2021 – 2022 Season
2021-2022 Schedule
Fridays 7:30 PM, 1st Saturday 7:30 pm,
2nd Saturday 2:30pm, & Sundays 2:30 PM
The Big Five-Oh
Written by Brian Mitchell
Directed by Susan O’Connell
Auditions July 26 & 27, 2021
Performances Sep 10, (11th is Private Benefit), 12, 17, 18 & 19, 2021
Whoever said life is better after fifty had better be right! George Thomas is turning fifty on Saturday, and it has been a terrible week. His dog is sick, his son is a slacker, and his daughter wants to marry a Republican. With a neurotic wife and a widowed neighbor providing more challenges than even George can overcome, this may be the worst week of his life. Through these trying days, George will discover the wonders of family, the responsibilities of parenthood, and the results of his latest physical.
The Big Five-Oh is a hilarious, sometimes touching account of a grown man coming to terms with his age, his relationship with his son, and his future. It is the story of a middle-aged man finally growing up.
Let’s Murder Marsha
Written by Monk Ferris
Directed by Peggy McQuown
Auditions September 13 – 14, 2021
Performances Nov 5, (6th is Private Benefit), 7, 12, 13 & 14, 2021
A happy housewife named Marsha, hopelessly addicted to reading murder mysteries, overhears her loving husband discussing her upcoming birthday surprise with an interior decorator. To her ears, though, it sounds like they are planning to murder her! With the assistance of her next-door neighbor, she tries to turn the tables on them with a poisoned potion. When her own mother shows up for her birthday a day early, Marsha thinks she is in on the diabolical scheme. When her maid’s date, a policeman, shows up to take the maid out, Marsha thinks he is on to her poisoning attempt. Well, finally, just when you would think all this would be cleared up, Marsha’s intended victims discover what she has supposed, and decide to teach her a lesson by actually pretending to be murderers. This is a terrific show for family audiences who like their comedy broad, fast, and nonstop.
A Bad Year for Tomatoes
Written by John Patrick
Directed by Betty Neal
Auditions November 8 & 9, 2021
Performances Jan 7, (8th is Private Benefit), 9, 14, 15 & 16, 2022
Fed up with the pressures and demands of her acting career, the famous Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny New England hamlet of Beaver Haven and settles down to write her autobiography. She is successful in turning aside the offers pressed on her by her long-time agent, but dealing with her nosy, omnipresent neighbors is a different matter. In an attempt to shoo them away, and gain some privacy, Myra invents a mad, homicidal sister—who is kept locked in an upstairs room, but who occasionally escapes long enough to scare off uninvited visitors. The ruse works well, at first, but complications result when the local handyman develops an affection for “Sister Sadie” (really Myra in a fright wig) and some of the more officious ladies decide it is their Christian duty to save the poor demented Sadie’s soul. In desperation Myra announces that her imaginary sibling has suddenly gone off to Boston—which brings on the sheriff and the suspicion of murder! Needless to say, all is straightened out in the end, but the uproarious doings will keep audiences laughing right up to the final curtain, and then some.
2021-2022 Prices
Opening Night $10.00 & Single admission (everyone) $15.00
Group Discount available for 10 or more seats.
Leading Ladies
Written by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Sarah Gibbon
Auditions January 10 – 11, 2022
Performances March 4, (5th is Private Benefit), 6, 11, 12 & 13, 2022
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.
Bad Medicine
Written by Michael Tennant
Directed by Michael Tennant
There will be no auditions for this show.
Performances May 13, (14th is Private Benefit), 15, 20, 21 & 22, 2022
Ackley Hornsby is a very successful writer whose books about the evils of pharmaceutical companies are always international best sellers. You would think he has it all. Except he is a hypochondriac who is “affected” by every disease and health issue he can imagine. Also, because of his “condition”, he refuses to leave his apartment and isolates himself from the public. To make matters worse, his publisher won’t even put his real name or picture on his books. Instead, they list the author as “Brenton Love” while using a hunky male model in varying states of undress. When Ackley slips up and tells his publisher about a secret already completed book, things start going amiss. The manuscript is stolen and a Private Investigator is brought in to look for clues. Could someone from the book publisher or a pharmaceutical company have snatched it? Who is the mysterious doctor that visits Ackley twice a day bringing homeopathic remedies? Through all of this, will Ackley finally get a taste of his own “Bad Medicine”?