Opening This Week: Who's on First, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, October 4 - 20

The Gaslight-Baker Theatre in Lockhart

proudly presents the zany nightmare comedy

 

Who's on First?

written by Joe Sharkey

directed by Lori Z. Cordova

Showtimes are Fridays and Saturdays Oct 4-20 @ 8 pm. Matinees Sun Oct 14 and Sat Oct 20 @ 2 pm

Tickets are $12 adults/ $10 seniors and students

To reserve seats or to get more information, go to http://www.mygbt.org/ or leave a message at 512-376-5653, The GBT is located on 216 S Main Street in Lockhart Tx 78644

The cast includes Candice Carr, Celeste Colburn, Bill Claussen and Stewart McGregor

Take a husband, a wife, a friend and a stranger, add a touch of miscommunication, a Genie's lamp and a party that begins at 8 and at 8 and at 8 and at 8 and... and you have "Who's On First?" - A Nightmare Comedy. Join us for a Zany Madcap Romp Through Time and Space - A Labyrinth of Hilarity - A Wacky Wacky show that will leave you laughing so hard you'll forget where you parked your car.

 


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She Loves Me, Wimberley Players, November 18 - December 11

by Michael Meigs

The Wimberley Players' production of She Loves Me directed by Dawn Youngs delivers a serene and intricately musical vision of a 1930s fairy tale. Preserved as if in one of those snow globes awaiting a gentle shake to send the flakes whirling, a perfume shop in Budapest is a holiday setting where affairs of the heart predominate. The elegant ladies of the city come seeking their creams, perfumes and philtres; the clerks of the shop, good earnest working folk, do their best to please. Love will not be lured by artifice, of course, but it does thrive on mystery.

This gentle musical comedy uses one of the oldest comic plot devices in the book: the anonymous love letter. The audience's fun is doubled as it watches as both participants in this courtship by mail just happen to become employees of the shop and quickly become annoyed rivals.

Ann Pittman is new arrival Amalia Balash who won't take 'no' for an answer, brashly outdoing shop manager Georg Nowack (Jim Lindsay), gaining a job and causing Nowack to lose a wager with the boss. Pittman and Lindsay have paired before, as Juan and Evita Perón in the Georgetown Palace's Evita last February, where each demonstrated stature and dignity along with fine singing voices.

In She Loves Me you can enjoy a different take: they're lively, self-assured and assertive in their in-store rivalry but vulnerable and sentimental in the imaginings of their correspondence, each writing letters to the anonymous 'Dear Friend.'

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Upcoming: The Heiress, Wimberley Players, February 18 -March 13

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THE HEIRESS

by Ruth Ann and August Goetz
Directed by Robert FitzGerald

February 18 – March 13, Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

Wimberly Players Theatre, 450 Old Kyle Rd., Wimberley (click for map)

Tickets are $18 each ($20 each for opening night including a pre-show reception at 7 p.m.) available at www.wimberleyplayers.org. Box Office at 847-0575 is open Wednesdays & Thursdays, 2 - 5 p.m., Fridays 2 - 6 p.m.

The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz is an adaptation of Henry James's novel Washington Square. The play launches the Wimberley Players 2011 season and will run for four consecutive weekends.

This Tony Award winning drama is set in the drawing room of a mansion in an affluent residential square in New York City during the 1850’s. It immerses us in the life of Catherine Sloper, a wealthy, yet commonplace, young woman of a retiring and reserved disposition. Unexpectedly, she meets and is wooed by an attractive young man, Morris Townsend, and ultimately falls desperately in love.

We witness Catherine’s anguish, and feel her pain as she is torn between her wealthy father, Dr. Austin Sloper, who has dominated her life since birth, and the promise of a bright future with a man she dared not dream could be hers. Add to this mix a foolish, meddlesome aunt, with other members of two intertwined families and you have a story of love, selfishness, hope and plot-turning surprises. T he Heiress has humor that lightly taps you on the shoulder and brutal reality that slaps you in the heart.