Cheaper By The Dozen - Cast ListAdapted by Christopher Sergel, from the book by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Feb. 18 - Mar. 6 Directed by Tiffany Dinsmore Set in the 1920s, this family classic has been delighting audiences for years. The Gilbreths are a large and unique family in which the father is one of the great pioneers of industrial efficiency, but who decides to apply the methods of business efficiency to the raising of his 12 children. The results, even if effective, are by turns embarrassing, amusing and highly entertaining. Needless to say, as the children come of age (oldest daughter, Anne, in particular), the drive for efficiency collides with the normal growing pains of adolescence and the order of the Gilbreth household comes comically undone. Featuring a cast of all ages, it´s great entertainment for the whole family. |
Southern HospitalityBy Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten May 6 - 22 Directed by Glenn Farr The Futrelle Sisters - Frankie, Twink and Honey Raye - are in trouble again. This time, their beloved hometown, Fayro, Texas, is in danger of disappearing. Ever since the Super SmartMart and the rendering plant closed, folks have been leaving Fayro in droves, but Honey Raye sees a gleam of hope: a salsa company is looking to relocate and she invites a representative to Fayro on a scouting mission. But to impress the rep, Honey Raye makes a series of outrageous promises on which the rest of the town must deliver. Meanwhile, Twink might just finally make it to the altar, while Frankie must contend with rambunctious five-year old twins and a husband in the depths of a major midlife crisis. This final installment in the Futrelle sisters saga, which follows CCT´s hit productions of Dearly Beloved and Christmas Belles, brings the story full circle and promises to deliver a full load of laughs along the way. |
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Curtain Up on Murder By Bettine Manktelow Sep. 16 - Oct. 2 Directed by Pam Godfrey As an amateur drama company rehearses in an old theatre at the end of a pier, many of the suspenseful elements of a murder mystery are present - a lovers´ triangle or two, people who aren´t exactly what they seem and storms raging overhead. Suddenly, the cast discovers the doors to the theatre are locked and they are trapped! When the assistant stage manager falls to certain death through a trap door, the remaining actors are thrown into disarray. Their panic increases when, one by one, members of the cast are murdered and it becomes evident that killer is in their midst. Whodunit? Who knows? Like many a good mystery, Curtain Up on Murder offers answers that will surprise you. |
A Nice Family GatheringBy Phil Olson Nov. 11 - Dec. 4 (dark on Thanksgiving weekend) Directed by Debra Leopard A Nice Family Gathering is a laugh-out-loud comedy with a lively, but heartwarming, script in which sibling rivalry and running gags abound. Set during a Thanksgiving weekend in Minnesota, the play pursues quite a bit of comically dysfunctional family lunacy as father and son disagree, another son must deal with his emotionally fragile wife and a sister with a secret she´s dying to share is ignored by everyone - all while Mom pretends everything is just fine. However, during its final moments, family members open their hearts and earnestly say what they've always wanted to share with each other, often catching each other completely, but pleasantly, by surprise. This "gathering" is a touching, bittersweet and very funny way to usher in the holidays. |
All Shows are at 8 p.m.
Ticket prices:
Adults $12, Senior Citizens $10 and Students $8
Second Samuel
by Pamela Parker
Directed by Debra Leopard
Oct 30 - Nov 15, 2008
Play On
By Rick Abbot
Directed by Perry Simpson
Feb 12-28
This is the hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance in which anything that can go wrong does. When the authoress decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax to a thoroughly hilarious romp.
Enchanted April
By Matthew Barber
Directed by Glenn Farr
May 7 - May 23
This 2003 Tony nominee for best play is a romantic comedy about four dissimilar English women who combine their resources to rent an Italian villa to escape the post-WWI gloom of Great Britain. Two young housewives initiate the month-long holiday to flee the emptiness of their marriages and are joined by an elderly widow, whose demanding disposition hides her loneliness, and a bored socialite with a secret of her own. When husbands and lovers finally track down the ladies, they find each, in her own way, has blossomed under the Mediterranean sun. The play also received a Tony nomination for best actress (Jane Atkinson as Lotty), was nominated as Best Play by the Drama League, and earned Outstanding New American Play honors from the Outer Critics Circle.
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Deathtrap |
Seemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a "dry" spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college - a thriller which Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway hit. Sidney's plan, which he devises with his wife's help, is to offer collaboration to the student, an idea which the younger man quickly accepts. Thereafter suspense mounts steadily as the plot begins to twist and turn with devilish cleverness, and with such an abundance of thrills and laughter, that audiences will be held enthralled until the final, startling moments of the play.
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Christmas Belles - Cast List |
Dearly Beloved, one of Chapin Community Theatre's most popular recent shows, serves as the basis for Christmas Belles. Six months after the events of Dearly Beloved, we find that fate has thrown yet another curve to the Futrelle sisters of Fayro, Texas. Twink, left standing at the altar by Wiley, piles his possessions on the lawn, sets fire to them, accidentally burns down half the town and lands in jail. Frankie, pregnant with twins, is way overdue and even crankier than usual. And Honey Raye has wrestled the church Christmas pageant away from Miss Geneva, who isn't very happy about it. Comic chaos reigns supreme when Dub Dubberly passes a kidney stone in the social hall, Patsy Price unintentionally gets high on his pain medication and Gina Jo accidentally ingests her engagement ring, all while the cast of the pageant is struck with food poisoning from the Band Boosters' pancake supper. Every bit as funny as Dearly Beloved, Christmas Belles will surely keep spirits high.