are you agonizing over the perfect gift to get your mother/wife/woman with children for her SPECIAL DAY, this sunday, may 8th? get her TICKET TO OUR PLAY! “Morning’s at Seven,” a Theatre Centre performance, held at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 S. 6th Street. It opens next Friday, May 13th, and runs for two weekends – at 8:00 on friday and saturday nights, and at 2:00 on Sunday the 15th and the 20th. for tickets, call 523-2787, or you can pick them up at the Hoogland.
It’s set in the 20’s – a little slice of life of four older sisters, their husbands and their nephew – it’s a timeless, funny, moving, FUNNY play, and i promise you won’t be disappointed! what WILL be disappointing is if we’ve put all this work into this great show, and nobody shows up! what if it’s just our families? that would kinda suck; i mean, i’m sure they’d be a great audience, but last night rich mccoy said he thought we’d only get LESS THAN 100 PEOPLE A SHOW! which is ABSURD, if you want to know my opinion.
it’s directed by pam brown, aka MRS. LINCOLN, who will probably not be at the performances in her mary todd attire, but if she were to do that, well, i’m sure she’d get a lot of attention.
i am playing a 65 year-old, which i was first a little shocked about, but now i’m having a lot of fun doing it. did i mention how funny and charming it is? Besides rich mccoy, the other actors are felicia and mike coulter – felicia is HYSTERICALLY FUNNY whenever she opens her mouth; whatever comes out of it just makes me laugh. she and mike together are really, really good. their son, Homer, is played by kevan kavanaugh, who is also very funny, but in real life he’s the president of midwest family broadcasting, which involves at least two if not three radio stations. because i only know him as homer, the arrested-development 40 year-old in the play, it seems incomprehensible that this man could be the PRESIDENT of all this radio, but that just goes to show what a good actor he is. his finacee is shirene thomas, who plays his lovely, long-suffering fiancee.
susan jeffers, who i’ve mentioned was a COPY EDITOR FOR THREE HARRY POTTER BOOKS, plays one of my sisters, and the other sister is pat pennington, who is the anchor of all the sisters, the calm one in the family. Regan Smith is her scholarly and very condescending husband.
your wife/mother/whomever would LOVE IT. and for that matter, ANY WOMAN should get a gift on mother’s day – those of us who don’t actually have any children should get some kind of gift – well, we should get a gift for not contributing to the overpopulation in the world, for one thing. also i think everybody deserves a gift whenever possible, because gifts are nice and they make people happy, and if you’re not going to be happy, what’s the point of it all anyway?
plus i am an excellent caregiver to mollie and winnie, although i do have to say pets are a LITTLE easier than children – you can’t just leave a child at home after locking up the cabinets so they don’t dig around and eat whatever random things they can find.
plus one more thing about the show – keep telling randy, GET EVERYBODY YOU KNOW TO COME SEE IT! because he talks to a lot more people than i do. i quizzed him about different people coming, and he said that one friend of his, a guy who has starred in and directed plenty of things, DOESN’T GO SEE PLAYS.
WHAT???!!! so, he’s all great with the musicals, but he won’t see a PLAY??? what’s up with that? where’s the support of community theater, guy? COME ON NOW!
that is all my lecturing for now, except – WISH DAD HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY! we aren’t celebrating tonight cause i have rehearsal, but on saturday night we’re gonna WHOOP IT UP.
ok then,
mrs. tuesday morning hughes.