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2009 Shows

2008 Shows

 

MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW

by Douglas Pote

Director Jimmy O. Burdette

This funny and touching story delves into the backstage and personal life of two brothers, Ralph and Carter Stanley. It contains some of the great songs made famous by The Stanley Brothers - songs that will have you singin’ along and flat-footin’ in the aisles. It reveals their struggle to find an audience for their music. Folk, traditional gospel, and bluegrass were the music of their home in the hills of Virginia and they remained loyal to their roots. It includes their 2002 Grammy Award-winning songs from the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou”? Starring Upstate Bluegrass Musicians: Mitch and Perry Keown. Also, be sure to catch the pre-show featuring the Jimmy O Trio!

 

Feb 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27
Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 8 pm

and Sunday @ 3 pm

SO LONG ON LONELY STREET

By Sandra Deer

Director Joe Merck

A zesty poignant and fiercely funny comedy. In addition to this family’s turf battle, the plot also deals with the unexamined assumptions that most families live by. Family members have been suppressing some secret; and each member eventually realizes that some seeming impossibility has come to pass. While all the clever plotting is going on, the characters interact with rowdy humor, so integral to their personalities. Lonely Street seems more a slice of life than just a great play.

April 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, May 1, 2
Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 8 pm

and Sunday @ 3 pm

SOUTHERN COMFORTS
By Kathleen Clark

Director Richard Cowan

A sweet comedy about two seventy-ish singles who meet purely by chance, their common interest is baseball. Amanda, a petite, perky, grey-blonde church volunteer is charming, self-possessed, and shrewd. Her Southern accent and ways soon wear down the tough, Northern hide of Gus, who had suffered through a long, lonely marriage. The thought of sex, let alone a discussion of such, gives him hyperventilation. Yet, he eventually develops dependence and desire. The characters achieve a sense of intimacy and chemistry, both mutually and with their audience.

 

 

June 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13
Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 8 pm
and Sunday @ 3 pm

THE TAFFETAS
by Rick Lewis
Director Pat Shull

Musical Director Beverly Henderson

Journey back into a time when hula hoops were hot, angora sweaters were fashionable, and poodle skirts were the talk of the town. A quartet of sisters from Muncie, Indiana, are determined to sing their way onto national television to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Enjoy being a part of their debut studio audience as they knock your Bobbysocks off with a swell music revue of the 1950’s, including the hits “Johnny Angel”, “Mr. Sandman”, “You Belong to Me”, and many more. Be there for this Off-Broadway hit or be square!

 

Aug 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, Sept 3, 4, 5
Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 8 pm

and Sunday @ 3 pm

REHEARSAL FOR MURDER
adapted by D.D. Brooke

Director Jonathan Houston

This is a play about a play in which the leading lady was found dead shortly following opening night. The playwright (her fiancée) turns her death into his new play. This new play has been written to reveal that her death was, in fact, a murder - not a suicide. The tension AND the laughs increase as we discover that everyone connected with this play was involved. There are surprising revelations and humorous twists all along the way to solving this clever mystery.

 

Oct 21, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31
Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 8 pm

and Sunday @ 3 pm

 

PROFESSIONAL SKEPTICISM
by Jim Rasheed
Director Jim Rasheed

A comedy by local playwright, Jim Rasheed. centers on four auditors at a CPA firm. An audit scandal threatens to change these characters into headline-makers. This tale of office intrigue is funny, intense, and timely. It includes a variety of office personalities, including a sultry party girl. The dialogue is sharp and funny. It won the 2000-2001 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Best Original Play. It was published in “New Playwrights: The Best Plays Of 2002” and won critical acclaim for its run at Center Stage in Greenville. Rasheed is President of the Foothills Writers Guild.

 

Dec 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12
Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 8 pm

and Sunday @ 3 pm