Our 16th Annual Melodrama and FUNdraiser!!!!

Way Off Broadway Community Players’ Melodrama is Stop That Villain by Tim Kelly.  It is being directed by Beth Watkin, assisted by Suzanne Redfield.  Opening Night is Friday, July 28, 2017 and runs July 28, 29;  August 4, 5, 2017 at 8pm  with Matinees July 30 and August 6, 2017 at 3pm. Prices are $20 for Adults, $15 for Seniors, Students, Military, First Responders, and $10 for children.

The Story:

The unscrupulous Rip Roquefort makes a bad living cheating at cards.  He lives at the Virginia City Hotel but pays no rent because the landlady, Jenny Flutterpearl, thinks he’s in love with her.  Jenny doesn’t realize that the miserable servant she’s hired to wash and scrub is actually the villain’s wife, Comatose.  Things get even more interesting for Roquefort with the arrival of Auntie Em, her niece Little Jane Dovetonsil and the crafty Judge Lynch.  Seems the villain’s uncle has left him a fortune — “if” he marries Little Jane within twenty-four hours.  Little Jane knows nothing of all this. If she finds out about the will the money goes to “The Judge Lynch Foundation for Near-Sighted Albanians.”  Roquefort arranges an “accident” for Comatose (it backfires) and urges a former partner in crime, Bathsheba Pickles, to sidetrack the local deputy, Merton Manly.  Complications build to a hilarious slow motion finale!

The Cast Includes:                                                    Crew Includes:

Jim Dirkes – Rip Roquefort                                     Beth Watkin – Director

Lisa M. Page – Bathsheba Pickles                        Suzanne Redfield – Assistant Director

Nikki Bora – Jenny Flutterpearl                               Greg Holmes – Stage Manager

Kristi Treitler –  Comatose

Lisa Doughty – Poker Alice

Suzanne Redfield – Auntie Em

Floyd Glenn – Judge Lynch

Nathan Doughty – Merton Manly

Olivia Russell – Little Jane

Kevin Pichardo – Horseback

Matthew Watkin – Hamish McGuffin

Shawn Walsh – Claudette

Russ Jernigan – Mr. Sandy Gherkin

Performances will be at

Way Off Broadway Community Players theater,  
located in building 4 of the 2243 Business Park at 11880 West Old FM 2243 in Leander,
1 mile west of Hwy. 183, just east of Bagdad Road.