It's game on for poker-faced bob Bob Eubanks is still playing games.
Staff Reporter TheProvince.com Sunday, July 06, 2008
The onetime host of TV's The Newlywed Game has been a disc jockey, a concert promoter (he mortgaged his house to finance a 1964 Beatles gig at L.A.'s Hollywood Bowl) and sometime actor -- but he always comes back to that game-show format of quizzing a panel of regular people.
"You always get surprises," says Eubanks, who has been touring North America with the live stage show The $250,000 Game Show Spectacular. With two shows tomorrow at Coquitlam's Red Robinson Show Theatre, it's an audience-participation mix of eight different Q&A games from the risque Newlywed-type questions to Name That Tune and The Price is Right.
"People are wonderful," says the 70-year-old host, whose original Newlywed Game made for titillating viewing back in the 1960s. "It's amazing what they'll say onstage -- it's almost like it's permission for them to tell their private secrets."
The show just played seven months at the Las Vegas Hilton, and Eubanks heads to Atlantic City later in July.
For the Vancouver shows contestants enter to get tickets to be part of the audience. Last chance to enter is at the theatre's Boulevard Casino at least an hour prior to each show. Contestants are then called up randomly from the audience to play the various games, and get a chance at prizes of up to $250,000.
"The neat thing about this show is, it's not just a prize show it's an entertainment show," says Eubanks. "It really is funny."
But no matter what anybody says onstage, Eubanks won't lose his, er, poker face: "I don't lose it ever, don't do that."
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On Stage
The $250,000 Game Show Spectacular
Where: Red Robinson Show Theatre, 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam
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