Flatwoods announces shows for summer season
FLATWOODS – Flatwoods Productions will present three shows for the 2007 summer season. All shows will be performed at the Curfew Grange, located at the corner of Route 201 South and Buena Vista Road, across from the cemetery in Flatwoods.
Each show will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday with a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday. Dinner will be available before all shows with a reservation. Dinner choices will be stuffed chicken breast or roast beef. For reservations and more information, call 724-785-6896.
First up will be the Broadway fable “Gypsy” based on the memoirs of Miss Gypsy Rose Lee. The musical follows the careers of Rose and her daughters, June and Louise, as they trudge through every two-bit vaudeville house in the country.
Eventually, June runs away, and the pitiful remains of the act wind up on the bill of a burlesque joint.
The shy Louise finds her niche as a stripper and becomes the fabulous Gypsy Rose Lee. Show dates are June 29, 30 and July 1.
July brings the musical “Radio Gals” Based on a true story, a high school music teacher, Hazel Hunt, retires and receives as a retirement gift a radio transmitter.
So she and some of her talented students set up radio station WGAL. A couple of longtime friends, who happen to be bank robbers are amidst the girls also hiding out in disguise.
All seems to be going well until a Mr. O.B. Abbot arrives from Washington having been sent by Herbert Hoover to shut the station down.
It seems they have been jumping around on the air waves, interfering with other broadcasts. Will Hazel and the girls end up in jail? Find out on July 13-15.
Finishing up in August will be the great comedy “Drop Dead!” about a group of has-been actors trying to put on a murder mystery play.
By the end of act one a real murder has occurred, and the actors must spend most of act two trying to solve it and stay alive.
A cross between the “Carol Burnett Show” and “Noises Off,” it will have everyone howling in their seats during the dog days of summer. Show dates are Aug. 3-5.
For more information about any of the shows, auditions, or dinner theater, call 724-785-6896.