Depot Theater

Sorry! Wrong Chimney!
2000-11-30 - 2000-12-17
Sorry! Wrong Chimney by Jack Sharkey & Leo W. Sears tells the story of David Tuttle who is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a fur for Christmas. He tells her he’s working late at the office, but she finds out he isn’t at the office. A suspected other woman, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun toting fiancee, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas or anytime entertainment.
PERFORMANCE DATES: November 30 – December 17, 2000
CAST: Samantha – Claudia Pyle, Natalie – Sarah Simpson, David – Chris Pyle, William – Kent Ross, Kris – Andrew Mortimer, Sheila – Kristina Mortimer, Policeman – Pete Bethke
CREW: Director – Connie Penick, Stage Manager – Sherry Polkinghorn, Light Board Operator/Sound Board Operator/Set Design – Ted Warshaw, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Set Design – Jerad Busch
MENU: Cream of potato soup, turkey breast with apricot glaze, peach pecan dressing, winter squash, lemon poppy seed muffin, black forest crepe. Catering provided by Linda Bethke, Andrea Bethke, Linda Owens, Kathy Morgan, Mara Morgan, Kyle Hager, Barb Duesing, Jerad Busch, Suzy Busch, Faye Trent, Milly White, Carla Stukenholtz.

Smoke on the Mountain
2000-09-21 - 2000-10-14
Smoke on the Mountain tells the hilarious and heartwarming story of a Saturday Night Gospel Sing at a country church in North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains in 1938. The show features two dozen rousing bluegrass songs played and sung by the Sanders Family, a traveling group making its return to performing after a five-year hiatus.
PERFORMANCE DATES: September 21 – October 14, 2000
CAST: Rev. Mervin Oglethorpe – Joe Walker, June Sanders – Dee Dee Royle, Burl Sanders – Jim Johnson, Vera Sanders – Denis Ann Bamberger, Stanley Sanders – Kelly Carroll, Dennis Sanders – Kyle Hager, Denise Sanders – Kristina Morgan, Cousin Earl – Alan Stukenholtz
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Light Design – Paul D. Marshall, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Sign Language Coach – Sharon Grice
MENU: Salad, BBQ pork, potato casserole, succotash and black eyed peas, buttermilk biscuits, caramel apple purse. Catering provided by Linda Bethke, Andrea Bethke, Linda Owens, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Pete Bethke, Andrew Mortimer, Barb Duesing, Faye Trent, Milly White, Carla Stukenholtz

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!
2000-04-13 - 2000-05-06
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off! is a Bricusse & Newley musical that tells of the ephemeral nature of worldly success and the efforts by Littlechap, the hero to apply some braking effect to the world which for him is spinning out of control. When Littlechap finds himself a father before his time, he agrees to marry Evie for the certain business advantages it presents. But the business success is far-outweighed by the trap of responsibility for a family. He turns to women of the world for fulfillment but late in life discovers that he has wasted his life looking for something that was there all the time – the true love of his wife. Littlechap sings the show-stopping “What Kind of Fool Am I?”
PERFORMANCE DATES: April 13 – May 6, 2000
CAST: Littlechap – Kyle Hager, Evie/Anya/Ilse/Ginnie – Marci Williams, Susan – Coree Unruh, Jane – Mara Morgan, The Boy – Andrew Mortimer, The Chorus – Jessica Goering, Sherry Polkinghorn, Sarah Simpson
ORCHESTRA/BAND: Piano – Kristima Mortimer
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Andrew Mortimer, Light Design – Ted Warshaw, Costume Design – Dee Miller
MENU: Salad, steak, baked potato, corn, potato roll, lime tart. Catering provided by Linda Bethke, Andrea Bethke, Linda Owens, Darleen Clifton Smith, Linda Connelly, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Pete Bethke, Mary Ann Straight, Barb Duesing, Faye Trent, Milly White, Dee Miller

Cash on Delivery!
2000-02-03 - 2000-02-26
In Cash on Delivery!, author Michael Cooney weaves a particularly tangled web as he introduces a young Englishman who has been playing fast and loose with the Social Security system ever since he lost his job a few years prior. This crafty fellow has invented dozens of imaginary boarders at his home to receive generous tax benefits, all of which go directly into his own bank account. It’s when he attempts to right the situation that the wickets become a bit sticky. Neither his wife nor their upstairs boarder are aware of his chicanery and thus become living props in a developing and intricate plot. Then there’s Uncle George, who has his own scam going on but becomes enmeshed in his nephew’s after several slams against an opening door render him lifeless.
PERFORMANCE DATES: February 3-26, 2000
CAST: Eric Swan – Kent Ross, Linda Swan – Darleen Clifton Smith, Norman McDonald – Kyle Hager, Mr. Jenkins – Pete Bethke, Uncle George – Kelly Carroll, Sally Chessington – Jennifer Bell, Doctor Chapman – Joe Walker, Mr. Forbright – Alan Stukenholtz, Ms. Cowper – Sarah Simpson, Miss Dixon – Coree Unruh
CREW: Director – Christopher Pyle, Stage Manager – Kristina Morgan, Light Design/Sound Design – Andrew Mortimer
MENU: Beef barley soup, beef wellington, parsley potatoes, broccoli and carrots, Parker House roll, red velvet cake. Catering provided by Linda Bethke, Brona Love, Linda Owens, Denise Ann Bamberger, Linda Connelly, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Mary Ann Straight, Sherry Polkinghorn, Barb Duesing, Mara Morgan, Faye Trent, Milly White, Dee Miller

