The 2008 Red Barn Theatre Summer Season

Note: New Start Time - Performances begin at 7:30                              No Performances on Sundays           

Radio Gals                                   May 28 - June 7                                           

Musical Comedy.... Music, lyrics and book by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick                                    Scott Jensen, Director

This lively, cheery nostalgia-dipped musical takes place in Arkansas during the late twenties when radio ruled the airwaves and was basically non-regulated.  Hazel and her Hazelnuts produced their own show which set hearts thumping and toes tapping with a rib-tickling array of novelty songs, homey chat, and an occasional plug for a rejuvenating tonic. Radio Gals has it all:  non-stop music, country humor, conflict, and romance.  Wacky and Entertaining!  

Escanaba in Love                     June 18 - 28                            

Zany Comedy....written by Jeff Daniels                                                                                                                   Terry L. Wiesner, Director

Visit the Soady deer camp in the midst of World War II (40 years prior to Escanaba in da Moonlight).  Meet the love of young Albert Soady Jr.’s life and a whole cast of madcap Yoopers.  Albert wins Big Betty Balloo in a barroom kissing contest, weds her on the spot, and brings her to deer camp for their honeymoon—the first woman ever to set foot in the Soady deer camp!  Are her britches large enough to square off with the entire clan of Soadys? 

 

Over the River and Through the Woods                July 9 - 19                    

Hilarious Comedy....written by Joe DiPietro                                                                                                       Kathy Fladten, Director

Nick, a single Italian-American guy, sees both sets of beloved, but annoying, grandparents every Sunday for dinner.  When he tells them he’s been offered his dream job as a marketing executive, but it will require him to move away, the grandparents do not take the news well and go into action to get him to stay around.  “Hilarious family comedy”   “Loaded with laughs every step of the way”

 

Oliver                                        July 30 - August 9                                                         

Musical / Classic Tale....Music, lyrics and book by Lionel Bart                Kathy Fladten, Director  John Dutmer, Musical Director

This beloved classic features the courageous orphan Oliver who dares to plead for more food at the workhouse, which enrages Mr. Bumble who then sells the boy to an undertaker. Oliver runs away from the coffins and meets Artful Dodger who hooks him up with a group of street kids trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. Trouble abounds for them.  Delightful music: Food, Glorious Food; Where is Love?; Consider Yourself; I’d Do Anything; and more.

 

Tom, Dick and Harry                August 20 - 30                 

Riotous Comedy....written by Ray Cooney                                                                                 Terry Wiesner, Director

In this uproarious story of three brothers, Tom and his wife are about to adopt a baby.  They are anxious to make a good impression on the formidable adoption agency woman who is arriving to check them out.  Unfortunately, Tom’s two brothers (one a loveable rogue, one a genius—but thick) hopelessly complicate things with illegal aliens, smuggled goods, and a cadaver.