“Ivan Roof-Us” (When Lightning Strikes), a Grenadian comedy show, will be staged as a benefit event at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn College, New York on Saturday, November 27, 8:00pm. The play had rave reviews on Saturday and Sunday, November 6 and 7, when hundreds of Grenadians packed the Grenada Trade Center to see the comedy which earned the dubious honor of being the first major cultural event since Hurricane Ivan devastated the island in September. By a twist of fate, the Grenada Trade Center was one of the few buildings that Ivan failed to demolish. “We hope that Ivan Roof-Us will help to relieve the stress that all Grenadians at home have endured and are enduring since September” says playwright Chris DeRiggs of the Heritage Theatre Company of Grenada. “The local production of Hurricane Roof-Us is a tremendous success.” Some of Grenada’s best comic personalities such as Wayne Bubb, Lisa Grappy, Deleon Walters, Robert Whyte and Deborah Gilchrist are in Ivan Roof-Us. Most cast members lost a roof; others had their homes severely damaged and a cast member’s grandfather passed on as a result of the brutal hurricane. Also among the players are Jamaican actress Jean Kelly Whyte and American Ayana Clarkson. “We are happy that we can give our nation and people in our sister islands such as Barbados, Tobago, Jamaica, St. Vincent and St. Lucia who also endured the wrath of Ivan something to make us all laugh and enjoy,” a thrilled DeRiggs said in a recent phone call to New York. Contrary to earlier plans, the play will no longer be performed in the Maryland/Washington area and the Bronx, as the cast can only do a limited tour. Total proceeds from the Brooklyn performance will be given to institutions helping children in hurricane-torn Haiti and Grenada. Tickets are $38 & $42, and are on sale at Brooklyn College Box Office, as well as by mail order and online at www.everybodysmag.com. Call (718) 941-1879 for additional information. If you cannot attend but would like to make a contribution, kindly send it to EVERYBODY’S Magazine, 1630 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11226. (No contribution is too small.) Source: Everybody’s Magazine