2019 – 2020 Season
2019-2020 Schedule
Fridays 7:30 PM, 1st Saturday 7:30 pm,
2nd Saturday 2:30pm, & Sundays 2:30 PM
Outward Bound
Written by Sutton Vane
Directed by Susan O’Connell
Auditions July 29 – 30, 2019
Performances Sep 20, (21st is Private Benefit), 22, 27, 28 & 29, 2019
An odd assortment of characters are passengers on an ocean liner, but no one can remember where they’re headed. The lovers have a secret that no one can know; the society lady can’t accept that there is only one class on board and she has to share a table with a low-brow charwoman for dinner; the young man drinks too much but sees through everything, and the mysterious ship steward seems to be the only crew member. When it’s revealed where the ocean liner is headed, each person plots to ensure their best outcome. But the Examiner who decides their fate is not willing to bargain. Outward Bound explores mortality and morality with light touches of social commentary and gallows humor.
The Miss Fire Cracker Contest
Written by Beth Henley
Directed by Kami Martin
Auditions September 23 – 24, 2019
Performances Nov 15, (16th is Private Benefit), 17, 22, 23 & 24, 2019
The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (known locally as “Miss Hot Tamale”) is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest—hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation and allow her to leave town in a blaze of glory. The unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker winner, (who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and her two small children) complicates matters a bit, as does the repeated threat of Elain’s eccentric brother, Delmount, (recently released from a mental institution) to sell the family homestead and decamp for New Orleans. But, aided by a touchingly awkward seamstress named Popeye (who is hopelessly smitten by Delmount) and several other cheerfully nutty characters, Carnelle perseveres—leading to a denouement of unparalleled hilarity, compassion and moving lyricism as all concerned finally escape their unhappy pasts and turn hopefully toward what must surely be a better future.
A Tuna Christmas
Written by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, & Jaston Williams
Directed by Frank Siebke
There will be no auditions for this play.
Performances Jan 17, (18th is Private Benefit), 19, 24, 25 & 26, 2020
A Tuna Christmas is a broad comedy set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas. The plot centers on the town’s annual Christmas Yard Display Contest, won 14 times in a row by Vera Carp. A mysterious “Christmas Phantom,” known for vandalizing the yard displays, has the contestants on edge. Among the subplots are Stanley Bumiller’s attempts to end his probation and leave Tuna, Bertha Bumiller’s struggle to hold her family together at Christmastime, and Joe Bob Lipsey’s fight to mount successfully his production of A Christmas Carol despite the town controller of the electric company threatening to turn the lights off. The play is both an affectionate commentary and withering satire of small town, Southern life and attitudes. A Tuna Christmas is the second in a series of comedic plays set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas. (The play is preceded by Greater Tuna and followed by Red, White and Tuna and Tuna Does Vegas.) Two actors play all 20 zany characters.
2019-2020 Prices
Opening Night $10.00 & Single admission (everyone) $15.00
Group Discount available for 10 or more seats.
Come Blow Your Horn
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Matt Riggle
Auditions January 20 – 21, 2020
Performances Mar 13, (14th is Private Benefit), 15, 20, 21 & 22, 2020
What does it mean to “grow up?” When does it happen? And, does everyone have the same experience? Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical play, Come Blow Your Horn examines all of these questions through the lens of the Baker Family. There is Mr. Baker, who began working at age eleven and was married at twenty-one; Alan, his eldest son, is a thirty-three-year-old confirmed bachelor and womanizer; Buddy, the youngest, is Alan’s opposite — hard-working, obedient, reserved, and unsure; Mrs. Baker is adept at the art of emotional manipulation and is prone to hysterics. Throughout the course of the play, the family struggles to understand and adjust to one another, as the two sons begin to grow up, and the parents realize that they are growing old.
Leading Ladies
Written by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Sarah Gibbon
Auditions March 16 – 17, 2020
Performances May 8, (9th is Private Benefit), 10, 15, 16 & 17, 2020
In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo, two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing “Scenes from Shakespeare” on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren’t nephews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements abound, especially when Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady’s vivacious niece, Meg, who’s engaged to the local minister. Meg knows that there’s a wide world out there, but it’s not until she meets “Maxine and Stephanie” that she finally gets a taste of it.