to court, he insults the judge and discovers this is no “special jail” for people with “potty mouths” and later he relates that to “no special hell” either.
Brad Stine, who was gifted from comedy in the womb, where he almost stayed permanently, was born in Indiana. Like the others, his testimony reflects his personal and professional side of living as a prodigal, and what it took to help him “come to his senses” and return to a loving Father God who never stopped looking for his return. Producer David A.R. White, who does the opening comedy segment, point out that the laughter segment opens the audience to identifying with the performers, and realize their own struggles.
Elizabeth Travis contributes powerful lyrics well-sung between segments, tying them together and challenging the audience all along.
The Dove Foundation gave it five out of 5 Doves, and recommends it for ages 12 and over. It is VERY funny, but it also really an amazing presentation of the Prodigal Son.
Check their website for this project, http://www.pureflix.com/runon.
(Repeat title, stars and distributor.) I’m Doc Kirby & that’s a Book Bit.