TheCurtain Call Society at Cleveland State Community College will present the theater production of Southern Fried Nuptials on Thursday, Nov. 5 and Friday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. and two performances on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 2:30 and 7 p.m. Performances are in the George R. Johnson Cultural Heritage Center at Cleveland State. Admission is free to everyone for these performances.
Directed by Holly Shiveley, Cleveland State Associate Professor of Communications, and written by playwrights Nate Eppler and J. Dietz Osborne, this story is a bighearted comedy about family – Southern-style. It is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Playscripts www.concordtheatricals.com.
Harlene Frye is going to marry her childhood sweetheart this weekend, assuming the typical Frye family hijinks don’t derail the wedding! Harlene and Attie’s future together is threatened when the bride-to-be’s awful ex-flame shows up with information she doesn’t want her fiancé to find out. And Harlene’s not the only Frye keeping secrets: Sammy Jo refuses to tell her family she’s moving even though all her bags are already packed. As if that isn’t enough, Dewey can’t figure out why people keep on asking him to give his sister away, and busybody Ozella Meeks has somehow ended up as the wedding coordinator. Will the Fryes be able to get Harlene down the aisle in one piece?
“This production is the sequel to Southern Fried Funeral, which our group presented earlier this spring,” Shiveley said. “We thoroughly enjoyed bringing those characters and their story to life, and the response from our audience was incredibly encouraging. When we learned that the story continued with a sequel, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to return to this wonderfully entertaining world.”
For more information about the Curtain Call Society or Southern Fried Nuptials, contact Holly Shiveley at 423-473-2418 or holly.shiveley@cscctn.edu.