10-29-09

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - The Lycoming College Theatre Department presents Betsy Kelso’s “The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” a comic fable set in Armadillo Acres trailer park in Starke, Fla. The production will be held at 8 p.m. Nov. 13-14 and 19-21, in the College’s Mary L. Welch Theatre. The play is suitable for ages 17 and older due to explicit language and situations. “Dinner and a Show” is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 13, at 6:30 p.m.

This campy, caustic musical fable is ripe with adultery, strippers, murderous ex-boyfriends and the Ice Capades. Complete with a Greek chorus of trailer park divas, Armadillo Acres is Florida’s most exclusive mobile home community. Follow the antics of these characters as they torment each other in soap opera fashion at the trailer park, on trips to a local strip club and a flashback to a Flan Shop in an Oklahoma City mall.

Characters suffer from agoraphobia, false pregnancy and unfaithfulness. Lycoming’s production features experienced student actors and freshman newcomers. Rebecca Schoeneberger is sassy stripper, Pippi, on the run from her ex-boyfriend, Duke, played by Tom Robinson. Betty (Alyssa Allen), Linoleum (Amy Richards), and Pickles (Krista Peterson) sympathize with Pippi’s plight -until she steals somebody’s husband. Jeannie Garstecki, played by Kaitlyn Hobbs, battles agoraphobia as her frustrated husband, Norbert (Chase Mack) goes looking for love in all the wrong places.

Jerry D. Allen, theatre department chair, directs and is the costume designer, and Russ L. Wynn is musical director. The set is designed by Claude Hardy; lighting by Grechen Lynne Wingerter.

David Nehl’s musical numbers range from love ballads to corn pone big production tunes.

Dinner on Friday, Nov. 13, in the Jane Schultz Room, Wertz Student Center, features baked potato soup, meatloaf, macaroni and cheese, glazed carrots and apple pie with ice cream. It will be served at 6:30 p.m., followed by the 8 p.m. performance. All tickets for the “Dinner and a Show” are $17 and must be purchased at the Box Office in advance by calling (570) 321-4048 by Wednesday, Nov. 11.

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