The first show of Beavercreek Community Theatre’s 2012-2013 season has the BCT audience watching an audience (on the stage) watching an off Broadway play.
MUSICAL CHAIRS, directed by Matt Owens of Beavercreek, is a light-hearted musical featuring the diverse drama that takes place within the audience.
It runs September 7-16 with 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday performances and 3 p.m. Sunday matinees at Beavercreek Community Theatre, located within the Lofino Center at 3868 Dayton-Xenia Road in Beavercreek.
Playwright Joe Preston, portrayed by Nick Vanderpool of Dayton, has had a long dry spell.
As his producer, played by Suzanne Clabaugh of Belmont, tries to calm his nerves, in walks his ex-wife and TV star Valerie Brooks, played by Katie Blankenship of Dayton, who has no idea that their failed relationship figures into the show’s plot.
To add to Joe’s angst, the audience includes three theater critics portrayed by Krista Stuber of Huber Heights, Daryl Copeland of Dayton and Brian Kester of Beavercreek.
The diverse audience also includes two typical “grey-haired matinee ladies” portrayed by Terry Lupp and Donna Cason, both of Dayton and a married couple that argues constantly, played by Dayton residents Lynn Kesson and Michael Stockstill.
And then there is the anxious young man, played by Jordan Tyler Duvall of Miamisburg, waiting for his date while a club singer, played by Matt Curry of Belmont, tries to impress his date, portrayed by Sydney Lanier of Beavercreek, after bringing her to the show on his motorcycle in the rain.
A few seats away, a newly-wealthy business man, played by Kip Moore of Dayton, endures the “culture” his wife, played by Pam McGinnis of Oakwood, is forcing upon him.
The crew of MUSICAL CHAIRS includes choreographer Katie Kerry of Kettering, pianist Jenn Clark of Beavercreek, stage manager Heather Croley of Kettering, stage assistant Hans Unser of Beavercreek, set designer Chris Harmon of Centerville, lighting designer John Falkenbach of Dayton, lighting assistant Mercedes Warren of Beavercreek, music director Ben Spencer of Riverside, producer Diana Blowers of Beavercreek and costume designers Lora Beaty of Centerville and Noelle Carpenter of Kettering.
Tickets, which are $13 for adults and $11 for students, BCT members and seniors, can be reserved by calling (937) 429-4737 and leaving a message or by emailing boxoffice@bctheatre.org.
For more information, visit the theater’s Web site at http://www.bctheatre.org, where the tickets can be purchased online with a credit card.
Season passes for all seven shows are $78 for an adult or $60 for a senior, student or BCT member while passes for five shows are $59 and $44 respectively and for three shows the pass is $37 and $30.
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