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Steel MagnoliasAugust 8-10, 2003
Written by Robert Harling The story is set in Truvy's Louisiana beauty parlor where women who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle, the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to her customers, Miss Clairee, Ouiser, and M'Lynn, whose daughter Shelby, is about to wed. Filled with hilarious situations and revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when Shelby risks pregancy and forfeits her life. The realization of their mortality affects all, and gives the play and its characters the special qualities to make them truly touching, funny and good company in both good and bad times.
A comedy written by Joseph Kesselring Arsenic & Old Lace is a farce. The story revolves around Mortimer Brewster, a theatre drama critic who must deal with his crazy family and local police in Brooklyn, New York, as he debates whether to go through with marrying Elaine Harper, the woman he loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine and "just a pinch" of cyanide. Mortimer's brother, Teddy, believes he's Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home. Mortimer also has a criminally murderous brother, Jonathan, who has received plastic surgery from an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein, to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff.
Written by Neil Simon This farce follows the story of four couples who arrive one at a time at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. The party never begins because the host has shot himself in the head (it's only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. His lawyer's cover-up gets progressively more difficult to sustain as the other guests arrive and nobody can remember who has been told what about whom as they speculate what has happened to the anniversary couple. Doors slam and hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more crazed, confused and frustrated with keeping their stories straight. 
A fanciful comedy written by John Patrick Meet Mrs. Ethel Savage, an eccentric and very wealth widow who is intent on giving away as much of the family fortune as she can to those whose dreams are worthy but whose means are meager. Enter her three greedy, self-serving adult stepchildren who place her in "The Cloisters", a psychiatric "rest home" to "bring her to her senses." Here she meets a variety of quirky, slightly off-balanced patients who help her lead the avaricious siblings on a merry chase. Eventually, all of the patients appear more "sane" than those outside the walls of the institution, and the virtues of kindness and affection, in the end, outweigh the worldly motivations of greed and dishonesty. 
A romantic comedy written by Patricia McLaine Sally, a young farm girl from Kansas visits New York City with plans to become an actress or model. To her brother Robbie's surprise, she arrives at his Greenwich Village apartment and announces that she is staying with him and his roommate. Robbie, a newspaper reporter, and his roommate Sam, an artist, are not happy about her arrival because she "mothers" them and adds feminine touches to their apartment. She also plays matchmaker by reuniting them with their former girlfriends. Filled with tense moments, light-hearted laughs and a cast of colorful characters, the merriment never slackens. True love, as it should, triumphs in the end. 
By Charles Morey An affectionate and whimsical look at the magic that holds theater companies together. It depicts the desperate efforts of theater director Gordon Page to produce a season that will appeal to all by rotating "Charley's Aunt", Dracula" and "Hamlet" for a thoroughly ambitious summer season set in an old barn.
"The Comedy About Family Vacations" By Spike Manton and Tim Clue
A Romantic Comedy written by Philip Barry
"The Philadelphia Story"
Directed by Steven Allar
Love, Sex and the I.R.S. has all the elements that audiences expect and enjoy from PACT. The play is filled with twists of fate, sight gags, and hilarious comic lines. Misunderstandings and mistaken identities provide much of the humor for an
"Love, Sex and the IRS"
Director: Emily Pearse
A musical comedy based on the comic
"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
Director: Steven Allar The Ladies of Harmony present a deep, rich involvement in community activities and small town life we all can relate to in today's busy world.
"The Ladies of Harmony"
By Burton Bumgarner Romance author Howard Weems believes he has isolated himself so that he can finish his latest steamy novel. That proves to be emphatically untrue as a series of sincere but often misguided visitors bedevil the concentration of his creative genius.
"Interruptions"
By Ed Vela We follow the Hammacher family as they cross the country to pick up what they believe to be a rich inheritance. Along the way, the family bounces through the usual dynamics of family life in concentrated form, with lots of laughs, some peril, and important recognitions of affection and understanding.
"Urning It"
By Ron Bernas Rich, bored Matthew promises to kill his rich, bored wife Julia so he can become a jet setter like his friend who recently lost his wife. Julia plays along with the inept shenanigans of her husband, but accidental deaths prompt the arrival of clueless detective Plotnik adding to the misdirections and the humor.
"A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody"
By Katherine DiSavino A benefit for the Ronald McDonald House.
"Nana's Naughty Knickers"
A comedy by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore The Buckle brothers, Billy and Tom, are in big trouble: Tom's infallible eye for slow horses has drained away all of Billy's savings and he has borrowed from loan shark Pizza Face Petrillo, who now wants his money back or else! There's plenty of money in grandfather Buckle's will, but these two black sheep are pretty sure they'll never see any of that. What else to do but dress Billy up as a nun and have him pose as their cousin who is to inherit the entire fortune?
"Lie, Cheat and Genuflect"
A comedy by Ron Hill Glen Martin, a 70-something widower in failing health, stubbornly resists his daughter's attempts to get him to sell his home and move in with her and her husband. In his search for a solution to remaining in his home, Glen advertises for a roommate, pulling in several odd and interesting characters. Once the prospective roommates arrive, he quickly loses control of the situation and mayhem erupts. Max, Glen's crony and next-door neighbor, offers his advice and becomes entangled in the melee, taking the situation from bad to worse. That trend is reversed in a final, life-affirming, loving conclusion.
"House for Sale"
● Glen . . . Greg Jackan
"Plaza Suite"July 15-16-17; 22-23-24 2022 Written by Neil Simon By arrangement with Concord Theatricals On behalf of Samuel French, Inc. Directed by Andrew Spencer The Covid-19 pandemic closed the PACT curtain for two years, but in 2022, PACT again enlisted the comic genius of Neil Simon for a production of Plaza Suite, with three acts displaying the bittersweet and hilarious stories of three couples staying in suite 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel. One couple's long marriage is showing some wear and tear; high school sweethearts meet again after 17 years; and another couple deal with their daughter's wedding day. "Plaza Suite" Cast of Characters: ● Bellhop . . . Todd Prosser ● Karen Nash . . . Roxie Wetterau ● Sam Nash . . . Greg Jackan ● Waiter 1 . . . Carl Lundgren ● Waiter 2 . . . Cayley Gosney ● Jean McCormack . . . Emma Tolzmann ● Jesse Kiplinger . . . Greg Jackan ● Muriel Tate . . . Amber Guldan ● Norma Hubley . . . Nancy Halterman ● Roy Hubley . . . Greg Jackan ● Borden Eisler . . . Carl Lundgren ● Mimsey Hubley . . . Cayley Gosney   
"Murder on the Orient Express"July 14-15-16; 21-22-23 2023 Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig By arrangement with Concord Theatricals On behalf of Samuel French, Inc. Directed by Andrew Spencer "Sleuthing" — the drive to observe, to gather clues, and to solve, is central to science, to crime solving, and to much of life, and Agatha Christie's stories of the meticulous, mustachioed Hercule Poirot are the gold standard of detective fiction. Her Murder on the Orient Express, adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig and placed on our stage by Andrew Spencer, was a summer delight for PACT in 2023. 
   
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Arsenic & Old Lace
Rumors
The Curious Savage
Love is Contagious
Laughing Stock
Leaving Iowa
The Philadelphia Story
Love, Sex and the IRS
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
The Ladies of Harmony
Interruptions
Urning It
A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody
Nana's Naughty Knickers
Lie, Cheat and Genuflect
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