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PARKERSBURG “The Miss Firecracker Contest” will be presented by the Actors Guild of Parkersburg at 8 p.m. May 21, 22, 28 and 29, and 2:30 p.m. on May 23 and 30.
Tickets are $15 and are available at the Guild website at www.actors-guild.com.
The comedy is set in 1974 in Brookhaven, Miss., and was written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Beth Henley.
The play is about Carnelle who desperately wants to be named Miss Firecracker at her town’s Fourth of July Carnival. The title is very important to her and this summer’s pageant is her last chance as her age will not allow her to compete again.
Joyce Haines is pictured during a recent Fredonia Shakespeare Club meeting.
Fourteen members of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club attended the 15th virtual meeting of the club’s 2020-21 year.
Before presenting her paper on Nora Ephron, Joyce Haines, accompanied by Judi Lutz Woods, enacted the iconic “Vitameatavegamin” skit, immortalized by Lucille Ball. In this skit, Lucy gets a job in a TV commercial. She rehearses, tasting spoonful after spoonful of “Vitameatavegamin.” Unknown to Lucy (and Joyce Haines), the product contains a massive amount of alcohol. As the comical outcome ensued, club members applauded Haines and Lutz Woods for their rendition.
Actress Bette Davis originated the immortal line: Old age ain t no place for sissies.
It also ain t no place for people without a sense of humor. So say three Naples women who have put its embarrassments, doubts and frustrations onstage in an original comedy, Laugh, Cry, Pee, Repeat!
Their play is a knowing wink to anyone male or female who has suffered the constant mantra to exercise, had a bladder shed its excess without permission or became unhinged over senior dating. Patronizing family members.
The world premiere is at Marco Players this week, and its playwrights aren t worried about getting a seat in the COVID-19 regulated theater. Patty Corsini Caroli is in the play. Her colleague Natalie King is reprising her traditional community theater backstage work. Carole Fenstermacher, the third of the trio, directs.