Our 2021 Season
December 2021.
Dear Playhouse Members, Supporters and Friends,
The holiday season is here, and we have something special planned for you. This weekend, December 4th, and 5th, we will be presenting A Visit from St. Nicholas or The Night Before Christmas. This is our Christmas Reading and the comedy takes place on Christmas Eve, 1822, at the home of Clement Clarke Moore, the author of the infamous poem, written for his nine children, and how they saved the poem for posterity.
Location:
Fort Mill Community Playhouse
220 Main Street
P.O. Box 354
Fort Mill, SC 29716
Phone: (803) 548-8102
e-mail: admin@FortMillPlayhouse.org
Web: www.fortmillplayhouse.org
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I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Music By: Jimmy Roberts
Directed By: Scott Albert
Book and Lyrics By: Joe DiPietro
August 27 – September 19
Evening Performances @ 7:30 pm and Matinees @ 3 pm
*On 18th September Two Performances @ 3 pm and @ 7:30 pm
This show rated “R”
Presented in the form of a series of vignettes that are connected by the central theme of love and relationships, this play is ” Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit”.
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
Written by Robert Fulghum
Directed by Susan L. D. Smith
November 05 – November 21
Evening Performances @ 7:30 pm and On November 20, two Performances at 3 PM and @ 7:30 PM
All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten is a funny insightful and heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. Conceived and Adapted By Ernest Zulia Music and Lyrics by David Caldwell.
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinios.
POSTPONED
Native Gardens
Written by Karen Zacarias Brown
Directed by Polly Adkins
September 3 – September 19
Evening Performances @ 7:30 pm and Matinees @ 3 pm
Generational neighbors clash over boundary lines, fences and long-held beliefs.
Native Gardens is Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French,Inc., a Concord Theatricals Co.
POSTPONED
Ken Ludwig’s THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY
Directed By: Erica Owens
June 4 – June 20
Evening Performances @ 7:30 pm and Matinees @ 3 pm
A tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, this play takes audiences on a hilarious romp which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club.
Exit Laughing
Written by David Stern
Directed by Susan L.D. Smith
January 24 – Feb 09
Fri & Sat 7:30 PM / Sun 3:00 PM
What do you do when, after 30 years together for weekly bridge, one of the “girls” inconveniently dies? You “borrow” the ashes from the funeral home for one last card game, and the wildest, most exciting night of your lives involves a police ride a stripper and a whole new way of looking at all the fun you can have you’re truly living.
Christmas Reading:
Written by: Lowell Swortzell
December 04 – December 05
On Christmas Eve, 1822, Clement Clarke Moore’s house is not as quiet as a mouse-in fact, everyone is stirring. This is a comedy about Moore authoring the famous poem and how his children saved it for posterity.
Audition Notice
Fort Mill Community Playhouse hosting auditions for its upcoming show
A Raucous Farce About
Romance… and Revenge !
‘TIL BETH DO US PART
On Monday, December 6th , 07:00 pm &
Tuesday, December 7th , 07:00 pm
Fort Mill Community Playhouse
220 Main Street Fort Mill, SC 29715
Directed By: Ginger Heath
Synopsis:
In this comic romp about marriage, career-driven Suzannah Hayden needs a lot more help on the home front than she’s getting from her husband, Gibby. Enter Beth Bailey, Suzannah’s newly-hired assistant, a gregarious, highly-motivated daughter of the South. To Suzannah’s delight, Beth explodes into the Hayden household and whips it into an organized, well-run machine. Suzannah gives Beth carte blanche to change anything in the household that “will make it run more efficiently.” And the change Beth makes is convincing Suzannah that Gibby must go! A newly-motivated Gibby sets out to save his marriage aided by Suzannah’s best friend, Margo, a wisecracking divorcee and her ex-husband, Hank, who is in the midst of his own mid-life crisis. Their effort to stop Beth at any cost sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry just as Suzannah’s boss arrives for an all-important business dinner.
ROLES AVAILABLE
ASuzannah Hayden—Female 40 -55 an energetic, well-dressed and over-worked executive.
Gibby Hayden—Male 40 -55 Suzannah’s husband, about her age, good-natured, easygoing.
Margo James—Female 35 -55 about Suzannah’s age, her attractive and acerbic friend.
Beth Bailey—Female 30 -50 Suzannah’s new super assistant, Southern accent required.