Nuncrackers!
1999-12-02 - 1999-12-19
Those crazy nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken return in Nuncrackers!: The Nunsense Christmas Musical. This production was the first “TV Special” taped by the sisters in their convent basement studio for Cable Access. It starred the nuns from Nunsense plus Father Virgil and some of Mt. Saint Helen’s most talented students. It featured all new songs including: Twelve Days Prior to Christmas, Santa Ain’t Comin’ To Our House, We Three Kings of Orient Are Us, and It’s Better to Give Than To Receive. This show was filled with Nunsense humor, some favorite carols, a “Secret Santa,” and an uproarious take on Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet. Maybe Nunsense really is habit-forming…!?!?
PERFORMANCE DATES: December 2-19, 1999
CAST: Sr. Mary Regina – Connie Penick, Sr. Mary Hubert – Karen Carroll, Sr. Robert Anne – Jana Ross, Sr. Mary Amnesia – Dee Dee Royle, Sr. Mary Leo – Kristina Morgan, Father Birgl – Greg White, John – Ryan Royle, Billy – Alec Ross, Maria – Katelyn Royle, Louise – Megan Copeland
ORCHESTRA/BAND: Kent Ross, Sara McFarland, John Westmacott
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Kristina Mortimer, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Choreography – Michelle Weatherdon, Light Design – Gavin Carroll
MENU: Fruit salad, orange glazed ham, scalloped potatoes, green beans, apple cinnamon muffins, chocolate souffle cake. Catering provided by Linda Bethke, Andrea Bethke, Brona Love, Denis Ann Bamberger, Kathy Morgan, Pete Bethke, Steve Morgan, Mara Morgan, Linda Owens, Darleen Clifton Smith, Andy Mortimer, Milly White, Faye Trent, Jennifer Bell

Middle-Aged White Guys
1999-10-07 - 1999-10-30
Set in one of the nation’s finer landfills, three middle-aged white guys decide to take one last chance to salvage their slice of American culture. But when God gets angry, salvation can be painfully funny. This hilarious satire airs America’s dirty laundry and probes the most sensitive of place – what it means to be a member of the white guy club.
PERFORMANCE DATES: October 7-30, 1999
CAST: R.V. (A Forerunner) – Kristina Morgan, Roy (the Mayor) – Jim Johnson, Clem (The Businessman) – Kelly Carroll, Mona (A Woman in Transition) – Sarah Simpson, Moon (The Mercenary) – Kyle Hager, King (A Messsenger) – Joe Walker, Mrs. Mannering (Mother) – Denis Ann Bamberger
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Sarah Simpson, Assistant Stage Manager – Denis Ann Bamberger, Sound Design – Sara McFarland, Light Design – Ted Warshaw, Costume Design – Dee Miller
MENU: Tossed salad, chicken parmagianna, penne pasta with sauce, Italian vegetables, garlic bread, pudding and spumoni cookies. Catering provided by Linda Bethke, Linda Owens, Pete Bethke, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Sherry Polkinghorn, Barb Duesing, Mara Morgan, Faye Trent, Milly White, Alan Stukenholtz, Darby Musselman

Front Street Follies of '99
1999-07-01 - 1999-07-31
A fun-filled night of food and entertainment. A great home-cooked dinner before the show. Then, entertainment by members of the Company with songs and comedy, and cheers for the hero and boos for the villain as good triumphs over evil in a rousing melodrama.
PERFORMANCE DATES: July 1999
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Pools Paradise
1999-04-08 - 1999-05-01
Pools Paradise by Philip King is set in Reverend Lionel Toop’s vicarage in Merton cum Middlewick. Characters include Penelope, who dabbles in a football pool with the help of their maid, Ida, and Ida’s suitor, Willie Briggs. The farce ensues when the triumvirate wins, or when they think they have won more than 20,000 pounds. Adding more comic elements are the old maid parishioner, Miss Skillon, and Penelope’s out of this world uncle, The Bishop of Lax. Confusion reigns supreme and the plot becomes secondary.
PERFORMANCE DATES: April 8 – May 1, 1999
CAST: Penelope Toop – Darleen Smith, Ida – Kristina Morgan, Rev. Lionel Toop – Kent Ross, Miss Skillon – Sarah Simpson, Willie Briggs – Joey Walker, Rev. Humphrey – Paul D. Marshall, The Bishop of Lax – Greg White
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager/Key Grip/Set Design – Monica Mills, Light Board Operator/Sound Board Operator – Connie Penick, Set Design – Barry Metcalf, Sherry Polkinghorn, Rod Crick, Virginia Crick, Costume Design – Dee Miller
MENU: Cabbage and pepper hash, corned beef, corn, oven baked potatoes, scones, crumble pudding. Catering provided by Brona Love, Linda Bethke, Linda Owens, Deedee Miller, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Denis Ann Bamberger, Sherry Polkinghorn, Faye Trent, Milly White, Karen Koontz, Kelly Carroll.

The Foreigner (Reprise)
1999-02-04 - 1999-02-27
(Original: February 1988). This play by Larry Shue, is set in a resort-style fishing lodge in rural Georgia and revolves around two of its guests, Charlie Baker and Englishman Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur. Charlie is so pathologically shy that he is unable to speak. As way of explanation, Froggy claims his companion is the native of an exotic country who did not understand a word of English. Before long, Charlie finds himself privy to assorted secrets and scandals freely discussed in front of him by the other visitors. These include a spoiled but introspective heiress and Southern belle Catherine Simms and the man to whom she is somewhat reluctantly engaged (and pregnant by) the Reverend David Lee, a seemingly humble preacher with a dark underside. Her younger brother, Ellard,a chubby and somewhat “slow” boy (often thought of as a young Forrest Gump) was a simpleton who tried to teach Charlie how to speak English. Owen Musser, the racist county property inspector, planned to oust property owner Betty Meeks and convert the lodge into a meeting place for the Ku Klux Klan.
PERFORMANCE DATES: February 4-27, 1999
CAST: S/Sgt “Froggy” LeSueur – Jim Johnson, Charlie Baker – Kelly Carroll, Betty Meeks – Joanne Welchel, Rev. David Marshall Lee – Chris Pyle, Catherine Simms – Jennifer Bell, Owen Musser – Pete Bethke, Ellard Simms – Kyle Hager
ORCHESTRA/BAND: Jim Johnson
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Light Board Operator/Sound Board Operator – Paul D. Marshall, Set Design – Barry Metcalf, Sarah Simpson, Jim Johnson, Set Design/Key Grip – Monica Mills
MENU: Soup, chicken, vegetables, rice, breadsticks, cake. Catering provided by Brona Love, Linda Bethke, Linda Owens, Deedee Miller, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Denis Ann Bamberger, Sherry Polkinghorn, Faye Trent, Barb Duesing, Sarah Simpson, Karen Koontz

