Drama Club
2011-12 Spring Drama
“Play On! ”
by Rick Abbot
Perfect for any theatre group, this is the hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance in which anything that can go wrong does. When the authoress decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax to a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter.
2010-11 Spring Drama
“A Turn for the Nurse ”
by Rick Abbot
Lovelorn millionaire Oliver Stratton can't recall the name and address of the only woman he'll ever love and decides to go to Tibet leaving his fortune to nurse Peggy. This causes the entire household (no-good nephew Derek, his lover Sylvia, Oliver's noble son George, Oliver's lady lawyer and even the butler and maid) to devise complex ways to get the will changed in their favor or get into the safe containing the estate's liquidated assets in cold cash. When the Tibetan lamasery recruiter comes to claim Oliver, Derek plots to convince Oliver that Peggy is addicted to drink and unworthy to inherit. He brings in anti-drink crusader Cora Van Beck to rehabilitate stone-sober Peggy. Plot partnerships, betrayals, zany ploys plus all sorts of devices are used in this screamingly funny show in which the secret killer prepares to bump Oliver off when the will gets rewritten the right way. A hilarious, audience-pleasing hit.
2009-10 Spring Drama
“Southern Hospitality”
by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope & Jamie Wooten
The Futrelle Sisters—Frankie, Twink, Honey Raye, and Rhonda Lynn—are in trouble again! This time, the problem is bigger than ever: Their beloved hometown, Fayro, Texas, is in danger of 
disappearing, and it’s up to the sisters to save it from extinction. Ever since the Super SmartMart and the rendering plant closed, folks have been leaving Fayro in droves, but it seems a salsa manufacturing factory is looking to relocate, and a company representative is headed to Fayro on a scouting mission. In an effort to show overwhelming southern hospitality, Honey Raye makes promises that are not to be believed in order to woo the rep to choose Fayro. As one disaster follows another, it looks as if all hope is lost. But how the Futrelle sisters and the other citizens of Fayro pull together and save their town is a testament to Southern strength and ingenuity—and a recipe for total hilarity.