Written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope & Jamie Wooten

Directed by Greg Maraio

Co-Produced with Company One

Performed December 4-19, 2009

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre

CAST

Maureen Adduci as Geneva Musgrave

Jackie Davis as Rhonda Lynn Lampley

Barbara Douglass as Frankie Dubberly

Terrence P. Haddad as John Curtis Buntner

Marc Harpin as Justin Waverly

Rory Kulz as Raynerd Chisolm

Kara Manson as GJ Dubberly

Mary Neiderkorn as Patsy Price

Heather Peterson as Honey Raye Futrelle

Carrie Ann Quinn as Twink Futrelle

Dave Sanfacon as Dub Dubberly

CREW

Production Stage Manager: Deidre Benson

Set Design: Greg Maraio & Jared Fennelly

Lighting Design: Kirsten Opstad

Costume Design: Greg Maraio

Sound Design: Greg Maraio

Graphic Design: Jared Fennelly

CHRISTMAS BELLES

The Boston Globe

“If ‘Christmas Belles’’ were a gift, it would be a necktie so loud and garish that you’d be tempted to discard it the moment you unwrapped it. But bit by bit, almost against your will, you’d start to develop a sneaking affection for it, and before you knew it you’d have the damn thing around your neck.”

Theatre Mirror

“CHRISTMAS BELLES may well be perfect holiday fare for those female gift-shoppers craving rowdy, non-stop laughs before trudging on to Cosco, BJ’s and Wal-Mart”

Boston Herald

“If the actors weren't standing so close, you'd swear you were in front of the TV.”

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It’s Christmas-time in the small town of Fayro, Texas, and the Futrelle Sisters — Frankie, Twink and Honey Raye — are not exactly in a festive mood. A cranky Frankie is weeks overdue with her second set of twins. Twink, recently jilted and bitter about it, is in jail for inadvertently burning down half the town. And hot-flash-suffering Honey Raye is desperately trying to keep the Tabernacle of the Lamb’s Christmas Program from spiraling into chaos. But things are not looking too promising: Miss Geneva, the ousted director of the previous twenty-seven productions, is ruthless in her attempts to take over the show. The celebrity guest Santa Claus — played by Frankie’s long-suffering husband, Dub — is passing a kidney stone. One of the shepherds refuses to watch over his flock by night without pulling his little red wagon behind him. And the entire cast is dropping like flies due to food poisoning from the Band Boosters’ Pancake Supper. And when Frankie lets slip a family secret that has been carefully guarded for decades, all hope for a successful Christmas pro-gram seems lost, even with an Elvis impersonator at the manger. But in true Futrelle fashion, the feuding sisters find a way to pull together in order to present a Christmas program the citizens of Fayro will never forget. Their hilarious holiday journey through a misadventure-filled Christmas Eve is guaranteed to bring joy to your world!

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