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!
1998-12-03 - 1998-12-13
The story begins with the Bradleys, a typical family, preparing for their church program. All the preparations go as schedule until the director has an unfortunate accident. Grace Bradley agrees to direct the Christmas pageant and comes face to face with the Herdmans. The whole pageant seems to come apart until the night of performance and the true miracle of Christmas unfolds.
PERFORMANCE DATES: December 3-13, 1998
CAST: Beth Bradley – Rachel Vale, Alice Wedleken -Danielle Hulett, Maxine – Ashley Hulett, Charlie Bradley – Ryan Royle, Bob Bradley – David Cox, Grace Bradley – Christy Lampe, Irma Slocum – Judy Walton, Jane Clark – Molly Black, Vera CLausing – Lisa Walton, Edna McCarthy – Marilyn Black, Helen Armstrong – Deb Holuska, Leroy Herdman – Brandon Fuller, Imogene Herdman – Katelyn Royle, Diane – Morgan Morrison, Elmer Hopkins – Dahlton Vale, Gladys Herdman – Megan COpeland, Ralph Herdman – Blake Elder, Ollie Herdman – Andrew Cox, Claude Herdman – Matt Unruh, Hobie Clark – Tyler Royle, Sunday School Class – Leah Schmidt, Kaylee Holeman, Haley Gilbert, Erin Howard, Lindsey Bird, Erin Kenny, Doris – Mary Cox, Little Angels – Emilyjane Pyle, Alice Pyle, Grace Royle, Sarae Kistler, Firemen – Rod Copeland, Pete Bethke, Alan Stukenholtz, Ric Musselman, Reverend Hopkins – Steve Morgan
CREW: Director – Connie Penick, Stage Manager – Joyce Fuller, Costume Design/Properties Master – Patti Copeland and Janell Walton, Set Design – Sarah Simpson, Sherry Polkinghorn, Monica Mills, Charles Fuller, Rod Copeland, Brent Unruh, Light Board Operator/Sound Board Operator – Chris Pyle, Hair/Make up – Marcia McVay and Dee Dee Royle, Production Advisor – Don Steele
MENU: Tossed salad, butterfly steak, baby vegetables, baked potato, French bread, pecan pie. Catering provided by Brona Love, Linda Bethke, Andrea Bethke, Deedee Miller, Kathy Morgan, Pete Bethke, Sherry Polkinghorn, Faye Trent, Barb Duesing, Kelloy Carroll, Karen Carroll, Karen Koontz

Bosh & Moonshine at the Gaiety Saloon
1998-10-08 - 1998-10-31
Bosh & Moonshine at the Gaiety Saloon was specially written for the Company by Mike Craver. Set in contemporary Dodge City, Bosh and Moonshine at the Gaiety Saloon tells the story of a young woman who has taken out a loan and turned a landmark hotel into a bed-and-breakfast. As she does the last-minute cleaning before the grand opening, the vacuum cleaner explodes, and out the dust step several early Dodge residents including a notorious gun-slinger named ‘Mysterious Dave Mather’, a ‘fancy lady’ named Fannie Mae Garretson, a Shakespearian Tragedian known as Frederick Forsythe Fosdick the Third, and Reverend Mould, a mild mannered undertaker. The past and present meet head-on and the spirits from the past discover that they have unfinished business to attend to. Key to the story is the tale of Dora Hand, who was accidentally shot while sleeping at the mayor’s house in 1878. Two of the characters in the play really did live in Dodge City — Mysterious Dave Mather, a gunslinger, and Fannie Mae Garretson, a saloon singer. Fannie Mae, Craver said, was with Dora Hand the night she was shot.
PERFORMANCE DATES: October 8-31, 1998
CAST: Lynn – Marci Williams, Mysterious Dave Mather – Mark Mahieu, Rev. Mould – Mike Craver, Fannie Mae Garrettson – Karen Carroll, Frederick Forsythe Fosdick III – Jim Johnson, Ollie O’Leary – Kyle Hager, THE BUNKHOUSE BOYS: Crunchy – Kent Ross, Stubby – Alan Stukenholtz, Jaws – Chad Mickey
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager/Sound Board Operator/Set Design – Deanna Johnston, Light Board Operator – Paul D. Marshall, Costume Design – Dee Miller and Anne Curtis, Set Design – Mike Craver, Barry Metcalf, Monica Mills, Mischel Miller, Denis Ann Bamberger, Darleen Clifton Smith, Marla Bethke
MENU: Green and white salad, autmn pork chops, melon ball potatoes, roll, lemon silk cake. Catering provided by Brona Love, Linda Bethke, Darleen CLifton Smith, Deedee Miller, Linda Owens, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Pete Bethke, Denis Ann Bamberger, Sherry Polkinghorn, Faye Trent, Barb Duesing, Kelly Carroll, Paulette Setkins.

