Community Melodrama

 A melodrama was added to this year's fun during the Jubilee weekend. The production provided great challenges to the participating talent.

 This year's production, "Way Out West in a Dress (or “Life's a Hurdle When You're Wearing a Girdle”), by Billy St. John and Bill Francoeur, requires several speaking lines, as well as musical numbers, of the cast members. Read below for a snyopsis of the plot, catch a list of cast members, and scroll through a few photos of the show!

"Young actor Clarence Rawlins's falsetto voice isn't the only "false" thing about him after he gets himself and his acting troupe into a little debacle in Lucky Lady, Nevada. Discovering that he has misread his distant aunt's handwritten will, Clarence learns he has not inherited a profitable saloon, as expected, but instead the Lucky Lady Salon, a beauty parlor. Flat broke, Clarence has no choice but to raid the costume trunk and transform himself into a down-on-her-luck British aristocrat, Lady Claire Rawl, now head hair stylist of the small town's only salon. His pal and fellow actor, Roger Gaines, becomes a French stylist, Rogaine. Together with the ladies in the troupe-Heidi Gray, Bobbie Pinz and Nell Clipper-they re-open the beauty salon to great success. But their good luck runs out when, unbeknownst to them, the owner of the saloon next door plots to acquire Clarence's salon as part of a scheme to rob the bank next door to it. Filled with hilarious characters, uproarious musical numbers and puns galore, this western comedy includes piano player Melody Plunkett, preacher's wife Sadie Blessing; ranch owner Rhoda Steed and her cook Russel Grubb. You'll "dye" laughing at this wild western musical full of dynamic dialogue, double identities, criminal plots and a music score as wild as the Old West!"

(excerpt and art from Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.

http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=WAYOUTWEST)

CLARENCE RAWLINS                                   Steve Freach

MELODY PLUNKETT                                    Ami Claussen

COLT REVOLVER, JR.                                   Jay Roberts

JESSICA  JAMES                                               Jill Stimatze

ROGER  GAINES                                               Jarrod Taylor

HEIDE  GRAY                                                  Doris Tompkins

ROBERTA  “BOBBIE” PINZ                            Laura Davis

NELL CLIPPER                                                Emily Messick

BARBARA  SEVILLE                                       Kendra Stanford

CARRIE O’KEY                                               Jackie Koelsch

EILEEN DOVER                                                Missy Davis

PHILLIP GLASS                                               Jason Keolsch

WILL READER                                                Matthew Koster

SMITTY BLACK                                            Nathan Kenworthy

BOB  BURR                                                Zeb Carter/Jayme Ramsey

BILL HOLDER                                                   Kevin Davis

R.I. PEAY                                                          Glenn  Koster

LEVY FINES                                                      Brian Davis   

RHODA  STEED                                                 Lori Messick

RUSSELL  GRUBB                                           Rodney Crissman

SADIE  BLESSING                                               Linda Hinkle

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