DEARLY DEPARTED
PERFORMANCES: AUGUST 20, 21, 22 @ 8PM
CAST LIST
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:
Tuesday, June 30 @ 7:00pm: Read Through
Tuesday, July 7 @ 7:00pm: Block pages 1 – 20
Sunday, July 12 @ 7:00pm: Block pages 20 – 40
Tuesday, July 14 @ 7:00pm: Block pages 40 – 62
Thursday, July 16 @ 7:00pm: Work Act I, Scenes 1 - 6
Sunday, July 19 @ 7:00pm: Work Act I, Scenes 7 – 9; Act II, Scenes 1 -2
Tuesday, July 21 @ 7:00pm: Work Act II, Scenes 3 – 8
Sunday, July 26 @ 7:00pm: Work Scenes TBA
Monday: July 27 @ 7:00pm: Run Act I, Scenes 1 – 6
Tuesday: July 28 @ 7:00pm: Run Act I, Scenes Act I, Scenes 7 – 9; Act II, Scenes 1 -2
Wednesday: July 29 @ 7:00pm: Run Act II, Scenes 3 – 8
Sunday, August 2 @7:00: Clean up
Monday, August 3 @ 7:00pm: Run Act I
Tuesday, August 4 @ 7:00pm: Run Act II
Monday, August 10 @ 7:00pm: Run Through
Tuesday, August 11 @ 7:00pm: TBA - Clean Up
Wednesday: August 12 @ 7:00pm: Run Through
Tech Rehearsal: Sunday, August 16
Run Through: Monday, August 17
Run Through: Tuesday, August 18
Dress Rehearsal: Wednesday, August 19
Performances: August 20, 21, 22
SUBJECT TO CHANGE