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Blowing Rock, NC 28605 Phone 828-919-6196
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Please read about the plays then make your selection for our Spring production.
The Fourth Wall by A.R. Gurney
THE STORY: Peggy has redecorated the living room and her husband, Roger, can't stand it. Peggy's usual exquisite taste was overcome by a mysterious lapse which caused her to redo the room as if it were a stage set. Everything faces one wall, the "fourth wall," which she's left bare and which is really the audience. Unable to cope any further, and needing someone to talk to, Roger asks their old, dear friend, Julia, to fly up from New York. Julia agrees that something strange is going on, especially since everyone who enters the room begins to behave as if they were acting in a play, or even a musical when occasionally someone feels the urge to sing a Cole Porter song. Julia, affected by the room, suggests Roger call "976-NUTS" and have Peggy put away, which would allow the two of them to have the affair they've never before thought about. Roger can't do that and explains that he's got one hope left: Floyd, a local theatre professor. Roger asks Floyd to come over in hopes that he can "Doctor" Peggy's play and bring it to a close, thus allowing him and Peggy to resume their happily married life. But that doesn't work either as Floyd sees what's going on and is in complete agreement with Peggy. Peggy, following in St. Joan's footsteps at Floyd's urging, decides she must do what she must do and sets out to break the fourth wall in order to connect with her feelings. Roger rushes after her, leaving Julia and Floyd with a final Cole Porter tune.
Any Wednesday by Muriel Resnik
THE STORY: The president of a large corporation is using the executive suite to house his young mistress, whom he sees once a week. A young man who has sold his factory to the middle-aged romancer is chagrined to find it about to be closed for tax advantages. Directed to the suite by a new secretary, he comes upon the girl, then the wife and finally the president. But the plot takes nice little turns. When the young man meets the mistress she tells him that he was misdirected, that his is not the executive suite but 'a special arrangement—like a scholarship.' Eyeing the diamond necklace she received for a birthday gift, he remarks, 'You must have made dean's list.' When the wife finds them she assumes they are a nice young married couple and between the playful pretense of the two and the older woman's romantic concern for them, Miss Resnik builds a delightful scene…With the completion of the mixed-up quartet by the husband's return, the fun bubbles happily along right through the…two acts—it is a happy comedy with the giddy bubble of champagne.
A smash-hit Broadway success, this delightful comedy deals with four very engaging and believable people: a millionaire businessman; his disarmingly innocent mistress; his hoodwinked wife; and an irate victim of his sharp practice; whose paths cross each other under the most unexpected and hilarious circumstances. "ANY WEDNESDAY has a delightfully fresh charm, a bright and engaging humor, a gay spirit, and a sympathetic heart." —NY Post. "…its charm doesn't falter, its comedy is deliciously satisfying, and it keeps the audience happily involved all the way
