2023/2024 Season
Kid's Division
A Midsummer Nights Texas Sized Nightmare, Burton Baumgarner
The Armadillo Flats Community Theater has never produced what one would call quality entertainment. Abigail Yokle is trying to direct one of Shakespeare's great comic masterpieces, but the budget is limited and the rental company sent costumes for every production except A Midsummer Night's Dream. Yet Abigail is not about to let the wrong costumes and a lack of talent stand in the way of a bad production. The actors appear as characters from the 1920s, the 1950s, a cat, a lumberjack, a disco dancer, a sailor and a host of characters from other shows. Locals also use the theater to advertise businesses and make political speeches. Other distractions include an audience member who forgets to silence a cell phone and a snake that crawls into the theater through a hole in the wall.
Performances will be in February 2024.
Adult's Division
Acting Can Be Murder, by Eddie McPherson.
Dolores Gordon loves the stage and has always dreamed of stardom. But the only role she ever seems to land is that of the lowly understudy. The only way she is ever going to get the lead role in an upcoming community theatre production, she decides, is to get rid of the lead actress, Guinevere Black. She then hides Guinevere's body in a large wooden trunk.
But Dolores' thrills soon dissolve when she begins to observe strange things going on among the production's suspicious and dysfunctional cast members. They seem to know something she doesn't. Dolores opens the chest in an effort to make certain her victim hasn't disappeared--and that's when her worst nightmare is realized: Guinevere's body is gone. But who took it? Which cast member is on to her horrific crime? And can that be Guinevere herself peering through the French doors of the set when no one but Dolores is looking? It can't be, can it? Find out the answers when you see this murder-mystery that spoofs Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock all in one keep-you-guessing backstage comedy.
Performances are:
- Friday, May 3, 2024, at 7:30 PM
- Saturday, May 4, 2024, at 7:30 PM
- Sunday, May 5, 2024, at 3:00 PM
- Thursday, May 9, 2024, at 7:30 PM
- Friday, May 10, 2024, at 7:30 PM
- Saturday, May 11, 2024, at 7:30 PM
All tickets are $15.00.
The cast includes
- LaBree Hans as Dolores Gordon, terminal understudy willing to do whatever it takes to get a lead role
- Robert Torres as Howard Weaver, sophisticated purveyor of antiques with a slightly shady side
- Barb Gasper as Beverly Gladstone, director of the community theater production of ″Which Butler Did It″
- Tammy Folstad as Janet Duncan, Beverly's uber helpful though somewhat OCD stage manager
- Jennifer Saner as Georgia Styles, high class dame who feels she needs to put everyone in their place
- Jim Green as Lloyd Fischer, the theater's handyman, not as bright as he seems
- Pamela Torres as Guinevere Black, former lead in ″Which Butler Did It″ and Dolores' nemesis
- Susan Dearden as Isabella Watts, inconsolable actress with serious relationship issues
- Laura Jackson as Olivia Anderson, Isabella's best friend with a secret of her own
- Karyn Lorenzetti as Alice Oldacre, an actress with a hearing problem in more ways than one
- Victor Carr as Oscar Fairfax, actor/butler/doctor
- Roxanne Keplinger as Officer Evanna Biddle, a policewoman very concerned about her offstage image in the community
- Roger Steinruck as Geoffrey Chance, into fast cars, adventure and getting his entrance right
The show is directed by Michael Cote.
All performances are at the Dunedin Community Center. It is general seating and you can order tickets by stopping by or calling the Community Center at (727) 812-4530. Tickets are also available the day of the show.