THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
THE ODD COUPLE
CRAZY HORSES
INHERIT THE WIND
MOVE OVER MRS. MARKHAM
THE JESTER PRINCE
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
LEGALLY BLONDE JR.
Auditions for DEARLY DEPARTED
Sunday, July 26th at 1pm and Monday, July 27th at 7pm
The Village Players of Fort Thomas
8 N Fort Thomas Ave, Fort Thomas, Kentucky 41075
Cold Readings from the script.
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: Firstborn 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. As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, “When I die, don’t tell nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you.” Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.
Performance dates are Feb. 12-20, 2016.
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RAGTIME
Commonwealth Artists Summer Theatre
July 17-26
Fort Thomas
Directed by Jason Burgess
Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in the United States in the early 20th century: African Americans, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; upper-class suburbanites, represented by Mother, the matriarch of a white upper-class family in New Rochelle, New York; and Eastern European immigrants, represented by Tateh, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia. Historical figures in the stories include Harry Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit, Booker T. Washington, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Stanford White, Harry Kendall Thaw, Admiral Peary, Matthew Henson, and Emma Goldman.
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