Old Church Theater’s 2014 Season! Great shows from May through September! Visit oldchurchtheater.org for general info, season tickets**, audition times/locations “Everybody Loves Opal” comedy By John Patrick May 2,3,4 & 9,10,11 Directed by Scott Johnson Opal is a middle-aged recluse, lives in a tumbledown mansion at the edge of the municipal dump. She likes to collects things—anything that can be toted home in her little red wagon! Shes also an optimist, for no matter how mean her lot—or sinister her friends —Opal responds with unfailing kindness and an abiding faith in the goodness of human nature. Into her rather strange world come three crooks, broke and on the lam from the authorities, and her place is the perfect hideout! The trio takes out insurance on her and then concoct an elaborate scheme to kill her to collect the insurance money, but their plan backfires in every way possible and through it all, Opal radiates kindness, affection and even gratitude. This show is a real audience pleaser with laugh-out-loud fun for the whole family! “Cookin With Gus” comedy By Jim Brochu June 6,7,8 & 13,14,15 Directed by Barbara Swantak Gussie is a famous food columnist and cookbook author. Her agent comes to tell her shes been offered her own daily network television show. She wants to do it, but her husband Walter is dead set against it and Gussie discovers she has stage fright and cant open her mouth in front of a camera. Everybody tries to help her get over it . . .. Walter through hypnotism, Bernie her agent by threats; and even wacky Gypsy Carmen from next door casts spells. Finally, at the taping of the show, everything breaks lose in a stew of hijinks and hilarity. Sure to be a great evening of roll-in-the-aisle laughs! “Mornings at Seven” comedy By Paul Osborne July 11,12,13 & 18,19,20 Directed by Sheila Kaplow The play is a quirky tale of small town life in the 1930’s --- it is full of comedy and truths that are as alive today as they were when the play was written… The action takes place in the backyard of two adjoining houses occupied by sixty-year old sisters Cora and Ida (and their husbands Thor and Carl). Another sister lives with one of the couples and a fourth sister and her husband live nearby. Suddenly, their calm life is interrupted by the long-overdue announcement by Homer, Ida and Carl’s forty year old son, that he is bringing his long-time fiancée to meet the family. This event releases a cascade of changes in the family dynamics, revelations and humorous complications. “Little Women” the famous novel by Louisa M. Alcott Apapted for the stage by Peter Clapham August 15,16,17 & 22,23,24 Directed by Gloria heidenreich Louisa M. Alcotts famous novel is so well known and loved that little more needs to be said. But this stage version of the story faithfully follows the book, interweaving the lives of the sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, and Laurie, and the boy next door, as they grow up during civil war times. All the overtones of gaiety and the undertones of sadness are here, bringing the story completely to life and a real treat to see live on stage! “Caught in the Act(s)” short plays September 19,20,21 & 26,27,28 Various Directors Look forward to a series of short plays to end the season! **Save 20% purchasing season tickets before April 1st ($40.00)! That’s a whole show for free! After that it’s $45.00 anytime through the year, still a great buy! Old Church Theater is a community organization open to participation by all, and is fully non-profit under state and federal law: Donations are gratefully accepted
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:34:21 +0000