The Ransom Of Red Chief
Adapted by Anne Coulter Martens
Based on O'Henry's humorous classic about Bill and Sam who make the mistake of kidnaping a brat known as "Red." Brought up by a skinflint uncle and mean housekeeper, Red gladly leaves with the two strangers. The kidnappers are delighted but it is their last moment of peace. Red,or Red Chief, as he prefers to be called,now has two full-time playmates and keeps them hopping. While Bill sets about collecting the ransom, Sam tries to entertain Red Chief. It's tiring work and, finally, Sam's patience exhausted, he makes the mistake of getting Red mad. Red Chief's vengeance soon has Sam calling for help. Never were two hapless criminals so bitterly taken advantage of. Instead of a handsome ransom, they're going to have to pay what little they have for the privilege of returning the so-called victim.

 

 

 

 

 

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June  9  - 7:30 p.m.
June 10 - 2:00 p.m.
June 15 - 7:30 p.m.
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Over The River And Through The Woods
by Joe DiPietro
Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn't mean his family isn't still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he's been offered a dream job. The job he's been waiting for—marketing executive—would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn't sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family's love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely—and single—Caitlin O'Hare as bait…we won't give the ending away here.

 

 

 

 

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2011-2012 Season start time for shows is now
7:30 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

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Bob Smith & Bob Lowry
Commodore Villages

 

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Ticket Info
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March  10 -  7:30 p.m.
March  11 -  2:00 p.m.
March  16 -  7:30 p.m.
March  17 -  7:30 p.m
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A Tuna Christmas
by Jaston Willams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard

 

In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey's production of "A Christmas Carol" is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. A Tuna Christmas is a total delight for all seasons

"A hoot!"- The New York Times

"So funny it could make a racoon laugh affectionately at Davy Crockett.... It's far too good for just Christmas."-The New York Post

"The hilarity ... never lets up."- The Village Voice

 

 

 

 

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Otis & Glenda Griffin
 
Bethany Huffman C P A
 
Patriot Bank
 
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Cary & Lalania Vaughn

 

 

 

 

Arsenic And Old Lace

 

 

 

 

by Joseph Kesselring
Sponsored by
Karen Thompson
Crye-Leike Realtors

 

 

 

 

 

 

We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously "acceptable" roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the activities of the other brother—these require no further description or amplification here. Murder, misunderstandings and love all make for halarious situations.
2010 - 2011 Season
Playhouse 51

 

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