Out of Order
1998-04-16 - 1998-05-09
This play tells the story of Conservative Government MP, Richard Willey, who is attempting to have an affair with one of the secretaries of the leader of the Opposition in a top London hotel. However, with a conniving waiter, a suspicious hotel manager, an alert private detective, an angry wife, a furious husband, a bungling secretary, an unconscious nurse and a dead body, nothing is going to go as planned.
PERFORMANCE DATES: April 16 – May 9, 1998
CAST: Richard Willey – Kelly Carroll, The Manager – Greg White, The Waiter – Pete Bethke, The Maid – Kristina Morgan, Jane Worthington – Mandy keezer, A Body – Kent Ross, George Pigden – Joe Walker, Ronnie – Jason Keezer, Pamela – Darleen Clifton Smith, Gladys – Denis Ann Bamberger
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager/Set Design – Monica Mills, Light Board Operator/Sound Board Operator/Set Design- Dustin Shepard, Set Design – Barry Metcalf, Mark Mahieu, Greg White, Lise Sinclair
MENU: Salad, baked steak, beans, baked potato, frozen dessert. Catering provided by Brona Love, Linda Bethke, Deedee Miller, Linda Owens, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Paul Marshall, Lise Sinclair, Amy Reinert, Marilyn Black

Das Barbecü
1998-02-05 - 1998-02-28
Set in various locations throughout present day Texas, Das Barbecü is loosely based on Richard Wagner’s massive four-part 20-hour opera cycle DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN – neatly compressed into a fun little two-hour musical comedy. Opera-lovers and opera-haters alike enjoyed this witty fable of love conquering greed set in the Lone Star State. Hilarious scenes spin around two sets of mismatched lovers who meet on the day of their shotgun double wedding and three generations of outrageous characters from two feuding families. This is one show full of big hair, big hats, and wonderful music—including an infectious ode to guacamole and a tender ditty entitled “Hog Tie Your Man”—making this show a blast for opera buffs and anybody who just loves a good time. Songs run the gamut from Broadway to Texas swing – from jazz to twangy country-western.
PERFORMANCE DATES: February 5-28, 1998
CAST: Narrator/Fricka/Erda/Backup Singer/Kat;sy Snapp/Rivermaiden/Balkyrie – Karen Carroll, Wotan/Gunther/Hagen/Giant – Mark Mahieu, Siegfried/Norn Triplet/Milam Lamar/Alberich/Giant – Kyle Hager, Gutrune/Norn Triplet/Freia/Y-Vonne Duvall/Rivermaiden/Valkyrie – Connie Penick, Brunhilde/Norn Triplet/Rivermaiden -Amy Reinert
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager/Set Design – Marci Williams, Assistant Stage Manager/Set Design – Mandy Keezer, Light Board Operator/Sound Board Operator – Greg White, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Paul Marshall, Barb Buesing, Michelle Christensen, Costume Design/Set Design – Darleen Smith, Hair/Make up – Johnny Martinez, Set Design – Bary Metcalf and Mark Mahieu
MENU: French onion soup, barbecued brisket, corny macaroni, cole slaw, cherry crisp. Catering provided by Brona Love, Linda Bethke, Deedee Miller, Linda Owens, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Denis Ann Bamberger, Paul Marshall, Darleen Smith, Lise Sinclair, Pete Bethke

A Tuna Christmas
1997-11-20 - 1997-12-13
Set the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the “third-smallest” town in the state. The plays are at once an affectionate comment on small-town, Southern life and attitudes but also a withering satire of the same. The plays are notable in that generally, two men play the entire cast of over twenty eccentric characters of both genders and various ages (when the Company did Greater Tuna in 1989 – three actors covered all the parts). The plot of A Tuna Christmas centers on the town’s annual Christmas Yard Display Contest, won 14 times in a row by Vera Carp. A mysterious “Christmas Phantom,” known for vandalizing the yard displays, threatens to throw the contest into turmoil. Among the subplots are Stanley Bumiller’s attempts to end his probation and leave Tuna, Bertha Bumiller’s trying to hold her family together at Christmastime, and Joe Bob Lipsey’s struggle to mount successfully his production of A Christmas Carol despite numerous vexations and obstacles.
PERFORMANCE DATES: November 20 – December 13, 1997
CAST: Thurston Wheelis/Elmer Watkins/Bertha Bumiller/R.R. Snavely/Aunt Pearl Burras/Sheriff GIvens/Ike Thompson/Inita Goodwin/Leonard Childers/Phoebe Burkhalter/Joe Bob Lipsey – Kent Ross and Arles Struvie/Didi Snavely/Petey Fisk/Jody Bumiller/Charlene Bumiller/Stanley Bumiller/Vera Carp/Dixie Deberry/Helen Bedd/Farley Burkhalter/Garland Poteet – Kelly Carroll
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Jennifer Bell, Light Board Operator/Sound Board Operator – Chris Cave, Costume Design – Carolyn Johnson, Hair/Make up – Johnny Martinez, Set Design – Linda Connelly, Sarah Simpson, Barry Metcalf, Darleen Smith, Paul marshall, Lise Sinclair
MENU: Applesauce salad, baked chicken breast with cream sauce, orzo pasta, peas and carrots, orange cranberry muffin, cheesecake. Catering provided by Brona Love, Linda Bethke, Deedee Miller, Linda Owens, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Amy Reinter, Denis Ann Bamberger, Paul Marshall, Darleen Smith, Pete Bethke.

Wait Until Dark
1997-10-02 - 1997-10-25
Wait Until Dark is a play by Frederick Knott. The mystery thriller’s heroine is Susy Hendrix, a blind Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three thugs searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who since has been murdered. The trio tries to convince Susy that her spouse has been implicated in the crime and the only way to protect him is to surrender the doll. More murder and mayhem ensue when she refuses, with the stage lights turned off for the final scene when Suzy levels the playing field by plunging her apartment into total darkness.
PERFORMANCE DATES: October 2-25, 1997
CAST: Mike – Steve Morgan, Carlino – Brian Bailey, Roat – Christopher Pyle, Susy Hendrix – Kristina Morgan, Sam Hendrix – Kyle Hager, Gloria -Megan Copeland, Patrolman One – Dustin Shepard, Patrolman Two – Pete Bethke
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Administrative Assistant – Lise Sinclair, Shop Assistant – Jason Keezer, Set Design – Darleen Smith, Sarah SImpson, Greg White, Barry Metcalf
MENU: Tossed salad, pot roast, mashed potatoes and gr;avy, corn, fresh rolls, fruit miscellanea. Catering provided by Brona Love, Linda Bethke, Deedee Miller, Darleen Smith, Linda Owens, Paul Marshall, Amy Reinert, Mandy Keezer, Kathy Morgan, Kathy Giebler, Denis Ann Bamberger, Joanne Welchel, Lise Sinclair.

