Milton High School Drama is proud to announce their spring production of the comedy SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY, written by Jessie Jones, Jamie Wooten and Nicholas Hope. Production dates are Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29 at 7 PM, and Sunday, April 30 at 2 PM. All performances are at the Jon C Platts Performing Arts Center located in Milton High School, 114 W High Street, Milton, WI. Tickets are general admission and sold only at the door. Adults $5, Students and Seniors $4.
The Futrelle Sisters – Frankie, Twink, Honey Raye and Rhonda Lynn – are in trouble again. This time, the problem is bigger than ever: their beloved hometown, Fayro, Texas, is in danger of disappearing and it’s up to the sisters to save it from extinction. Ever since the Super SmartMart and the rendering plant closed, folks have been leaving Fayro in droves, but Honey Raye, with a major assist from her former nemesis, Geneva Musgrave, has come up with a possible solution. It seems a salsa-manufacturing factory is looking to relocate and a company representative is headed to Fayro on a scouting mission. Honey Raye, as the president of the Chamber of Commerce, makes promises that is not to be believed in order to woo the rep to choose Fayro. In fact, Honey Raye has told them that on the very weekend of the rep’s visit, the town just happens to be having their biggest celebration of the year: ‘Fayro Days’, which includes a craft show, a pet costume parade, a beauty pageant and a huge Civil War battle reenactment. So now it’s up to the citizens of Fayro to quickly make her promises a reality. The biggest hurdle to impressing the salsa representative is staging a Civil War battle reenactment with only fifteen participants.
Added to this is the dilemma of Twink being so desperate to get married that she’s practically dragging the unwilling groom, Deputy John Curtis Buntner, to the altar. But this pales next to the financial problems the preacher and his wife are having – unless you don’t consider gambling away your mobile home a problem.
Frankie, however, seems to have it worst of all, what with her husband, Dub, going through a major mid-life crisis at the same time her five-year-old twins are literally tearing up the town. And unfortunately for all of them, the ‘meanest woman in twelve counties’, Dub’s wicked, old Aunt Iney, is on her way for a visit. Iney’s arrival in Fayro is definitely cause for alarm for the sisters; but it’s nothing compared to their panic when the old girl drops dead in the Dubberly home just before the salsa rep shows up. But how the Futrelle sisters and the other citizens of Fayro, including sweet, simple, Raynerd Chisum, pull together and save their town is a testament to Southern strength and ingenuity – and a recipe for total hilarity.
A laugh-out-loud farce and a stand-alone play in its own right, SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY is the third play in the trilogy that began with DEARLY BELOVED (Performed at MHS in 2010) and continued with CHRISTMAS BELLES (MHS 2011). SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY has a cast of 13 students and includes that many, again, in supporting roles backstage. It is directed and produced by long time MHS director Michael Dorn.
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY is produced through a special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY.
