DEARLY DEPARTED

PERFORMANCES: AUGUST 20, 21, 22 @ 8PM

CAST LIST

Bud Turpin
Alex Ray
Raynelle
Jan Byrnes
Ray Bud
Rick Kinkaid
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

BUD TURPIN - Alex Ray
RAYNELLE - Jan Byrnes
RAYBUD - Rick Kincaid
LUCILLE - Jennifer Hughes
JUNIOR - Randy Palmer
SUZANNE - Katie Armstrong
MARGUERITE - Barbara Webb
ROYCE - Matt Demko
DELIGHTFUL -
REVEREND HOOKER - David Bownes
VEDA - Lisa Lovett
NADINE - Katie Burnette
NOVAL - Alex Ray
CLYDINE - Carol Dopp
JUANITA - Estee Daniels-Cambell
THE JOY OF LIFE SINGERS - Suzanne Bannister, Annie Doyle, Sally Kriebel, Susan Laverack

REBEL - Tristan Laverack

THE STORY

In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father's funeral, the Turpin's other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents. As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, "When I die, don't tell nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you." Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.

"DEARLY DEPARTED" REHEARSAL SCHEDULE

SUBJECT TO CHANGE

DAY DATE TIME REHEARSAL
Tuesday
June 30
7:00 PM
Read Through
Tuesday
July 7
7:00 PM
Block Pages 1–20
Sunday
July 12
7:00 PM
Block Pages 20-40
Tuesday
July 14
7:00 PM
Block Pages 40–62
Thursday
July 16
7:00 PM
Work Act I, Scenes 1–6
Sunday
July 19
7:00 PM
Work Act I, Scenes 7–9; Act II, Scenes 1–2
Tuesday
July 21
7:00 PM
Work Act II, Scenes 3–8
Sunday
July 26
7:00 PM
Work Scenes TBA
Monday
July 27
7:00 PM
Run Act I, Schenes 7–9; Act II, Scenes 1–2
Wednesday
July 29
7:00 PM
Run Act II, Scenes 3–8
Sunday
August 2
7:00 PM
Clean Up
Monday
August 3
7:00 PM
Run Act I
Tuesday
August 4
7:00 PM
Run Act II
Monday
August 10
7:00 PM
Run Through
Tuesday
August 11
7:00 PM
TBA—Clean Up
Wednesday
August 12
7:00 PM
Run Through
Sunday
August 16
TECH REHEARSAL
Monday
August 17
RUN THROUGH
Tuesday
August 18
RUN THROUGH
Wednesday
August 19
DRESS REHEARSAL
Thursday
August 20
8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Friday
August 21
8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Saturday
August 22
8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE