MCT Performances

2006-2007 Season Shows

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Book by: Lawrence Kasha and David Landay
Lyrics by: Johnny Mercer
Music by: Gene de Paul
New Songs by: Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
Director: Lloyd Woodard

Based on the MGM Film and The Sobbin’ Women by Stephen Vincent Benet, “Goin’ Courting” has never been as much fun as in this rip- roaring stage version of the MGM movie. Millie is a young bride living in the 1850’s Oregon wilderness whose plan to civilize and marry off her six rowdy brothers-in-law to ensure the success of her own marriage backfires when the brothers, in their enthusiasm, kidnap six women from a neighboring town to be their brides.

Harvey

Author: Mary Chase
Director: Pegg Richards

When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Vera, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Vera herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Vera instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood’s delusion has had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors.

The Nunsence Christmas Musical-The Nuncrackers

Author: Dan Goggin
Director: Marsha Vermillion

The Nunsense Christmas Musical, NUNCRACKERS, takes place in real time in the -- basement of Mount Saint Helen’s Convent. It is the first TV Special being taped in the Cable Access TV Studio built by Reverend Mother with part of the prize money won earlier by Sister Mary Paul (aka Amnesia). A live camera with two television monitors is used to create an actual TV Studio feeling for the audience.

The show is the annual Christmas program put on at Mount Saint Helen’s.

As if there isn’t already enough to deal with, word comes that the gifts under the convent Christmas tree have been stolen.

The show includes some traditional carols in the overture and as underscoring, plus some Christmas Carol spoofs including Here We Come a-Waffle-ing and The Holly and the Ivory.

Of course, the show is filled with the traditional “Nunsense-sense of humor” and one-liners that have made the three previous NUNSENSE shows so popular.

Out of Order

Author: Ray Cooney
Director: Pat Travis

Hilarious, funny comedy by the same author of, CAUGHT IN THE NET, RUN FOR YOUR WIFE, and IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY. When Richard Willey, a suave and successful junior minister in the English government plans to conduct some "private and personal" business with Jane Worthington, a secretary for the opposition, in the Westminster Hotel, a dead body is found on the window ledge. Everything goes disastrously wrong and the hysterical antics of hiding the body after calling for help from his nervous friend from work, George Pigden, will keep you laughing. The Olivier award-winner for Best Comedy in 1991.

She was Only Marginally Modest or Have You No Shame!

Author: Vern Hardin
Director: Jimmy Campbell

Filled with puns, punches, and munchable moose muffins, this classic melodrama is wonderfully entertaining. Set in the roomy (by that I mean always vacant) Dead Moose Lodge, this delightful melodrama has a myriad of amusing characters (a must), plot twists (a necessity), and exaggerated scenes (defines melodrama) that your audience will adore.

From the harried heroine, Marginally Modest (it’s the “margin” that bothers me!) to the villainous Brad Apple (one “Brad Apple” spoiled the bunch) to our splendidly honest hero, Seymoure Stoutfellow (brains are not issued to an officer of the law)…the entire cast has a moment to steal the show (give ‘em an inch, they take a mile)!

In short, Ma Belle (everybody gets a charge from Ma Belle: “Do you think overcharge folks?”) fights to save Dead Moose Lodge from repossession and somehow manages to hold off the selfish advances of the lecherous Judge Jury McBribe (Don’t forget the bribe!”). While Granny Fanny is searching for a husband, (At my age, you don’t have time to fiddle-faddle around!) Prunehilda fights to defend her honor, even though no one is threatening it. Willimena Worm falls madly in love with Turkey O”Trot and fills him with moose munchies (“There’s nothing I like more than a stuffed Turkey!”). Then Ruben Z. Patsy, undercover judge posing as an inept bumbler, arrives to sentence the guilty and perform the weddings (“Will this hurt much, Judge?”).

Madam’s Been Murdered, Tea Will Be Late

Author: Pat Cook
Director: Dan Fuller

Have you ever wanted to stay in an old, drafty English manor with a serial murderer and a ghost running loose in the dark? Who hasn’t? Houndstooth Manor simply abounds with atmosphere. “We’re lousy with it.” The butler intones as he casts a suspicious eye over the paying guests. Wondering who is next to be murdered. Will it be the pompous, retired Major who’s always going on about how he stopped some uprising “with just a few well-chosen words and a flame thrower”. Or maybe a honeymooning couple who know more than they’d like you to believe. Or maybe the former school teacher who’s recovering from a nervous condition brought on when some of her students nailed her up in a keg. If hilarious dialogue, outrageous characters and a plot with more than a London road map is your cup of tea, you’ll love this comedy!