To open its third season, The Gold Leaf Theater Company will present James Sherman's farce Beau Jest on Friday, Febraury 24 at the Archibald Ranch Community Church, 13344 S. Archibald Ave. in Ontario, near the southwest corner of Archibald and Chino Avenues. The play will also run on Saturday, Febraury 25 and Sunday the 26th in addition to March 2-4. Tickets will go on sale shortly and the starting times for the shows will be announced soon,according to Danielle Smith, co-founder and co-director of the company.
Other scheduled productions for 2012 include the all female cast Spider Island by Joseph Spalding and two children's productions: Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland and The Mysterious Case of the Missing Ring.
Beau Jest centers around Chicago Jewish elementary school teacher Sarah Goldman (Christy Newby) who is in her mid-twenties during the early 1990s. Her parents Miriam (Leesa Rankins) and Abe (Bernie Sanders) are intent on seeing their youngest daughter married to a nice Jewish boy asap. Unknown to her parents, Sarah is currently seeing the white collar non-Jewish Chris Cringle (Rafael Rawls) who wishes to marry her; however, Sarah decides the best way to get her parents off her back temporarily and immediately is to hire non-Jewish actor Bob (Ray Holdridge) to play her Jewish doctor boyfriend, David, at a family Seder. Joel, played by Christy Vantez, is Sarah's older sister and a thearpist who quickly suspects "David" is not who he is said to be. Along the way, Sarah and Bob just happen to fall in love.
Danielle Smith directs the show and Sarah Pearce assists in bringing the madness, mayhem and kugel to the stage. This delightful comedy explores how parents and children can be become friends as well as remain relatives in this gentle family-oriented play.
For more information on tickets, show times et al, please call 351-398-1105.
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