“The thing you need for marriage to work is having someone who can stand you,” said John Forster, sharing advice from his grandmother which he had worked into a jingle.

Mr Forster, seated at a piano and performing the humorous song for guests gathered in the Edmond Town Hall Theatre Saturday evening, February 8, gave a brief performance during a Flagpole Radio Café show that night.

The Valentine’s Day- and relationship-themed show included music and comedy performed by an ensemble of local artists. The Flagpole Radio Orchestra musicians are Jim Allyn, Rick Brodsky, Howie Bujese, Cadence Carroll, Chris Durham, Dick Neal and Francine Wheeler, while the Flagpole Shakespeare Repertory Theatre includes actors Martin Blanco, Barbara Gaines, Kate Katcher, and David Wheeler.

“Sit back, relax, and enjoy,” Mr Blanco said in opening the show.

The theater group members stood before their old-fashioned, radio-show microphones, and ran through a skit about Johann Sebastian Bach, the German composer and musician born in 1685. The performers offered a humorous glimpse into the composer’s imaginary home life as his wife beckoned him to the bedroom, but he insisted he needed to write his music.

While the composer “struggles to bring forth his gifts … his wife waited for him … his passion.” The skit continued as his wife calls out, “I am waiting for you.” However, Johann Bach replied, “I soon to bed will come. I must, the music to finish.”

Theater members acted out the back-and-forth between husband and wife, until Johann finally hit upon a song and sang aloud: “C’mon baby light my fire,” then went to bed after calling his wife an “insufferable cow.”

Unfortunately, she said, “Not now Johann. I am tired.”

The theater troupe also ran through a “psychic detective” skit, where the flagpole had been stolen, and another skit about bad dates following a search on the “My Bitter Divorce” website.

Him: “Hi Kristen.

Her: “Um, Kirsten.”

Him: “Yeah, what I said, Kristen.”

On another date Kirsten calls a friend saying, “He calls himself Big Dog.”

Him: Lets out a howl.

The skit ends on her final failed dating attempt with a man that she discovers lives with his mother in a studio apartment with only a fold-out couch for sleeping.

Following the orchestra and theater acts, Mr Forster continued the relationship theme, among other songs and preambles he offered regarding his work.