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Season tickets for 2010 will soon be available.  Please check back regularly for more  information.

 

THE ODD COUPLE

by Neil Simon, Director Jonathan Houston

This classic comedy opens as a group of guys assemble for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it's no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrival is Felix Unger who has just been separated from his wife. Since he is very fastidious and none too tense, they fear he might commit suicide and go about locking all the windows. As the action unfolds, the clean-freak and the slob ultimately decide to room together with hilarious results as The Odd Couple is born.

 

April 24, 25, 30 and  May 1, 2 at 8pm and April 26 at 3pm

 

 

KEEP ON THE SUNNYSIDE

by Douglas Pote, Director Jimmy O. Burdetten

The songs and story of the original Carter Family. The love story that made country music famous — A.P., Maybelle and Sara Carter are brought to life in this telling look at the lives and music of the Carter Family and the historic Bristol Sessions recordings. Centered around the great love of A.P. for Sara, which produced such distinctive, enduring songs as Will the Circle be Unbroken, Wildwood Flower, My Clinch Mountain Home and the perennial favorite, Keep on the Sunny Side.

 

August 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22 at 8pm and August 9, 16, 23 at 3pm

MO' BLUES

 

Back by popular demand - two performances of "Cooper and Friends Sing Mo' Blues"

 

Exciting blues and blues-inspired songs from many of your favorite local performers and other great musicians.

 

All tickets are only $10

 

August 28th and 29th at 8pm

DEARLY DEPARTED
by David Bottrell & Jessie Jones, Director Pat Shull

In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpin’s other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents. As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, “When I die, don’t tell nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you.” Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.

 

October 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 at 8pm and October 4, 11 at 3pm.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK
by Stephen Mallatratt
Director Jimmy O. Burdette

A summoned young solicitor becomes obsessed after he keeps seeing brief and unexpected appearances of the unbilled Woman in Black while attending the funeral of an elderly widow who lived alone. This is a fall theatre classic that has 'spine chiller' reputation that makes it an absolute must see! 

 

October 30, 31 at 8pm & Midnight, November 6, 7 at 8pm and a 3pm show on November 8.

Prices for this special performance will be $15 for Adults, $13 for Seniors and $8 for Students with a $2 refund/discount for anyone who comes in costume to the midnight shows.

Remember: Ticket discounts for dressing as your favorite Halloween character at the midnight shows!

SHOWTIME AT FIRST BAPTIST
by Ron Osborne
Director Jimmy O. Burdette

ECP is proud to announce that it is the first community theatre in the country (other than Barter Theatre in Virginia) to obtain the rights to perform the premier of this show! First Baptist of Ivy Gap’s 100th anniversary picnic was a smashing success, except for one little thing: the bolt of lightning that struck the church’s steeple, igniting a fire that destroyed the sanctuary and so much more. In the wake of the disaster, key women of the church – led by Edith, the pastor’s unflappable wife – gather in what’s left (the fellowship hall) to commiserate and try to put things back together. To raise spirits and funds for rebuilding, the women ultimately plan a festive evening of entertainment designed to showcase the congregation’s talent. Could it be that some of Edith’s gang plan a song and dance number that might shock the congregation? If so, how will they circumvent the authority of the all-male super-conservative board of deacons, not to mention, one of their own? Change is in the air as these six diverse women challenge institutions as well as each other. Along the way, there are laughs to be shared, battles to be fought, love to be won, relationships to be mended, and losses to be grieved.

 

The Cross Creek Band will be performing a Country Christmas Jamboree before the show!

 

 December 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19 at 8pm and

December 6, 13, 20 at 3pm

CLAY ROSS
9th Annual Reunion Concert

 

T.L. Hanna High School graduate, South Carolina native, U.S. Jazz Ambassador, and world renowned guitarist will be performing two Brazilian Bluegrass shows
here at the Electric City Playhouse.

Imagine the sound of a Brazilian Carnaval in the Appalachian Mountains. A sound where exotic percussion instruments rumble beneath blues drenched vocals, telecaster twangs, and folksy fiddle tunes. Now, imagine these sounds in the hands of some of NYC’s finest young improvisers as they light up club and festival stages world wide.

 

December 22, 2009 - 8PM & 10PM

Adults $15/Students $10