Join us on stage, back stage, and in the seats surrounding the stage
Community Theatre
2019 Season
For The Love Of Wadsworth
With Sentimental Melodies
Show Dates:
February 8th & 9th, 2019
At Grace Lutheran Church
Join us for a night of music and romance.
Bus Stop
By: William Inge
Director: Brenton Cochran
Show Dates:
April 11th, 12th, 13th, & 14th, 2019
At The Strand
Synopsis:
In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She's been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she's ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, "Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I'm gonna end up in Montana …" As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's
Mary Poppins Junior
A Musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers & the Walt Disney Film
Original Music & Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
Book by Julian Fellowes
New Songs and Additional Music & Lyrics by George Stiles & Anthony Drewe
Co-Created by Cameron Mackintosh
Adapted by iTheatrics under the supervision of Timothy Allen McDonald
Director: Cory Ott
Musical Director: Linda McNamara
Show Dates:
July 19th, 20th, & 21st, 2019
At O.J. Work Auditorium
Synopsis:
The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family members how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren't the only ones upon whom she has a profound effect. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that "Anything can happen if you let it."
Steel Magnolias
By: Robert Harling
Director: Brenton Cochran
Show Dates:
September 12th, 13th, 14th, & 15th, 2019
At Concordia At Sumner
Synopsis:
The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town's rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, ("I'm not crazy, I've just been in a bad mood for forty years"); an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M'Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby (the prettiest girl in town), is about to marry a "good ole boy." Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.
Three Wee Kings
By: Joseph H. Hopkins Jr.
Directors: Linda McNamara & Debbie Lake
Show Dates:
December 14th &15th, 2019
At Grace Lutheran Church
Synopsis:
An adaptation of the well-loved story of the Magi who followed the star to find a King. This musical fantasy brings together the kings, shepherds, angels, donkeys, camels, goats, lambs, lions, and even talking stars. As the story unfolds each group asks themselves who will be THE King. The journey finally ends in the stable in Bethlehem. Songs include "Three Wee Kings", "Camel's Lament", "Carol to the Stars", and "This Is the King of Kings".