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The Green Earth Players community theater group will bring “Those Crazy Ladies in the House on the Corner” to the Palace stage the first two weekends in April.
Director Sue Sandbulte said the idea for the play came to her during a recent road trip.
“I was traveling on I-90 and just got off when I saw the sign for ‘Those Crazy Ladies in the House on the Corner’ and thought, ‘How fun,’” she said.
The nine-member cast
in Patrick Cook’s play also appealed to Sandbulte. “I like to direct small casts,” she said. “It’s a chaotic and busy play — there is so much going on.”
The 90-minute comedy centers on three geriatric sisters, Lydia, Maggie and Dora (played by Shannan Baack, DJ Luethje and Terri Ebert respectively) and their doctor (Jim Harsma) who attempts to lower the sisters’ blood pressure through more activity.
He convinces his nurse, Jean Mitchell (Colette Hansen), to move into the sisters’ house on the corner.
Mitchell, however, has a secret, which she tries to hide as the women work to reunite Jean with her boyfriend, Calvin Murphy (Gordie Hansen).
Soon Jean has the sisters making party plans, pulling pranks and wearing jogging suits in attempts to race each other around the house on the corner.
Their fun is interrupted by Lydia’s son (Dean Luethje) who shows up and tells the sisters he wants to sell the house.
Rounding out the cast are Jessie (Denise Deitchman) and Blue (Tyler Johnson), the grocery boy.
Sandbulte adds her own special touch to the play with a “squirrelly” intermission scene that keeps the energy and laughs transitioning into the second act of the play.
Sandbulte tapped her grandchildren (Lauren and Madison Peters) and her neighbor’s children (Sophia, Rory and Isabella Nolz) to play the five squirrels for the intermission.
“It’s really funny,” Sandbulte said.
The play takes place Friday-Sunday, April 1-3, and Thursday-Sunday, April 7-10.
Sunday performances are at 2 p.m. and the others begin at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $7 for students and $14 for adults and can be purchased by calling the Palace Box Office, 507-283-4399, or online at palacetheatre.us.