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Nunsense by Dan Goggin--Winner of four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Off Broadway Musical in its original New York production. The show is a fund raiser put on by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidentally poisoned by the convent cook.
This
production is underwritten by the Franklin Community
Bank.
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Fools by Neil Simon--If you liked The Odd Couple, you won’t want to miss this Simon comedic gem. Leon Tolchinsky has landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic small town. When he arrives he finds people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with chronic stupidity and Leon's job is to break the curse. Why doesn't Leon leave? He has fallen in love with a girl so stupid that she has only recently learned how to sit down. "The brightest, freshest, funniest, wittiest, warmest and happiest to do on Broadway in many a day." CBS TV.
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| The World Is My Parish by R. Rex Stephenson and Michael Trochim--Winner of the Anna Award in 1997, The World Is My Parish brings to life the greatest evangelist and religious activist of the eighteenth century. Audiences can follow the development of John Wesley’s Christian character from failed love affairs, through his invention of the hot-water bottle, to his efforts to preach the gospel to the poor in the face of fierce opposition and personal tragedy. Spiced with humor, pathos, and historical fact, this newly revised play with music will entertain and inspire audiences. Underwriter: Eric Ferguson, Attorney |
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| Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming by Connie Ray, conceived by Alan Bailey with musical arrangements by Mike Craver--The Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre will be one of the first theatres in the nation to produce the third installment of this new Smoke on the Mountain series. It's October, 1945, and the gospel-singing Sanders Family is back together again. The war is over, but there's another kind of rite of passage at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, where Reverend Mervin Oglethorpe is giving his last service. He's been called to preach in Texas. Tomorrow morning, young Dennis Sanders takes over as Mount Pleasant's pastor. Join the Sanders Family as they send Mervin and June off in style, with hilarious and touching stories and twenty-five toe-tapping Bluegrass Gospel favorites. |
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Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer: A Musical adapted by R. Rex Stephenson with music by Emily Rose Tucker—The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, surely one of America’s most noteworthy novels, has captured attention of BRDT’s own Mark Twain, Rex Stephenson. He and Emily will adapt this classic tale of the trickster, Tom, to create a new musical version. BRDT audiences will enjoy the humor of Tom and Huck’s mischievous pranks, efforts to impress Becky Thatcher, their befriending of Injun Joe, and getting the fence whitewashed as area youth join the regular BRDT company in this musical production that is sure to be memorable. Underwriter: Nellie McCaslin Endowment.
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