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The Far Off Broadway Players have announced their 2025 Season with shows at the Historic Plaza Theatre in Glasgow and the Cave Area Conference Center in Cave City.
“It’s a season of comedy and drama” said Paul Glodfelter, FOBP’s Artistic Director. “We are even producing a brand new comedy and our own original production Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.”
The 2025 season kicks off March 7, 8 and 9 at the Plaza Theatre, with the brand new comedy, “The Bunco Squad.”
The play saw its debut performance at Derby Dinner Playhouse in Clarksville, IN back in January of 2024 and was written by Derby Dinner Playhouse’s own, Jim Hesselman.
It will be the first time the show will be produced in the state of Kentucky and only the second production of the hilarious comedy!
“The Bunco Squad” centers around eight women who meet once a month to play bunco. This squad of long-time friends drink, eat, reminisce, gossip, complain about their husbands and occasionally remember to play another round of Bunco.
Unlike the Derby production, FOBP’s production will be set in Glasgow, Kentucky and the places and times will all be localized to our area. It is certainly a slice of life comedy with characters we all can recognize from our own neighborhoods. With a scoop of sass, a dollop of drama, a heap of heart, and loads of laughs, you will leave smiling ear to ear and ready to reconnect with old friends!
The second play of 2025 is “Red, White and Tuna”, June 6, 7 and 8 at the Plaza Theatre.
In this, the third installment in the Tuna trilogy audiences are taken on another satirical ride into the hearts and minds of the polyester-clad citizens of Texas’ third smallest town. Along with Tuna’s perennial favorites, some new Tuna denizens burst into the 4th of July Tuna High School Class Reunion. This sets the stage for a show full of fireworks and fun from the land where the Lion’s Club is too liberal, and Patsy Cline never dies. It’s been several years since we left Bertha and Arles dancing at the end of A Tuna Christmas…Did the romance blossom? Has Didi Snavley received any “cosmic” communications from R.R.’s UFO? Did Stanley make his fortune in the Albuquerque taxidermy business? These and other burning questions will be asked and answered in the sidesplitting spoof of life in rural America.
In August the Far Off Broadway Players travel to the Cave Area Conference Center in Cave City for their Annual Summer Dinner Theatre show.
August 1, 2 and 3 they present the very funny play, “Opal’s Million Dollar Duck”. Opal Kronkie, a middle-aged recluse, lives in a tumbledown mansion at the edge of the municipal dump. The general disarray of her establishment is aggravated by the fact that Opal collects things—anything that can be toted home in her little red wagon.
In this production we meet Desmond and Queenie, the “stars” of the local summer-stock company, as they drop by “Opal’s Antique Junque Shop.” While rooting through Opal’s treasures they spot a nondescript oil painting—a still life of a duck—and recalling an item in the morning newspaper about an old master who has disappeared from the local art museum, suddenly realize that this may be the missing canvas, for which the insurance company is offering a sizable reward. Summoning up all their acting skills, they try to charm Opal into selling the painting for a pittance, but she explains that she plans to give it to her friend, Rosie, as a birthday present, whereupon the plot thickens hilariously.
October sees a return to the Plaza Theatre and FOBP’s production of Washington Irving’s, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. The play takes place October 17, 18 and 19.
Based on the iconic 1820 short story by Washington Irving, playwright John Heimbuch delivers a lively ghost tale that’s deliciously creative. In the quaint village of Sleepy Hollow, stories of wonder and strangeness surround the legend of a mighty headless Hessian. When the humble schoolteacher Ichabod Crane vies for the hand of the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel, the townsfolk might protest but it is ultimately the Horseman who will decide his fate. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is surprisingly close to Washington Irving’s 200-year-old tale while adding fresh comic and fantastical elements.
Finally, December 12, 13 and 14, Dickens “A Christmas Carol” is brought to life in an original Far Off Broadway Players production.
Never has a story so dominated the Christmas Season! A Christmas Carol, published in 1834, is the famous tale of a miserly old man named Ebenezer Scrooge. In this original Far Off Broadway Players production traditional, sometimes haunting carols are woven into Scrooge’s story. Over the course of the action, he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, who give him a new perspective on his life. Ultimately, these encounters teach him the importance of generosity, kindness, and the Christmas spirit.
Don’t miss this original, Far Off Broadway Players production!
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