Thomaston Public Library Hosts Saltwater Film Society Screening of Waiting for Guffman, Thursday, January 23, 6:30 PM

Thomaston, Maine - The title an obvious reference to Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, Waiting For Guffman is a mockumentary film by actor/director Christopher Guest of Spinal Tap fame. The film centers on the fictional town of Blaine, Missouri. A group of delusional townspeople, led by the eccentric director Corky St. Clair (played by Guest), are preparing to put on a show entitled Red, White, and Blaine, a musical chronicling the town's history to be performed in honor of the town's sesquicentennial.

The film follows the comically disastrous results of St. Clair's attempts to put on a show with no talent and a shoe-string budget, with musical numbers like "Nothing Ever Happens on Mars," a reference to the town's one-time UFO visitation, and "Stool Boom," a song that explain the town's epithet, "the stool capital of the United States."

The film will be shown in Room 200 of the Thomaston Academy Building.

For more information about the Saltwater Film Society, please see their website, http://www.saltwaterfilmsociety.org/.

The Thomaston Public Library is located at the old Academy Building at 60 Main St. in Thomaston. Parking is located at the rear.