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2016 Shows

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Comedy By Barbara Robinson
Directed by Rachael Lindley; Stage Manager: Wyatt Moore
Cast: Kathryn Baxter, Vicki Booker, Becky Byrley, Greg Davis, Lance Davis, Libby Goldman. Claire Hebert, Joseph Helmich, Sarah Helmich, Ava Johnson, Livi Johnson, Kerri Keith, Jackson Keith, Katelyn Keith, Michelle Morrow, Elizabeth Niksich, Steve Niksich, Riley Niksich, Parker Niksich, Lucy Pawkett, Spencer Pawkett, and Celt Ward


Due to extenuating circumstances, we will now open Saturday, December 10.
We appreciate your understanding.

December 9–31 (no show Dec. 24/25)
Friday, December 9, 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 10, 8:00 pm
Sunday, December 11, 2:00 pm
Thursday, December 15, 7:30pm
Friday, December 16, 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 17, 8:00 pm
Sunday, December 18, 2:00 pm
Thursday, December 22, 7:30 pm
Friday, December 23, 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 24 (No Performance)
Sunday, Decembe r25 (No Performance)
Thursday, December 29, 7:30 pm
Friday, December 30, 8:00 pm
Saturday matinee only, December 31, 2:00 pm
Sunday, January 1(No Performance)

Auditions: October 9/10
Directed by Rachael Lindley

In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids--probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem - and the fun - when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on!

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On Golden Pond
Drama By Ernest Thompson
January 22–February 7
Auditions: Dec. 20/21
Directed by Rachael Lindley
Cast: Eddy Herring, Karen Jordan, Budd Mahan, Leigh Wyatt Moore, Riley Niksich, and Steve Niksich

On Golden Pond is a classic American comedy/drama that's every bit as touching, warm, and witty today as when it debuted on Broadway in 1979. Retired couple Ethel and Norman Thayer spend every summer at their home on Golden Pond. This year, their adult daughter visits, bringing along her 13-year-old son. The turbulent relationship between father and daughter, the generation gap between young and old, and the difficulties facing a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage, all combine in a play that gives us unique insight into the modern American family.

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Dixie Swim Club
Comedy By Hopes, Jones, Wooten
March 18–April 3 (no show on Sunday, March 27)
Auditions: Jan 30/31
Directed by Rachael Lindley
Cast: Robin Coulonge, Debbie Deverich, Leigh Wyatt Moore, Heather Walker Shin, and Jennifer Stubbs

Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other's lives. The Dixie Swim Club focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years. Sheree, the spunky team captain, desperately tries to maintain her organized and 'perfect' life, and continues to be the group's leader. Dinah, the wise-cracking overachiever, is a career dynamo. But her victories in the courtroom are in stark contrast to the frustrations of her personal life. Lexie, pampered and outspoken, is determined to hold on to her looks and youth as long as possible. She enjoys being married - over and over and over again. The self-deprecating and acerbic Vernadette, acutely aware of the dark cloud that hovers over her life, has decided to just give in and embrace the chaos. And sweet, eager-to-please Jeri Neal experiences a late entry into motherhood that takes them all by surprise. As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. And when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of 'teamwork', rally 'round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction. The Dixie Swim Club is the story of these five unforgettable women - a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever.

The Column with John Garcia Review http://thecolumnonline.com/review/03-21-2016_THE-DIXIE-SWIM-CLUB/

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The Mousetrap
Mystery By Agatha Christie
May 13–29
Auditions: March 20/21
Directed by Rachael Lindley
Stage Manager: Will Frederick
Cast: Rusty Harding, Bobbi Keese, David Kelton, Julia Kendry, Thomas McKee, Collin Miller, Lloyd Webb, and Frank Wyatt

Eight people are snowed in at a guest house: Mollie and Giles Ralston, the owners; four invited guests, each with eccentric characteristics; the unexpected guest, who turns up out of the blue after his car overturns in the snow storm; and finally a skiing detective. Once everyone has arrived it is not long before a murder takes place and the detective assembles all the guests together and interrogates them one by one. Each avoid the truth, some by silence and others by lies? Can the murderer be caught before more deaths happen?

The Column with John Garcia Review http://thecolumnonline.com/review/05-18-2016_THE-MOUSETRAP/

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Due to unforeseen difficulties with production rights for Greater Tuna, we are now producing...
Red, White and Tuna
Comedy By Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams
July 15–31
Auditions: May 22/23
Directed by Rachael Lindley
Cast: Dan Evers (Actor's Equity) and Nathan Willard

Stage Manager: Hal Heath

The third installment in the Tuna trilogy takes the audience through another satirical ride into the hearts and minds of the polyester-clad citizens of Texas' third smallest town. Along with Tuna's perennial favorites, some new Tuna denizens burst into the 4th of July Tuna High School Class Reunion. This sets the stage for a show full of fireworks and fun from the land where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies.

It's been several years since we left Bertha and Arles dancing at the end of A Tuna Christmas...Did the romance blossom? Has Didi Snavley received any "cosmic" communications from R.R.'s UFO? Did Stanley make his fortune in the Albuquerque taxidermy business? These and other burning questions will be asked and answered in the side-splitting spoof of life in rural America.

"At first glance, it appears there are only two men in room" -- one slim and ferretlike, the other a big round fellow with a sweet, pillowy face. But sit down for a chat with Jaston Williams and Joe Sears -- the creators and stars of the hilarious, home-fried theatrical trilogy Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas and the current Red, White & Tuna, and before too long a host of others have horned in on the conversation. They all hail from the fictional burg of Tuna, the third smallest town in Texas. One's more of a fruitcake or troublemaker than the next. And each has a crystal-clear agenda. - The Washington Post

The Column with John Garcia Review http://thecolumnonline.com/review/07-20-2016_RED-WHITE-AND-TUNA/

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Auntie Mame
Comedy By Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee
September 2–18
Auditions: June 26/27
Director: Dena Dunn
Stage Manager: Jeremy Osborne
Cast: Emily Burgardt, Manuel C. Cruz, Debbie Deverich, Joan Eppes, Charlotte Giles, Amanda Carson Green, Steve Haid, Amber Harrington, Hal Heath, Sara Martin, Riley Niksich, Steve Niksich, Bill Olds, Jeremy Osborne, Kevin Paris, Steven Shaw, Richard Stephens, Glynda Welch, and Frank Wyatt

Roaring Twenties socialite Mame Dennis teaches her orphaned nephew the nature of free living and free thinking, attempting to keep him from the clutches of the uptight world of his late father's estate executor and, later, his fiancée, in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's adaptation of the Patrick Dennis novel.

Reviewed by Mark-Brian Sonna, Associate Critic for John Garcia's THE COLUMN
http://thecolumnonline.com/review/09-07-2016_AUNTIE-MAME/

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Senior Moments (replaces One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
Comedy By Barbara Nouvel
October 21–November 6
Auditions: September 11/12
Director: Rachael Lindley
Stage Manager: Nathan Freeman
Cast: Lise Alexander, Sebrena Walker Bohnsack, Germaine Royston Brown, Rusty Harding, Larry Horn, Budd Mahan, Elizabeth Niksich, Parker Niksich, Jane Talbert

A sometimes funny, sometimes poignant play about people in their golden years. Thelma Peters, a recently retired lady, finds herself bored with staying home after a lifetime of work. She decides to start a bridge game to reconnect with old friends. However, the game never really gets off the ground as one by one we are introduced to the characters and their unique personalities and own special interests.

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