Radio Gals
1997-04-17 - 1997-05-10
Radio Gals is a musical by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick, set in the late l920’s, and concerning an enterprising woman, Hazel Hunt, of Cedar Ridge, Arkansas who, upon her retirement as the town music teacher, receives a Western Electric 500 watt radio transmitter and begins broadcasting as radio station “WGAL”. What comes out over the local airwaves is a small town diary, calendar, and stream of consciousness — sort of a Molly Bloom crossed with the Farmers’ Almanac — with generous dollops of singing and playing by Hazel’s “all-girl” orchestra, “the Hazelnuts”, and that lovesick flapper Gladys Fritts. However, due to Hazel’s habit of “channel wandering”, her broadcasts are not always so local. And listeners as far away as Montreal and Manhattan can testify. Enter O. B. Abbott, Federal Radio Inspector, intent on rescuing the airwaves from gypsies like Hazel Hunt. However, Mr. Abbott soon falls prey to the blandishments of the Hazelnuts, and the Shangri-La that is Cedar Ridge. Inspector Abbott, it turns out, also has a fine tenor voice, plays a mean accordion, and in the course of things falls for the flapper.
PERFORMANCE DATES: April 17 – May 10, 1997
CAST: Hazel Hunt – Karen Carroll, Miss Azilee Swindle – Alisa Nickel, Miss Mabel Swindle – Kristina Morgan, Miss Klea Swindle – Becky Matticks, Rennabelle – Dee Dee Royle, America – Penny Cox, Gladys Fritz – Connie Penick, O.B. Abbott – Steve Morgan
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Jason Keezer, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Hair/Make up – Johnny Martinez, Set Design – Dustin Shepard, Darleen Clifton Smith, Claudia Pyle, Kelly Carroll, Barry Metcalf, Sarah Simpson
MENU: Salad, grilled steak in special marinade, green beans and carrots, baked potato, bread, cake. Catering provided by Brona Love, Dee Miller, Linda Owens, Darleen Clifton Smith, Paul Marshall, Denis Ann Bamberger, Dustin Shepard, Kathy Morgan, Linda Bethke, Pete Bethke, Kelly Carroll

The Odd Couple
1997-02-06 - 1997-03-01
The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing but slovenly. Sources vary as to the origins of the play. Most sources claim that Simon was inspired to write the play when he saw his brother Danny Simon and theatrical agent Roy Gerber living together after recent divorces. However, in the Mel Brooks biography It’s Good to Be the King, author James Robert Parish claims that the play came about after Simon observed Brooks, in a separation from his first wife, living with writer Speed Vogel for three months. Vogel later wrote that Brooks had insomnia, “a brushstroke of paranoia,” and “a blood-sugar problem that kept us a scintilla away from insanity.”
PERFORMANCE DATES: February 6 – March 1, 1997
CAST: Speed – Paul D. Marshall, Murray – Mark Mahieu, Roy – David Cox, Vinnie – Pete Bethke, Oscar Madison – Jim Johnson, Felix Ungar – Kent Ross, Gwendolyn Pigeon – Sarah Simpson, Cecily Pigeon – Darleen Clifton Smith
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Jason Keezer, Costume Design – Dee Miller
MENU: Minestrone, baked pork chops, corn, scalloped potatoes, cornbread muffins, cheesecake. Catering provided by Brona Love, Dee Miller, Linda Owens, Denis Ann Bamberger, Alisa Nickel, Deanan Johnston, Kathy Morgan, Liz Riegel, Mischell Miller, Monica Mills

A Homestead Christmas
1996-12-12 - 1996-12-15
A musical review by the Company for Christmas.
PERFORMANCE DATES: December 12-15, 1996
CAST: Pete Bethke, Jennifer Fuller, Stephanie Groth, Kyle Hager, Deb Holuska, Alison Mahieu, Brittany Mahieu, Mark Mahieu, Barry Metcalf, Dee Miller, Kristina Morgan, Mara Morgan, Alisa Nickel, Jesse Peach, Connie Penick, Amy Reinert, Chad Reynolds, Liz Riegel, Casey Ross, Kent Ross, Sarah Simspon, Darleen Smith, Jill Smith, Don Steele, Dave Wetmore, LuAnn Wetmore
ORCHESTRA/BAND: Keyboard – Kristina Morgan and Don Steele
MENU: Catering provided by Brona Love, Denis Ann Bamberger, Linda Bethke, Deanna Johnston, Paul D. Marshall, Kathy Morgan, Linda Owens

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
1996-10-10 - 1996-11-02
THE INAGURAL PRODUCTION OF THE NEW HOMESTEAD THEATER!
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown was a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts. Ten of Gesner’s songs were first recorded as an “Original Album Musical” for MGM’s Leo record label, on which Orson Bean played Charlie Brown, Barbara Minkus was Lucy, Clark Gesner was Linus and Bill Hinnant played Snoopy.
PERFORMANCE DATES: October 10 – November 2, 1996
CAST: Linus – Jason Keezer, Charlie Brown – Joe Walker, Patty – Alisa Nickel, Schroeder – Greg White, Snoopy – Kyle Hager, Lucy – Amy Reinert
ORCHESTRA/BAND: Keyboard – Kristina Morgan
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Beeson School for loan of properties – Mr. Brooks, Linn school Valentine construction – Amy Reinert
MENU: Salad, charred chicken royale, carrots, potatoes, bread, pumpkin tart

