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Our adult shows run for three weekends (9 performances); our children & teen shows
run for two weekends (6 performances).
Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. for Friday and Saturday evening performances and 2:00 p.m. for Sunday matinees.
Perusal scripts will be available at the front desk of the Lake Wales Public Library for two weeks prior to auditions for
each show.
The Children's Production
Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland
adapted by Tim
Kelly
September 12 – 21
Director yet to be determined Alice journeys into a world
of talking animals, comic royalty and races where the contestants run in circles! There's the Mad Hatter's frantic
tea party, the watch-carrying White Rabbit and talking flowers. Along the way Alice must deal with a sneezing duchess and
a baby that turns into a pig! The finale has Alice watching a trial, but she suddenly finds herself the accused! ALICE gives
a modern view to an old classic, where nonsense makes quite good sense.
The Adult Season
Production #1
Lover’s Leap by Bill Daily
November 7 – 23
Directed by Ves Spindler
This madcap
farce is set in a Chicago hotel. George is about to embark on his first extra marital affair when he sees a man on the window
ledge getting ready to jump. George persuades him to go back to his room and turns his attention back to Amy when a woman
comes crawling along the ledge escaping from someone who has fetishes involving ropes, camera equipment and whipped cream.
George regains the romantic mood just as his wife and Amy's husband arrive.
Production #2
Kitchen Witches by Caroline Smith
January 10 – February 1
Directed by Danny Baynard
Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two "mature"
cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Stephen Biddle dated one and married
the other. When circumstances put them together on a TV show called The Kitchen Witches, the insults are flung harder than
the food! Dolly's long-suffering TV-producer son Stephen tries to keep them on track, but as long as Dolly's dressing
room is one inch closer to the set than Isobel's, it's a losing battle, and the show becomes a rating smash as Dolly
and Isobel top both Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer!
Production #3
The Messenger
by Joan Kufrin
March 13 – 29
Angela hasn't married.
She still lives with her dotty, demanding, semi-lovable parents. Childhood polio has left her with a limp and a drab outlook
on life. Sudden true love enters her life in the form of a handsome, charming man who is the age of her father. Her buttinsky
family including her younger sister are suspicious of the new love and want to talk her out of the whirlwind romance. Therein
lies the struggle. Will love and truth triumph? A deliciously satisfying romantic comedy with overtones of universal heartache
for lost dreams.
* Teen Show *
Trouble in Tumbleweed
by Tim Kelly
June 19 – 28
Director yet to be determined
Get set for a wild romp suggested by one of the greatest farces ever written. This cockeyed version
takes us to Arizona Territory in the 1880s and the dusty town of Tumbleweed. The pompous Mayor Oates has been hired by a Boston
businessman to build a town that one day will be the Territory's capital. To fill the local positions--sheriff, schoolmarm,
doctor--he hires his incompetent relatives (kickbacks included, of course!). The news that a Pinkerton detective is coming
from Boston to inspect the town's development throws the whole family into a panic. Since they've been pocketing the
businessman's money, the town hall is nothing but a hole in the ground and the schoolhouse has no roof. A Medicine Show
huckster, Professor Burns, is stranded in town because his dancing bear has tangoed away. The relatives assume the professor
is the detective and he is only too happy to take advantage of their mistake. Together with the glamorous cardsharp, Lily
de Lilac, he has the relatives tripping over one another in hysterical attempts to bribe him. Just when you think the dust
is settling, who should turn up but the real detective. The hilarious twists and turns in the plot will have you holding onto
your hat (and your sides)!
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