Feb 9, 2007 3 min read

FLATWOODS – Flatwoods Productions announced the shows it will be presenting as part of its spring season. All shows are performed in the Curfew Grange, located across from the cemetery in Flatwoods, located at the corner of Route 201 south and Buena Vista Road.

Theater directors would like to thank everyone in the area for naming the theater in second place (after the State Theatre Center for the Arts in Uniontown) as the best place to see a live theater performance in the 2006 People’s Choice Awards. The theater will continue to strive to live up to this wonderful recognition as it plans its season.

Shows are performed for three performances, two evenings at 8 p.m. with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Dinner is available for an extra charge with the Saturday evening shows. Dinner theater requires a reservation.

Group rates for dinner theater are also available. Tickets are available at the door for all performances. Tickets also are available by calling 724-785-6896 or visiting the Web site at fptheater.com.

The season will begin on March 16-18 with a musical revue entitled “One Hundred Years of Broadway” and will feature music from the past hundred years from the early days of Broadway through Tin Pan Alley and up to the present day.

There will also be a special section devoted to the masters of musical theater – Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hanmmerstein, Lerner and Loewe and Kander and Ebb.

Also represented will be a selection of songs made famous by child performers through the years such as “Annie” and “Oliver!” A special St. Patrick’s Day Dinner will be available on the March 17 at 6 p.m. Coming up next will be a comedy entitled “Dearly Departed,” which will run on April 13-15. In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious.

Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpin’s other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: first-born Ray-Bud drinks himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents. Rounding out the spring and just in time for a Mother’s Day treat will be the new Broadway musical “Little Women” being presented on May 4-6. A special Mother’s Day Dinner will be available at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, before the show. It will be a perfect way to celebrate the holiday and the special bond between mother’s and daughters. The familiar story of Jo, her sisters, and their beloved MarMee will make audiences laugh and then move them to tears as the story continues and Jo finally finds love. The songs include: “Five for All Forever from Now On,” “Astonishing,” “The Most Amazing Thing” and “Small Umbrella in the Rain.”

Call 724-785-6896 or visit the theater’s Web site at www.FPtheater.com.