A New Frontier

Crockett--When Fess Parker was storming across the TV screen as Davy Crockett many years ago, little did he know the effect it would have. It mightily impressed actor Lane Davies, right, and writer-director John Slade, for one thing. Separately and together, they’ve been wanting to do a stage piece about Crockett for a long time, the men said. Finally, using Crockett’s autobiography, letters and congressional speeches, Slade put together a one-man show about the frontiersman called “Crockett: by himself” with Davies playing the hero. It will have a trial run at the Two Roads Theatre the next two Saturdays. Davies, a Shakespearean actor and artistic director of the Santa Susana Repertory Company, is probably best known as the psychopathic time-traveler Tempus on “Lois and Clark,” and as the original Mason Capwell on NBC’s “Santa Barbara.” As a matter of fact, the short “Crockett” run at Two Roads is dictated by Davies’ scheduled appearance in Russia, where “Santa Barbara” is still playing, to meet the soap’s many fans there. “Crockett” will probably settle in for a longer stay when Davies returns.

* “Crockett, by himself,” Two Roads Theatre, 4348 Tujunga Ave., Studio City. Sat., 8 p.m. Ends April 12. $16. (818) 766-9381.