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2022/2023 Season Plays Art Center Theatre News

Tickets On Sale Now: Don’t Mention My Name

Don't Mention My Name
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Directed By Sharon Harris

In this delightful comedy, a man suffering from temporary amnesia stumbles into a bed and breakfast off-season only to find he was expected for the weekend. The attractive real estate agent calls him by one name and the housekeeper by another. A business executive and his secretary appear with a confirmed reservation and call him by another name. The executive’s wife surprises them all and calls the hero by a different name, and a nightclub singer enters with her hearty boyfriend and recognizes him by yet another name. As the amnesiac and the real estate agent band together to solve the mystery, they discover that people are not who they seem and though each works for a different government agency, they all have the same purpose. The plot grows more and more hilarious until all questions are answered in a surprising twist ending.
Appropriate for all groups.

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Tickets on sale: Art Center Theatre Presents: The Robin Hood Caper

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“The proof of a comedy is in the audience’s laughter and this is packed with it.” – Bennington VT

“Where other playwrights strike for the heart, Carmichael strikes the funny one….horseplay unlimited with generous helpings of satire.” –

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2022/2023 Season Plays Auditions

Auditions: Don’t Mention My Name, Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 3:00 pm and Tue, Feb 7, 2023 6:00pm

Directed by Brady Lay, In this delightful comedy from award-winning playwright Fred Carmichael, a man suffering from temporary amnesia stumbles into a bed and breakfast off-season only to find he was expected for the weekend.

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AUDITIONS: The Robin Hood Caper on DEC. 3 at 2:00 PM and Sunday, DEC. 4 at 6:30 PM

6 Men, 4 Women

Audition Dates: Saturday, Dec 3 at 2 pm.
Sunday, Dec 4 at 6:30 pm

SUMMARY
Carmichael has again proved himself an inventive and amusing playwright. He has taken an old plot rob from the rich and give to the poor but not even Robin Hood would recognize the hilarious modern slant given to it. Four old people meet to report on their good works in the “Charities Anonymous Club” at the home of Flora Langley’s nephew, a small town journalist in danger of losing his newspaper to the grafting Mayor. Flora and her three old friends are actually retired crooks who use their old modus operandi for charitable purposes. Through the plot there is woven an unusual love story, moments of satire, and show stopping situations of hilarity.

Show Dates: February 24, 25, 26, March, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 2023

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Art Center Theatre Presents: Let’s Murder Marsha

Comedy by Monk Ferris

Directed by Pam Schreck

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SUMMARY
A happy housewife named Marsha, hopelessly addicted to reading murder mysteries, overhears her loving husband discussing her upcoming birthday surprise with an interior decorator. To her ears, though, it sounds like they are planning to murder her! With the assistance of her next-door neighbor, she tries to turn the tables on them with a poisoned potion. When her own mother shows up for her birthday a day early, Marsha thinks she is in on the diabolical scheme. When her maid’s date, a policeman, shows up to take the maid out, Marsha thinks he is on to her poisoning attempt. Well, finally, just when you would think all this would be cleared up, Marsha’s intended victims discover what she has supposed, and decide to teach her a lesson by actually pretending to be murderers. This is a terrific show for family audiences who like their comedy broad, fast, and nonstop.

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2019/2020 Season Plays Art Center Theatre

Art Center Theatre Presents: The Odd Couple Feb. 14-March 1

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Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon’s hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the two Constanzuela brothers. But the hilarity remains the same.

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2019/2020 Season Plays Art Center Theatre News

The Game’s Afoot Opening Friday Nov. 1, 7:30 PM Call 352-746-7606 for Tickets

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It is December 1936, and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. It is then up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.

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2019/2020 Season Plays Art Center Theatre News

The Game’s Afoot Opening Friday Nov. 1, 7:30 PM Call 352-746-7606 for Tickets

The Game's Afoot

It is December 1936, and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. It is then up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.

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2018/2019 Season Plays Art Center Theatre Local Art News News

Comedy: No Body Like Jimmy March 15-31 Call the Box Office for Tickets 352-746-7606

No Body Like Jimmy

Eloise Vanlandingham is running for Congress and a small gathering for potential donors is planned by Nigel, her less-than-scrupulous campaign manager, and her husband Ralph. Just before the first guests arrive Harold, Ralph’s college roommate, shows up at the front door with a problem: he’s driving around town with a dead body in his van and he doesn’t know what to do with it. The body arrives in the house just as the first guests arrive. What can they do? They dress the body up like a guest and call him Jimmy.

“No Body Like Jimmy” is a fast-paced farce about politics and about a dead body being the life of the party