The Howard Payne University Theatre Department will open their spring production this Thursday with a play entitled “Stealing Home” by Pat Cook.
It is set to run Thursday, February 28th, Friday, March 1st, and Saturday, March 2nd at 7:30 PM each night and Sunday, March 3rd at 2:30 PM at the HPU Theatre. Tickets will cost $8.00 for adults, $5.00 for students and children and free to all HPU faculty, staff, and students.
Cast members for the HPU production include Jarrod White as Cecil, Tucker Hull as Pug, Hannah Jansen as Beulah, Ben Mohundro as Doughberg, Alex Taliaferro as Joan, Brittany Martin as Gretchen, Gabi Guest as Imogene, Dorie Walton as Zelda, Jared Russell as Hunter, Kelsan Wolverton as Sister Angelina, and Phoenix Solis as Phoebe Wallenstein.“Stealing Home” will also be the first production of the Christian University Theatre Festival hosted by HPU March 4-6 with a performance at 7:30 PM on Monday, March 4th.
Click the photo gallery below for a photo gallery of the play from a recent rehearsal.
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Play Synopsis –
“You can’t judge a book by its cover!” Cecil tells Officer Doughberg as he tries to explain why he and his partner, Pug, were caught in a funeral home in the middle of the night. He figures to confuse the policeman with fast talk and mumbo jumbo. Actually, they were there to heist a few trinkets, which is what Doughberg figured all along. What nobody figured on was Beulah Meadows, the owner of the place, showing up and recognizing Cecil as her long-lost son, Jimmy Meadows, who vanished from an amusement park some 25 years earlier. This, of course, comes as a tragic shock to Beulah’s daughters, who were just about to sell the funeral home for quite a bundle. “We’ll have to get rid of him,” intones Gretchen, the oldest daughter, “one way or another.” Before you know it, the place is overrun with other-worldly sisters, whining lawyers, policemen, psychiatrists and nuns! Is Cecil really there to help out his would-be mother? Or is he sticking around because he has a crush on Joan, the mortician? And is Cecil really Beulah’s long-lost son? Find out in this frantic farce when two con men set out to lift a few pieces of silverware and end up “Stealing Home.”
