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“Dearly
Departed”
A Comedy by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones
Directed by Tom Skinner
Production dates are:
July 18
July 25
August 1
August 8
This
show will be presented as one of Emerald City Players Dessert
Theaters in the Grand Ballroom at the Clarion Hotel (formerly the
Dublin Wyndham Hotel). The shows will begin at 7:00 PM. Various
desserts and beverages will be served.
Our Cast & Crew
Bud
Turpin/Norval ............ Ted Mixer
Raynelle Turpin ................ Lisa Foster
Ray-Bud ............................. Ken Scott
Lucille ............................ Julie Witmer
Junior ....................... Dennis Stapleton
Suzanne ........................... Kaya Pierce
Marguerite ..Kate Charlesworth-Miller
Royce ............................... Alex Foster
Delightful .................... Carolyn Cline
Reverend Hooker .... John Falkenbach
Veda ............................... Laura Miller
Nadine ...................... Kristen Swinton
Clyde ............................. Richard Sorg
Juanita ............................ Hope Wells
Sets ........ Kathy Sturm & Rick Foster
In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin
family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and
always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves
together for their father's funeral, the Turpin's other problems
keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks
himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son,
is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a
wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their
spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by
devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents.
As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his
long-suffering wife, "When I die, don't tell nobody. Just bury
me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you." Amidst the
chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors,
an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together
and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the
funeral.
Advance
tickets
are also available
at:
Buy
Online
Now!
The
Dublin
Arts
Council
Office, 7125 Riverside Drive
The
Dublin Convention and Visitors Bureau, 9 South High Street
Tickets
will
also
be
available
at
the
door,
one
hour
before
each
performance.
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