Season

Footlight Players, Inc.

Northwest Indiana’s Award Winning Community Theatre

HOLLYWOOD ARMS - Comedy

Carrie Hamilton and Carol Burnett

August 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 2010

Set in California in 1941 and 1951, HOLLYWOOD ARMS is the funny and moving story of three generations of women living on welfare in a one-room apartment, one block north of Hollywood Boulevard. The cast of characters include a tough, funny, yet tender pill-popping Christian Scientist grandmother; a beautiful wide-eyed and distant mother who is struggling to be a writer, only to drown her ambitions in a bottle; a loving but absent and alcoholic father; and a young girl whose only escape is up on the roof of their rundown apartment house where she creates her own magical world at the foot of the Hollywood Hills. Finally, it’s a story about shattered hopes and realized dreams. Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. •

THE MURDER ROOM - Mystery/Farce

Jack Sharkey

October 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 2010

This zany mystery has been described as “Agatha Christie meets Monty Python meets Abbott and Costello.” The plot is straight out of a Christie novel - a rich man marries a young woman; the husband disappears; others have motives for murder. One room in the house, the murder room, might hold the key to solving the mystery. Or does it? Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. •

A TUNA CHRISTMAS - Comedy

Ed Howard, Joe Sears and Jaston Williams

Nov 26, 27, 28 & Dec 2, 3, 4, 5, 2010

In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it’s Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey’s production of “A Christmas Carol” is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. A Tuna Christmas is a total delight performed by two quick changing comedians. Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French. •

DIXIE SWIM CLUB - Comedy

Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten

Feb 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 2011

If you enjoyed those crazy Futrelle sisters from Southern Hospitality, you will fall in love wityh these five Southern women (Sheree, Dinah, Lexie, Vernadette, and Jeri) whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, who set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other’s lives. THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years. And when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of “teamwork,” rally ‘round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction. THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB is the story of these five unforgettable women—a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever. Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. •

NUNSENSE - Musical

By Dan Groggin

Apr 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 ,15 ,16 ,17, 2011

Winner of four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Off Broadway Musical in its original New York production. The show is a fund raiser put on by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidently poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Up dated with new jokes, additional lyrics, two new arrangements and a brand new song, this zany musical is sure to please Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. •

FOREVER PLAID - Musical

Book by Stuart Ross; Music by Various ; Lyrics by Various; Musical Continuity Supervision and Arrangements by James Raitt

June 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 2011

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was. Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the “Plaids” are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they’re not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the ‘50s. Presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International. •

Thur., Fri., & Sat. show

times are 8:00 pm.

Sun. Matinee is

2:00 pm.