MCT Performances

2005-2006 Season Shows

The Sound of Music

When a postulate proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval Captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit, gradually captures the heart of the stern Captain, and they marry.

Upon returning from their honeymoon, they discover Austria has been invaded by the Nazis, who demand the Captain's immediate service in their navy. The family's narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in theatre.

Songs in this show include: The Sound of Music, A Few of My Favorite Things, Do-Re-Mi, Climb Ev'ry Mountain, Edelweiss, I Must Have Done Something Good, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, So Long Farewell

Directed by John Butcher.

Cast Includes:

Amber Rees as Maria
Tim Tedder as Captain von Trapp
Kendra Cline as Mother Abbess
Jimmy Campbell as Max
Marsha Vermillion as the Baroness
Children: Regan Reese (Liesl), K.C. Loer (Friedrich). Rachel Marley (Louisa), Valena Caviggiola (Brigitta), Riley Reese (Kurt), Olivia Ott (Marta), Destiny Shanks (Gretl)

Sponsored by The TLC Management Family: Angels of Mercy Home Health Care, Colonial Oaks Retirement Community, New Hope Hospice, Rolling Meadows Health Care Center, Wesleyan Health Care Center

The Foreigner

The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time Froggy has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversations with strangers. So Froggy, before departing, tells all the assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreigh country and speaks no English.

Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should -- the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiancee is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand a word being said. The nonstop hilarity of the play sets up a wildly funny climax.

Directed by George Dicken.

Sponsored by FOLKIES and DON'S TAP.

A Christmas Story

Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest of the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphi Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphi pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself. The consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out."

All the element from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace, Scut Farkus, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orpah Annie decoder pin; Ralphie's father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking; Ralphie's fantasy scenarios and more.

Director: Pegg Richards

Show Times:
Fridays at 7:30 PM.
Saturdays at 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM.
Sundays at 2:00 PM.

Sponsored by Marion General Hospital.

Caught In the Net

The sequel to Run for Your Wife finds the bigamist taxi driver John Smith still keeping his two families in different parts of London, both happy and blissfully unaware of each other. However, his teenage children, a girl from one family and a boy from the other, have met on the Internet and are anxious to meet in person since they seem to have so much in common -- name, surname and a taxi-driving dad! Keeping them apart plunges John into a mess of his own making.

His lodger Stanley could be savior, but he is about to go on holiday with his decrepit old father (who turns up thinking he is already at the guest house). The situation spirals out of control as John juggles outrageously with the truth.

Directed by Pat Travis. Produced by Kelly Richards.

Cast: Jon Blake, David Wolcott, Theresa Leffler, Debbie Sandoval, Dave Losure, Liz Aguilar, Luke Lines

The Radio Show (off season production)

Crying Baby Productions and Marion Civic Theatre present this off season production of The Radio Show, a radio drama that Frank Sinatra performed.
Featuring music from the 1940's and comic sketches.

Cast: Brett Hall, Linda Rodden & Vicki Fuller-Kibellus.

Clue: The Musical

The popular board game is now a rousing, fun-filled musical that brings the world's best-known murder suspects to life and invites the audience to play along to solve the mystery of who killed Mr. Boddy, in what room and with what weapon. There are 216 possible crime solutions and the audience interacts with the play to determine the final outcome!

The Greatest Power (off season production)

The Greatest Power depicts the modern day version of Christ's last days on earth. The "powers" that be are making the decision in a corporate board room to kill Jesus, much the same way as it was thousands of years ago, only in a modern day setting. You will decide who "THE GREATEST POWER" is.

Directed by Pat Travis.

The Dining Room

A story is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes -- some funny, some touching, some rueful -- which crate an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.

The actors change roles, personalities and ages as they portray a wide variety of characters from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from giggling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces new people and events: a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy returns from boarding school to discover his mother's infidelity; a senile grandmother doesn't recognize her own sons at Christmas dinner; a daughter, her marriage in shambles, pleads futilely to return home; and more.

The various scenes, changing swiftly and smoothly, come together in a theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and abundant humanity.