You Can't Take It With You
1996-06-20 - 1996-06-30
The story revolves around the various characters in the lives of the Vanderhof/Sycamore/Carmichael families and takes place in their family home in New York City. At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before you realize that if they are mad, then the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. Tony, the attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore house on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores find it hard to realize Alice’s view. Tony knows the Sycamores live the right way with love and care for each other, while his own family is the one that’s crazy. In the end, Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores particularly since he happens in during a visit by the ex-Grand Duchess of Russia, Olga Katrina, who is currently earning her living as a waitress.
PERFORMANCE DATES: June 20-30, 1996
CAST: Penelope Sycamore – Connie Penick, Essie – Jennifer White, Rheba – Penny Cox, Paul Sycamore – Greg White, Mr. De Pinna – Pete Bethke, Ed – Paul White, Donald – David Cox, Martin Vanderhof – Jim Johnson, Alice – Amy Reinert, Henderson/Man – Mark Mahieu, Tony Kirby – Joe Walker, Boris Kolenkhov – Paul D. Marshall, Gay Wellington – Deanna Johnston, Mr. Kirby – Christopher Pyle, Mrs. Kirby – Denise Simmons, Men – Eric J. Reid and Barry Metcalf, Olga – Denis Ann Bamberger
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Liz Riegel, Assistant Stage Manager – Angie Frans, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Properties Master – Deanna Johnston and Denis Ann Bamberger, Running Crew – Greg White, Geneva Cecil, Darleen CLifton Smith, Claudia Pyle, Judy Richman, Kyle Hager, Set Design – Dodge City Community College Set Building and Scene Painting Class, Hair/Make up – Johnny Martinez
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Company
1996-07-18 - 1996-07-28
On the night of his 35th birthday, Robert struggles to think of a wish to make as he blows out his birthday candles. The lone bachelor, surrounded by “those good and crazy people” — his married friends — Robert is uncertain whether he should simply be happy with his lot or whether he should wish for his own romantic partner. Over a series of dinner parties, first dates, and thoughtful conversations, Robert attempts to understand the pros and cons of marriage from his diverse and frequently hilarious friends, and begins to make sense of his own persistent bachelorhood.
PERFORMANCE DATES: July 18-28, 1996
CAST: Robert – Kyle Hager, Sarah – Connie Penick, Harry – Jim Johnson, Susan – Denise Simmons, Peter – Bob Sears, Jenny – Jennifer White, David – Paul D. Marshall, Amy – Alisa Nickel, Paul – Steve Morgan, Joanne – Karen Carroll, Larry – Jeremy Sisson, Marta – Amanda Morgan, Kathy – Kerri Sherer, April – Amy Reinert
CREW: Director – Greg White, Stage Manager – Liz Riegel and Angie Frans, Running Crew – Ted Warshaw, Light Board Operator – JD Smith, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Set Design – Greg White, Sarah Simpson, Don Steele, Geneva Cecil, Barry Metcalf, Kyle Hager, Dodge City Community College Set Building and Scene Painting Class
ORCHESTRA/BAND: Keyboard – Kristina Morgan and Don Steele, Vocals – Bonnie Austin and Paul White
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Funny Money
1996-03-28 - 1996-04-27
This play centers around middle-aged Henry Perkins who is going home to Fulham on the underground, looking forward to his birthday dinner, for which he and his wife Jean have invited their old friends, Vic and Betty Johnson. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened so far, but on the tube train he by mistake picks up a wrong suitcase without noticing it. He gets off at Fulham, wants to get out his gloves and scarf and realizes that he is actually carrying someone else’s briefcase. In it, he finds £735,000 in used £50 notes. He goes to a pub and counts the money several times in one of the booths of the gents. “Bent copper” Davenport — in plain clothes — watches the excited man and believes he has come to the pub to solicit men. Unforeseeable events intervene and a whole series of (deliberately) mistaken identities ensues.
PERFORMANCE DATES: March 28 – April 27, 1996
CAST: Jean Perkins – Darleen Clifton Smith, Henry Perkins – Kelly Carroll, Davenport – Kyle J. Hager, Bill – Joe Walker, Betty Johnson – Sarah Simpson, Vic Johnson – Kent Ross, Slater – Pete Bethke, Passer-by – Barry Metcalf
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Claudia Pyle
MENU: Coleslaw, baked steak Barcelona, baked potato, corn, roll, blueberry buckle

The Nerd
1996-01-18 - 1996-02-10
Set in Terre Haute, Indiana in late 1979, The Nerd by Larry Shue presents the story of Willum Cubbert, an unassuming young architect, friends Tansy and Axel and unexpected houseguest Rick. During the course of the play, we learn that Rick had saved Willum’s life in Vietnam. Over the years, Willum and Rick had exchanged occasional letters and greeting cards, though they never met. Willum has promised Rick that he could come to him for help at any time. While Willum is hosting a dinner party for his boss, Rick shows up. His awkward manner and inappropriate behavior throw the occasion into shambles. Rick decides to move in. Eventually at his wit’s end, Willum decides to take a chance on Axel’s plan to get rid of Rick.
PERFORMANCE DATES: January 18 – February 10, 1996
CAST: Willum Cubbert – Rick Matticks, Tansy McGinnis – Deanna Johnston, Axel Hammond – Paul D. Marshall, Warnock Waldgrave – Jim Johnson, Clelia Waldgrave – Denis Ann Bamberger, Thor Waldgrave – Ted Warshaw, Rick Steadman – Chris Pyle
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Monica Mills, Costumes – Linda Connelly
MENU: Northern bean soup, BBQ chicken, baked rice, carrots, corn bread, orchard cake

