2018 – 2019 Season
2018-2019 Schedule
Fridays 7:30 PM, 1st Saturday 7:30 pm,
2nd Saturday 2:30pm, & Sundays 2:30 PM
Angel Street (GASLIGHT)
Written by Patrick Hamilton
Directed by Susan O’Connell
Auditions August 6 – 7, 2018
Performances Sep 21, (22nd is Private Benefit), 23, 28, 29 & 30, 2018
Angel Street (GASLIGHT) focuses on a seemingly normal couple, the Manninghams. It turns out that the suave Jack Manningham is slowly torturing his wife, Bella, into insanity under the guise of kindness. Soon, Bella is visited by a Scotland Yard inspector, Roughy. He convinces her that her husband is a maniacal criminal wanted for a murder committed 15-years-ago. Bella gains confidence in herself as she and the inspector work together to build up evidence against Jack.
Buying The Moose
Written by Michael G Wilmot
Directed by C.A. Conn
Auditions September 24 – 25, 2018
Performances Nov 30, (Dec 1st is Private Benefit), 2, 7, 8 & 9, 2018
Rob’s wife picked the most inconvenient moment to come home from a business trip. While strains of Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers play, Betty finds him wearing a tube top and awkwardly canoodling with an inflatable doll. She assumes the worst and turns to her sister-in-law, Cheryl, for comfort while his brother, Greg, comes over to set him straight. The resulting hilarious fallout brings two brothers and two couples closer together…and tattooed! What could easily be a simple dumb sex farce instead becomes an entertaining character-driven ensemble comedy piece. Wilmot’s script is funny above all, but also perceptive, pointed, and, on occasion, even insightful.
Inherit the Wind
Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Directed by Frank Siebke
Auditions December 3 – 4, 2018
Performances Jan 25, (26th is Private Benefit), 27, Feb 1, 2 & 3, 2019
Inherit the Wind is a fictional version of the 1925 Scopes Trial. Scopes was convicted for teaching evolution to a high school class. In Tennessee, state law prohibited teaching evolution. The play is meant to criticize the anti-Communist investigations that took place in the U.S. The authors used the Scope’s trial as a platform to explore threats to learning and intellectual freedom. One of the most outstanding dramas of our time.
2018-2019 Prices
Opening Night $10.00 & Single admission (everyone) $15.00
Group Discount available for 10 or more seats.
Death By Golf
Written by Gregg Kreutz
Directed by Peggy McQuown
Auditions Jan 28 – 29, 2019
Performances Mar 15, (16th is Private Benefit), 17, 22, 23 & 24, 2019
When an escaped convict, an anxious bride, a scheming new husband, and a suspicious attorney all convene at Grandpa’s house–it doesn’t take long for Grandpa to realize he has to reschedule his golf game. This lively combination of uproarious comedy and terrifying murder mystery revolves around the uncanny resemblance between escaped convict Tony and recent bridegroom Prescott (both played by the same actor). Newlywed Ashley’s desperate attempt to figure out who is the real murderer is sometimes helped and sometimes hindered by her golf-fanatic grandfather and a mysterious visiting attorney named Muriel. As the suspense mounts and the violence intensifies, Ashley slips into increasing hysteria, Muriel discovers the murderer’s evil agenda, and Grandpa, drawing upon an unsuspected hidden reserve of inner strength, fine-tunes his stroke.
Black-Eyed Susan
Written by Douglas Jerrold
Directed by Michael Tennant
Auditions Mar 18 – 19, 2019
Performances May 10, (11th is Private Benefit), 12, 17, 18 & 19, 2019
Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs is a comic play in three acts by the father of nautical melodrama, Douglas Jerrold. The drama revolves around William, a sailor who returns to England after fighting in the Napoleonic Wars for three years. He finds that his wife, Susan, has fallen on hard times and is being harassed by her cruel landlord and uncle, Doggrass. She is also being pursued by the smuggler Hatchett, who devises a plan to falsely inform Susan that William is dead so that he can make advances upon her himself. Music will be interwoven within the production for this sure to be a crowd pleaser.
Bedtime Stories (As Told by Our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up)
Written by Ed Monk
Directed by Laura Cherland
Auditions Jun 3 – 4, 2019
Ages 8 – 18
Performances Jun 28 & 29, 2019
It’s Dad’s turn to tell his three rambunctious kids their bedtime stories, but when he gets fuzzy on the details, the classics get creative: a prince with a snoring problem spices up The Princess and The Pea, The Boy Who Cried Wolf cries dinosaur instead, and Rumpelstiltskin helps turn all that pesky gold into straw. You may think you know your fairy tales, but not the way Dad tells them.
2018-2019 Special Event
Fundraiser for RHP
‘Night, Mother
Written by Marsha Norman
Directed by John Leon
Performances July 26, 27, & 28, 2019
On a seemingly normal evening, we meet Thelma Cates (Mama), an aging mother and widow who lives with her daughter, Jessie. Jessie is the divorced mother of a hoodlum son, who – unsatisfied and depressed – struggles with life as an unemployed epileptic. On this night, Jessie comes into the room asking her mother about the whereabouts of her father’s old revolver. When Jessie finds it in the attic, she confesses to her mother that she is going to kill herself. Tonight. At first, Mama laughs it off, thinking Jessie is just making a sick joke. But, as Jessie makes her way around the house, organizing, making lists, and teaching Mama her responsibilities, it soon becomes clear that it is not. As Mama pleads for Jessie to reconsider her decision, old secrets are revealed and long-ignored feelings rise to the surface. The mother-daughter bond between Jessie and Mama becomes stronger and lovelier than ever, making it possible for Jessie to end her noisy, cluttered existence, and enter a quieter, calmer life with closure and love.