A comedy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "The Teahouse of the August Moon" will take the stage at the Daytona Playhouse.
John Patrick's "The Girls of the Garden Club" will be staged at 8 p.m. Jan. 29-30 and 2 p.m. Jan. 31 at the playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Additional play dates are 8 p.m. Feb.4-6, and 2 p.m. Feb. 7.
Admission is $15 adults, $13 seniors age 55 and older, $10 ages 18 and younger. Information: 386-255-2431.
Patrick's 1953 stage adaptation of Vern J. Sneider's novel "The Teahouse of the August Moon" won both the Pulitzer and the Tony Award for drama. He adapted the play for a movie version in 1956, and for the musical stage in 1970 under the title "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen."
"The Girls of the Garden Club" is the comic tale of Rhoda Greenleaf, who dreams of becoming president of the local garden club. All she has to do to oust the incumbent, Lillybelle, is win the upcoming flower show.
Rhoda seems on her way after her daughter's boyfriend turns Rhoda's prize plant into the world's first talking flower. But Rhoda's path to the garden club presidency is soon hindered by other roadblocks.
The playhouse production stars Cheryl Weber as Rhoda, Pauline Rodick as Lillybelle, Tiffany Johnson as DeDe, Veronica H. Hart as Birdie, Violet Stoll as Marigold and Vince Mirabile as Dillson.
Director is Kathy Thompson
Play revisits music of the 1950s, '60s
A play celebrating American music of the 1950s and '60s, and written by a British native living in DeLand, will debut this weekend.
"Full Circle," written and produced by Paul Hunt, will be staged by the Jukebox Players, a local troupe, at 8 p.m. Jan. 30 and 2:30 p.m. Jan. 31 at Shoestring Theatre, 380 S. Goodwin St., Lake Helen.
Admission is $15 adults, $7 students. For more information, call 386-985-1655.
"The '50s and '60s were a time of momentous change, socially and historically," Hunt said in a press release. "To mark these changes was a rich new blend of American music which inspired the youth of the time to find and express themselves through music. 'Full Circle' is a musical trip down memory lane as seen through the eyes of a young woman entering adulthood and going through her adulthood."
The play includes the songs "At Last," "Teddy Bear," "Donna," "The Loco-Motion," "Baby Love" and many others.
The cast includes narrators Lindsey Elliott and Matt Laslow, lead singers Steven "Doc" April and Sylvia Purser, plus Brandy Greenwood, Jean Seavey and Amber Edward
