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    • Bill Bowen 1952-2024
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    • Bruce Hainsworth 1923 - 2020
    • Rich Morton 1948 - 2019
    • Gene Guidi 1937 - 2019
    • Parker Chick 1932 - 2018
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    • Rita Rosano 1931 - 2016
    • Ceil Koziol 1922 - 2012
    • Joseph P. Scholz 1926 - 2008
    • Tom Svingen 1935 - 2006
    • Ed Kanter 1931 - 2004
    • Harry Harding 1904 - 2002
    • Sam Greiff 1921 - 2002
    • Sue Bennett Fielding 1928 - 2001
    • Eleanor "Soosie" Harding 1906 - 1999
    • Angelo "Beebe" DeFlaminis 1916 - 1998
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Our 2017-2018 Season

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The Savannah Sipping Society
​by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten
Directed by Wendy Stuart

October 20, 21, 27, 28, November 3, 4 at 8:00 PM
October 29, November 5 at 2:00 PM

Starring Cindy Bell, Evie Rayberg, Barbara Schapiro, and Cynthia Wegel

In this delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy, four unique Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate—and an impromptu happy hour—and decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years. Randa, a perfectionist and workaholic, is struggling to cope with a surprise career derailment. Dot, still reeling from her husband’s recent demise 
and the loss of their plans for an idyllic retirement, faces the unsettling prospect of starting a new life from scratch. Earthy and boisterous Marlafaye, a good ol’ Texas gal, has blasted into Savannah in the wake of losing her tom-cattin’ husband to a twenty-three-year-old dental hygienist. Finally, Jinx, a spunky ball of fire, offers her services as a much-needed life coach for these women.
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Radium Girls
by D.W. Gregory
Directed by Marianne Phinney

February 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 at 8:00 pm
February 11 & 18 at 2:00 pm

Starring Mark Adams, Paul Campbell, Ninette Cummings, Woody Farrick, Ashley Harmon, George Motley, Joe Rich, Cynthia Small, Finley Smith, and Shelley Wood
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In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, 
Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Written with warmth and humor and called a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science.
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Lucky Stiff
Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty

Directed by Dan Delaporta
Musical Direction by Dan Moore
Choreography by Lisa Kelleher

May 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19 at 8:00 pm
May 6, 20 at 2:00 pm

Starring Francis Sheehan, Ben Medeiros, Emily Murray, Elaine Sheffield Bono, Gary Ciambrone, Robert Grady, Caroline Phinney, Michael Allison, George Motley, and Juliana Small
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A winner of the Richard Rodgers Award and the Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical.

Based on the novel The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff is an offbeat, hilarious murder mystery farce, complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds and a corpse in a wheelchair. The story revolves around an unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced to take the embalmed body of his recently murdered uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo. Should he succeed in passing his uncle off as alive, Harry Witherspoon stands to inherit $6,000,000. If not, the money goes to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn... or else his uncle's gun-toting ex!
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      • 90th Anniversary Slide Show
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      • The Cake
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      • President
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      • Secretary
      • Treasurer
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    • Advertise with Us
    • Volunteer and Learn >
      • Usher Guidelines
  • ​Kathleen R. Hardigan Memorial Scholarship
    • 2024 Scholarship - Alexandra Richardson
    • 2023 Scholarship - Rishabh Nevatia
    • 2022 Scholarship - Sophia Goodsell
    • 2021 Scholarship - Mahoney Cyr
    • 2021 Scholarship - Brenna Hughes
    • 2021 Scholarship - Cate Lightbody
    • 2018 Scholarship - Riley Mulroy
    • 2017 Scholarship - Mia Straccia
    • 2016 Scholarship - Bridget Connell
    • 2015 Scholarship - Marc Sheehan
    • 2014 Scholarship - Michael McKeon
  • Dan Sheehan Lifetime Achievement Award
  • In Memoriam
    • Bill Bowen 1952-2024
    • Rosemary Mitchell 1944 - 2022
    • Kathleen Hardigan 1970 - 2022
    • Marge Scholz 1930 - 2021
    • Bruce Hainsworth 1923 - 2020
    • Rich Morton 1948 - 2019
    • Gene Guidi 1937 - 2019
    • Parker Chick 1932 - 2018
    • Barbara Pettis 1936 - 2017
    • Roger Pettis 1939 - 2016
    • Rita Rosano 1931 - 2016
    • Ceil Koziol 1922 - 2012
    • Joseph P. Scholz 1926 - 2008
    • Tom Svingen 1935 - 2006
    • Ed Kanter 1931 - 2004
    • Harry Harding 1904 - 2002
    • Sam Greiff 1921 - 2002
    • Sue Bennett Fielding 1928 - 2001
    • Eleanor "Soosie" Harding 1906 - 1999
    • Angelo "Beebe" DeFlaminis 1916 - 1998
    • John F. Ryan, Ph.D 1908-1982
    • John Goss 1887-1963
  • Walpole Footlighters Privacy Policy