2010-11 Shows
The SUMMER and THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY shows
are NOT INCLUDED in our Season Ticket Package.

This fast paced farce concerns a con artist (Eric) who lost his job two years ago, is afraid to tell his wife, and has been defrauding the welfare authorities with every possible trick and collecting thousands in welfare payments. One day Jenkins (a government employee) comes by to check up on how all these benefits can be paid to the same address. Then other government employees show up. Eric creates stories for his wife, the government workers and enlists help from his upstairs lodger, Norman, and his Uncle George to participate in his deceptions. There is cross dressing, a dead body, and mistaken identities. Nabbed in the end, Eric confesses and instead of jail time gets an offer from the government to work for them because he knows all the tricks!

Mrs. Stancliffe's Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast has been successful for many years. Her guests (nearly all women) return year after year. Her next door neighbor, the elderly, silver-tongued, Bud "Bud the Stud" Davis believes they come to spend time with him in romantic liaisons. The prim and proper Mrs. Stancliffe steadfastly denies this, but really doesn't do anything to prevent it, and reluctantly accepts the fact that "Bud the Stud" is, in fact, good for business. Her other neighbor and would-be suitor Henry Mitchell is a retired chemist who has developed a blue pill called "Venusia," after Venus (the goddess of love) to increase the libido of menopausal women. The pill has not been tested. Add to the guest list three older women: Victoria Ambrose, a romance novelist whose personal life seems to be lacking in romance; Hillary Hudson a friend of Henry's who has agreed to test the Venusia: and Charmaine Beauregard, a "Southern Belle" whose libido does not need to be increased! When "Bud the Stud" gets his hands on some of the Venusia pills, the fun begins as he attempts to entertain all three women! But they soon discover that the pills have a strange effect on men: it gives them all the symptoms of menopausal women, complete with hot flashes, mood swings, weeping and irritability!

THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Always…Patsy Cline
Musical
Auditions: TBA
Performances: Nov. 19, 20, 21*, 26, 27, & 28*
Artistic Director: Ted Pack
Musical Director: Lizzie Brahm-Kriger

Always ... Patsy Cline is based on the true story of Patsy Cline's friendship with a Houston housewife and avid fan, Louise Seger. They met before a show in 1961 and began a friendship that lasted until Cline's untimely death at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963. The show takes its name from Patsy's sign off on her letters to Louise. Each correspondence between them ended the same way: "Always ... Patsy Cline." The show features more than 20 of Cline's most memorable numbers including "I Fall to Pieces," "Crazy," "Anytime," Walkin' After Midnight, and "Sweet Dreams," to name a few. A musical tribute to one of the most influential, successful and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century.

Henry A. Perkins, a mild mannered C.P.A, accidently picks up the wrong briefcase and discovers it's filled with money. Henry assumes it is illicit cash so he decides to keep it. Knowing that the former owner must have his briefcase and address, Henry rushes home to book one way fares to Barcelona before he tracks him down. He tells his confused wife to leave everything behind; if she doesn't like Barcelona, they can go to Bali. In fact, they can buy Bali! The doorbell rings as they wait for their taxi. The police detective at the door thinks Henry was soliciting in the men's room of the local pub. (Actually, he was sitting in the loo counting the cash.) The bell rings again and another detective arrives to tell his wife Henry is dead because a man with bullet holes in his head and Henry's briefcase were found in the Thames. Henry creates all kinds of stories as he tries to keep the detectives from discovering his secret while his wife just keeps drinking! Henry's inept attempts to extricate himself from this impossible situation lead to increasingly hysterical situations in this fast paced farce. Hysterical!

Based on the plays of Plautus, "Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight!" Broadway's greatest farce is light, fast-paced, witty, irreverent and one of the funniest musicals ever written, the perfect escape from life's troubles. "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" takes comedy back to its roots, combining situations from time-tested, 2000 year-old comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville. The result is a non-stop laugh fest in which a crafty slave (Pseudolus) struggles to win the hand of a beautiful but slow-witted courtesan (Philia) for his young master (Hero), in exchange for freedom. Songs include "Comedy Tonight," "Lovely," and many more! A Tony award winner!

Annie Nations, an indomitable Appalachian widow of 79, lives on her mountain farm with the acerbic ghost of her husband, Hector. Her tranquility is threatened by a brash real estate developer who wants to turn her land into a vacation resort and by concern over her son, Dillard, a country singer who has come home with two stranded children because his wife has run away. Annie's battle to decide her future takes her through some funny, touching and magical flashbacks to her life with Hector. Dillard, still singing the music which used to infuriate his father, has an exuberant scene in which the audience becomes his public at a fairground concert. Can Dillard woo his mother away from the recalcitrant ghost? Will development swallow up the family farm? Only Annie can decide. Played on Broadway by Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, this play offers a staunchly affirmative tribute to mountain folk.

The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist, Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium," one Madame Arcati. As the worldly and un-worldly personalities clash, Charles' current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed, "passes over," joins Elvira and the two "blithe spirits" haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.