Hank Russell—Male 40 -50 Margo’s ex, about Gibby’s age, but in much better shape. Physical comedy
Cecilia Carmichael—Female 50 – up the owner of Carmichael’s Chocolates and Suzannah’s boss from England, British accent required.
For more information visit us at www.fortmillplayhouse.org
Call 803-548-8102 Or E-Mail:admin@FortMillPlayhouse.org
OTC Improv presents
Three’s A Crowd
Saturday, Dec 11th, 2021
8:00pm – 9:31pm
We are beyond happy that we continue to sell out show after show. Since 2010, OTC has sold out on more than 70 different occasions. Who knew there was such a yearning for mediocre improv.
The reincarnation improv show
Some religions believe in reincarnation and that how you conduct yourself in this life will determine your fate in the next life. Some people might become a king or a queen or a renowned scientist or an inventor; it’s all based on your sacrifice and good deeds. With that in mind, I think Glenn, Amanda, and I will probably become pigeons.
In the next life, the three of us plan on continuing to do improv even as birds. Pictured above shows Amanda and me yelling at Glenn for ruining an improv scene.
Tickets: OTCimprov.com/Trees a crowd
$11.00 advance booking – $15.00 at door
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tickets now
Location:
Fort Mill Community Playhouse
220 Main Street
P.O. Box 354
Fort Mill, SC 29716
Phone: (803) 548-8102
e-mail: admin@FortMillPlayhouse.org
Web: www.fortmillplayhouse.org
Audition Notice
Fort Mill Community Playhouse hosting auditions for its upcoming show
EXIT LAUGHING
On Sunday, December 8th , 6:30 pm &
Tuesday, December 10th , 6:30 pm
**(Rehearsals begin December 12 th )
Exit Laughing
Production dates:
January 24, 25, 26, 31, February 1, 2, 7, 8 (2 shows) and 9, 2020
Comedy By : Paul Elliott
Directed By: Susan L.D. Smith
Produced By: Special Arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., of Woodstock, Illinois.
Fort Mill Community Playhouse
220 Main Street Fort Mill, SC 29715
Synopsis:
When the biggest highlight in your life for the past 30 years has been your weekly bridge night with the girls, what do you do when one of your foursome inconveniently dies? You “borrow” the ashes for one last card game and the wildest, most exciting night of your lives and a whole new way of looking at all the fun you can have when you’re truly living.
Three’s A Crowd
Presents
The BACK TO SCHOOL
improv show
Saturday, August 24th 2019, 8 PM – 9:47 PM
The BACK TO SCHOOL
Along with The Canterbury Tales, The Grapes of Wrath, and Wuthering Heights, come three classics written by the greatest authors of our time. Whether your child wants to read about pre-mature aging and playing Santa at thirty-five; how to piss everyone off and never find a mate; or, living with leaking (pictures included), these autobiographical novels are sure-fire page turners for your high school student.
Come see the three authors hit the stage for their annual Back to School show.
Tickets are 8.00 in advance; 10.00 at the door. Click here to purchase your tickets in advance: tacauthors.eventbrite.com
Location
Fort Mill Community Playhouse
220 Main Street
Fort Mill, SC 29715
Tree’s A Crowd
Dec, 14th 8pm – 9:47pm
RECESS
Dec, 21st 8pm – 9:47pm
TAC for the holidays
In 2014 Madison (our daughter) was in the 7th grade and still fully believed in Santa. How could this happen? The kids in school had told her Santa wasn’t real. It seems Madison had equated Jesus and Santa together. To her, you couldn’t see either one of them and that meant complete faith in both. And apparently, Santa may have died for our sins!
So on Christmas night that year, Kelly told her the truth: “Mommy” is Santa.
Madison cried for hours. At times she was almost inconsolable. Around midnight,
she finally calmed down, relaxed, and after we explained everything, she went to bed
with a new understanding of the spirit of Christmas. She was going to be fine.
But at two in the morning Madison came in our room and said in a defeated tone,
“That…that means the Easter Bunny isn’t real”, then she paused for a second, fell
face first on our bed, and said, “Oh god, the tooth fairy is fake too”.
Later that morning she did crack a smile and say, “At least Mermaids are good”.
Fast forward to 2019 and Madison is a well-adjusted teen with no residual effects
from that “scarring” moment in 2014. Although now she hates the
Holidays, scoffs at the mall Santa, and is a devout atheist.
Madison will play her clarinet at both shows in December!! Come a little early
(7:15pm) see the atheist get her groove on!
Location
Fort Mill Community Playhouse
220 Main Street
Fort Mill, SC 29715
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