Lucky Stiff
1995-10-12 - 1995-11-04
A mild-mannered English shoe clerk named Harry Witherspoon gets mixed up with his murdered croupier uncle (Anthony Hendon) from Atlantic City and the lunacy that surrounded him. Harry will inherit $6M on the condition that he take his dead uncle’s corpse on one last vacation to Monte Carlo. If he doesn’t fulfill this requirement, the inheritance reverts to the Universal Dogs Home of Brooklyn – and Harry hates dogs! His uncle’s legally blind girlfriend, Rita, tells her optometrist brother, Vinnie, that she accidentally murdered her lover while not wearing her glasses. She also informs him that the $6M she & Uncle Anthony embezzled from her former gangster boyfriend is now on its way to Monte Carlo. Oh, and one other detail, they blamed the embezzlement on Vinnie so now there’s a hit out on him! A great score and well-lubricated plot takes the audience to the ultimate happy ending.
PERFORMANCE DATES: October 12 – November 4, 1995
CAST: Harry Witherspoon – Kyle Hager, Uncle Tony – Jason Keezer, Dr. Vinnie DiRuzzio – Greg White, Rita La Porta – Mischel Miller, Luigi Gaudi – Kelly Carroll, Annabel Glick – Penny Cox, Landlady, etc. – Valisa Oldham, Boarder, etc. – Jennifer White, Lorry Drive, etc. – Steve Morgan
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager/Running Crew – Connie Penick, Assistant Stage Manager – Liz Riegel, Set Design – Darleen Clifton Smith, Claudia Pyle, Paul D. Marshall, Running Crew – Jim Johnson, Greg White, Jason Keezer, Angie Frans, Lise Sinclair, Robert Sinclair, Carolyn Johnson, Barry Metcalf, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Dog Heads – Linda Connelly, Hair/Make up – Johnny Martinez (House of Beauty)
MENU: Salad, roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans, French bread, jello parisianne. Catering provided by Brona Love, Darleen Smith, Paul Marshall, Dynette Brumit, Barry Metcalf, Linda Owens, Joanne Welchel, Pete Bethke, Lise Sinclair, Claudia Pyle, Linda Bethke, Dee Miller, members of the Company

Songs for Dodge City
1995-04-06
A celebration of the Company’s first twelve seasons of musicals.
PERFORMANCE DATES: April 6 – May 6, 1995
CAST: Karen Carroll, Penny K. Cox, Kyle Hager, Adriane Hall, Amy Reinert, Greg White
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Deana Johnston, Costumes – Deedee Miller, Tech – Keith Reimer, Lights & Sound – Chris Pyle
MENU: Cole slaw, baked Swiss steak, oven rice, carrots, French bread, peach crumble

Run for Your Wife
1995-01-19 - 1995-02-11
This British farce tells the story of London cab driver John Smith, a man with two wives, two lives and a very precise schedule for juggling them both. With one wife at home in Streatham and another at home in Wimbledon, and with occupants of the flat upstairs at the latter location. Trouble brews when Smith is mugged and ends up in hospital, where both of his addresses surface, causing both the Streatham and Wimbledon police to investigate. Having upset his schedule, Smith becomes hopelessly entangled in his attempts with his lazy neighbor upstairs in Wimbledon, to explain himself to his wives and two suspicious police officers.
PERFORMANCE DATES: January 19 – February 11, 1995
CAST: Mary Smith – Darleen Clifton Smith, Barbara Smith – Marilyn Black, John Smith – Kent Ross, Sgt. Troughton – Paul D. Marshall, Stanley Gardner – Kelly Carroll, Reporter/Bobby Franklyn – Kyle Hager, Sgt. Porterhouse – Pete Bethke
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager/Set Design – Monica Mills, Set Design – Barry Metcalf, Kyle Hager, Jim Johnson, Lise Sinclair
MENU: Mrs. Smith’s veggie soup, roast pork tenderloin, scalloped potatoes, green beans, Cyril’s hot rolls, The Queen’s coconut squares. Catering provided by Brona Love, Amy Reinert, Milly White, Dynette Brumit, Barry Metcalf, Linda Owens, Joanne Welchel, cast of Run for Your Wife.

Only Kidding!
1994-10-06 - 1994-10-29
Only Kidding! by Jim Geoghan takes the audience through the business of “show business” where a booking on the “The Buddy King Show” (think Johnny Carson) is the ultimate achievement. The play follows five characters over a three-year period. Jackie Dwayne is a fading comic whose claim to fame is 31 appearances on Ed Sullivan – but he still yearns to be booked on Buddy King. Sadly though, his selection of Polish & mother-in-law jokes are faded at best. In the first scene, Jackie’s agent sends another of his clients (Sheldon) to Jackie’s Catskills home in hopes of rescuing the outdated act. In scene two, Tom & Jerry, a younger, hipper team of improvisational comics seem to come apart after a good evening performance. Jerry, with his bent toward booze & drugs, is the hothead of the pair who jumps at the chance for an appearance on Buddy King when offered the gig by Sal, the mob-connected proprietor of the club. Tom, however, backs away. The destinies of all five characters come together in scene three when they are arrive in the green room of Buddy King’s show three years later.
PERFORMANCE DATES: October 6-29, 1994
CAST: Jackie Dwayne – Jim Johnson, Sheldon Kelinski – Kyle Hager, Tom Kelly – Jared Adams, Jerry Goldstein – Jason keezer, Sal D’Angelo – Joe Walker
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Connie Penick, Light Board Operator/Sound Board Operator – Chris Pyle, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Set Design – Jared Adams, Jason Keezer, Joe Walker, Josh Bemiss, Mike Paget
MENU: Tossed salad, baked chicken breast marinara, pasta primavera alfredo, Italian bread and herb butter, tapioca. Catering provided by Brona Love, Milly White, Lori Reetz, Darleen Smith, Pete Bethke, Monica Mills, Barry metcalf, Linda Owens, Pam Neely, Marilyn Black, Dynette Brummit, Joanne Welchel, Staci Kuhlman, members of the Company.

