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Leading Ladies
Presented by the Backstage Theatre
Date: 7/29/2012 6:30 PM
Cost: $23 adults & $18 youth 18 and younger online ($2 surcharge when purchased via phone or at the Box Office)
For More Information: 970-453-0199

Leading Ladies

by Ken Ludwig

Directed by Missy Moore

Featuring Zachary Andrews, Rachel Bouchard, Michael Bouchard and Edith Weiss

A hilarious comedy about two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, who find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces!

Romantic entanglements abound, especially when Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady's vivacious niece, Meg, who's engaged to the local minister. Meg knows that there's a wide world out there, but it's not until she meets "Maxine and Stephanie" that she finally gets a taste of it. A new comedy by the author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo.

"Slapstick goofiness, scrambled Shakespeare, and good-natured laughs." ~ Montana Repertory Theatre

"So funny, it will make sophisticated and reasonable men and women of the 21st century cackle till their faces hurt." ~ Houston Press

"Consistently funny and increasingly hilarious." ~ Houston Chronicle


Click here for more info and to purchase tickets online.

Performances run June 21 thru July 22, 2012