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FUN HOME
Beechmont Players
Nov. 8-16
Anderson Center Theatre [Anderson Township]

Directed by Arlene Balczo
Vocal Directed by Amy Prestridge
Produced by Kiya Fix & Michael Yarick

Cast: Betsy Bossart as Alison Bechdel, Dan Cohen as Bruce Bechdel, Sarah Cohen as Helen Bechdel, Rachel Scardina as Medium Alison, Gabi Homonoff as Joan, Michael Yarick as Roy/Pete/Mark/Bobby, Giselle Aagaard as Small Alison, Sam Level as Christian Bechdel & Pearl Gipson as John Bechdel

Based on a memoir by the same name, Tony Award winning Fun Home centers around graphic novelist Alison Bechdel’s relationship to her father. After his unexpected death, Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality, and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires. Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

• Fri-Sat, Nov. 8-9 at 7:30pm
• Sun, Nov. 10 at 2pm
• Thu-Fri, Nov. 14-15 at 7:30pm
• Sat, Nov. 16 at 2pm

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MOONLIGHTS AND MAGNOLIAS
Beechmont Players
Aug. 2-10
Anderson Center [Anderson Township]

Directed by Laura Berkemeier
Produced by Dan Cohen

Cast: Ron Mason as David O. Selznick, Mark Metzner as Ben Hecht, Keith Cassidy as Victor Flemming & Lisa White as Ms. Poppenghul

In 1939 Hollywood, legendary producer David O. Selznick has shut down production of his new epic, Gone with the Wind, a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel. The screenplay, you see, just doesn’t work. So what’s an all-powerful movie mogul to do? While fending off the film’s stars, gossip columnists and his own father-in-law, Selznick sends a car for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of The Wizard of Oz. Summoning both to his office, he locks the doors, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor over five days to fashion a screenplay that will become the blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time.

• Fri-Sat, Aug. 2-3 at 7:30pm
• Sun, Aug. 4 at 2pm
• Thu-Fri, Aug. 8-9 at 7:30pm
• Sat, Aug. 10 at 2pm

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