Mom and Dad aren’t going to have Christmas this year – or so they think. When their three grown-up children unexpectely return home Christmas Eve – and hide out down in the basememt with the barbed-wire, Barbies and BB gun – it seems that Christmas might just happen after all. “Some Assembly Required” is Eugene Strickland’s often hilarious but deeply moving portrayal of a dysfunctional family at Christmas. In 1995, this play was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award in Drama. Come and find out if a rubber chicken can really save Christmas?
Musical/Variety Show 2011
Enjoy our fundraiser event in January. Look forward to details coming soon.
SUDS
A Rocking 60’s Musical Soap Opera by Melinda Gilb
SUDS is a delightful musical story of a young teenage girl and the four guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. It takes place in a Laundromat during the sensational 60’s. SUDS is loaded with good clean fun, bubbling energy and over 50 well-known songs that tipped the charts of that decade, such as Please Mr. Postman, Respect, The Locomotion and These Boots are made for Walkin’. There is no doubt that this ever popular play will be ‘cleaning up’ at the box office once again, as it takes the stage at the Whitby Centennial Building!
Leading Ladies
– a comedy by Ken Ludwig Laugh till your sides split, with this hilarious comedy about two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, who find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing “Scenes from Shakespeare” on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they here that an old lady is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, as they find out, that the relatives aren’t nephews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements abound, when Leo falls in love with the old lady’s vivacious niece, Meg, who’s engaged to the local minister. Meg knows that there’s a wide world out there, but it’s not until she meets “Maxine and Stephanie” that she finally gets a taste of it. From the author of “Crazy for You” and “Lend me a Tenor”.
