Millbrook Community Players, Inc.
P.O. Box 511
Millbrook, AL 36054
(334) 782-7317
The Butler Did It!
A Comedy by Tim Kelly
Directed by Chris Perry
*This spoof of English mysteries with a decidedly American flavor finds Miss Maple, a society dowager noted for her imaginative week end parties, awaiting a group of detective writers invited to eerie Ravenswood Manor where they are to assume the personalities of their fictional characters. She's arranged all sorts of scary, amusing incidents. Then a real murder takes place and the guests realize they're all marked for death. When they're not busy tripping over the clues, the zany sleuths trip over one another.
*Synopsis from Samuel French
April 2009
M*A*S*H
A Comedy Adapted by Tim Kelly.
From the book by Richard Hooker.
Directed by Stephanie McGuire
M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and joining it are two
unpredictable madcaps, Hawkeye and Duke. They can't be dealt with casually,
however, because they are also two of the best chest surgeons in South Korea.
They decide to wage a campaign to get a young Korean to the United States and
entered in a good school. The thread of this effort helps tie together the
pileup of comic adventures that pyramid right before the eyes of your astonished
and hysterical audience! Hawkeye has a scene with a woman psychiatrist who
believes he's been trying to lobster-trap mermaids in a rice paddy! There's a
jolly encounter with the baby-talking Bonwit sisters, the worst tap-dancing act
the U.S.O. ever sent overseas. A sergeant is selling dumb GIs fishing rights in
the Bay of Phum. Radar O'Reilly, a soldier with incredible hearing, anticipates
things before they happen. The proprietor of a painless dental clinic is cured
of dark moods by the recreation of an old monster movie—and a monster! It's all
here, including a little romance mixed in with dramatic moments and a genuine
love of life.
Book by Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on the play "Green Grow the Lilacs" by Lynn Riggs
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Richard Rodgers
Directed by A. John Collier
*Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA!
*Synopsis from Rogers and Hammerstein Musicals.
September 2009
By Ted Swindley
Directed by Fred Neighbors
*Scarlett and Rhett go "Wilde" in this witty adaptation of the comic masterpiece transplanted to the Old South. The result is the sparkling and stylish brilliance of Oscar Wilde coupled with the hoop-skirted wonder of moonlight and magnolias. Absolutely hilarious!
*Synopsis From www.tedswindleyproductions.com
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