Assassins
1994-03-31 - 1994-04-23
In this darkly humorous musical revue, Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and John Weidman (book) depict nine misfit men and women who set out to assassinate American Presidents. Though only some were successful, all left their mark on American history. While every nation has its assassins and would-be assassins, only in America, the authors suggest, do disturbed and disturbing individuals act not because they hope to influence national politics, but because they are wrapped up in a malignant sense of entitlement. Feeling betrayed by the failed promise of American democracy and the American Dream, they strike out at the symbol for America: the American President. Assassins spans several musical styles and many decades in a dizzying series of musical and theatrical inventions that culminate in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
PERFORMANCE DATES: March 31 – April 23, 1994
CAST: John Wilkes Booth – Jeff Dary, Charles Guiteau – Greg White, Leon Czolgosz – Kent Ross, Guiseppe Zangara – Ray Mettling, Samuel Byck – Kelly Carroll, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme – Adriane Hall, John Hinckley – Joey Walker, Lee Harvey Oswald – Trent Cott, The Balladeer – Kyle Hager, Bystanders – Linda Jackson, Steve Letro, Barry Metcalf, Darleen Clifton Smith, Claudia Pyle, Casey Ross
ORCHESTRA/BAND: Music Director/Keyboard – Don Steele, Keyboard – Kathy Asher, “Contractor” – Bill Thomas, Flute/Piccolo -Jean Smoot, Reeds – Dan Nemeth and H.D. McCosh, Trumpet – Bill Jenkins, Trombone – Charlie Day, Electric Bass – Dynette Brumit, Percussion – Andy Miller
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Deena Johnston, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Light Board Operator – Connie Penick, Sound Board Operator/Video Operator/Set Design – Keith Reimer, Set Deisgn – Darleen Smith, Claudia Pyle, Trenton Cott, Barry Metcalf, Jim Johnson, Raymond Mettling, Greg White, Andy Speakar, Poppet Construction – Linda Connelly
MENU: Tossed salad, baked marinated brisket, baked potato, corn, fresh roll, brownie pudding cake. Catering provided by Brona Love, Milly White, Lori Reetz, Pete Bethke, Linda Bethke, Jennifer Johnson, Monica Mills, Jared Adams, Jill Smith, Matt Cole

The Crucible
1994-01-27 - 1994-02-19
In the insular, Puritan community of 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, a group of young girls are found dancing in the woods, and immediately fall ill. When no earthly cause can be determined, the citizens of Salem suspect that some more sinister force may be at hand. As long-held grudges turn to violent disputes, humiliating secrets are exposed and disseminated, and the line between truth and pretense becomes increasingly blurry, the citizens’ dogged determination to root out evil becomes more dangerous than the evil itself. When the burden of proof is invisible and the crime too terrible to name, everyone becomes a suspect and no one is safe. The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s remarkable 1953 play, remains as relevant as ever, and carries with it a stern warning: in every community torn by suspicion, the most dangerous threat may be the community itself.
PERFORMANCE DATES: January 27 – February 19, 1994
CAST: Betty Parris – Haley Ross, Reverend Samuel Parris – Steve Ltro, Tituba – Chasni Briggans, Abigail Williams – Adrianne Hall, Susanna Wallcott – Molly Black, Mrs. Ann Putnam – Claudia Pyle, Thomas Putnam – Chris Holt, Mercy Lewis – Robin Magouirk, Mary Warren, – Angela Frans, John Proctor – Kelly Carroll, Rebecca Nurse – Joanne Welchel, Giles Corey – Pete Bethke, Reverend John Hale – Kyle Hager, Elizabeth Proctor – Elizabeth Leigh Dary, Francis Nurse – Mark Mahieu, Ezekiel Cheever – Jared Adams, John Willard – Eric J. Reid, Judge Hathorne – Jeff Dary, Martha Corey – Linda Jackson, Deputy Governor Danforth – Jim Johnson, Sarah Good – Deanan Johnston, Hopkins – Barry Metcalf
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Linda Connelly, Joanne Welchel, Jana Ross, Stage Manager – Connie Penick, Light Board Operator/Set Design – Dynette Brumit, Set Design -Keith Reimer, Kyle Hager, Barry Metcalf, Andy Speakar, Blacksmithing – Pete Bethke
MENU: Vegetable soup, turkey and dressing, parsley potatoes, carrots, apple crisp. Catering provided by Brona Love, Milly White, Lori Reetz, Darleen Smith, Karen Koontz, Matt Cole, Jennifer Johnson, Linda Bethke, Stacy Cross, members of the Company.

Black Comedy
1993-10-14 - 1993-11-06
Black Comedy studies the effect of loss of light would have on a group of people who hold things from each other. Set in London during an electrical blackout and opening with a dinner party on a dark stage, the play is written to be staged in reversed lighting – so when the blackout occurs, the lights actually come up and the characters are seen floundering about appearing to be invisible to each other. Hence the “pun” title – Black Comedy.
PERFORMANCE DATES: October 14 – November 6, 1993
CAST: Brindsley Miller – Kent Ross, Carol Melkett – Chris Keehn, Miss Furnival – Sarah Simpson, Colonel Melkett – Jim Johnson, Harold Gorringe – Chris Pyle, Clea – Mischel Miller, Schuppanzigh – Kyle Hager, Georg Bamberger – Mike Hall
CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager/Sound Design – Keith Reimer, Light Board Operator/Set Design – Elizabeth Marcrum, Metalwork – Jared Adams and Jason Keezer, Special Paintings – Courtney Simpson, Set Design – Jim Johnson, Darleen Smith, Claudia Pyle, Sarah Simpson, Barry Metcalf, Ray Mettling, Andy Speaker
MENU: Pepper hash, corny macaroni, green beans, ham loaf, roll, jello cake. Catering provided by Brona Love, Milly White, Lori Reetz, Darleen Smith, Pete Bethke, Karen Koontz, Barry Metcalf, Matt COle, Dynette Brummit, Joanne Welchel, Staci Kuhlman, members of the Company.
