Dinner Theatre

What you need to know:

• Wednesday through Saturday, doors open at 6:30pm, Performance at 7:30
• Saturday matinee, doors open at 11am,
  Performance at 12:30
• Location: Thorneloe University on the Laurentian Campus
• Early Bird: $65 (includes meal) Until March 27th
• Regular price: $70 (includes meal)

NOTE:

• Seating is done a first reserved , closest seated basis
• For dietary restrictions, please contact Mary Louise at Helvi’s Catering: (705) 692-9081

The Story:

Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, and has invited his best friend, Robert, along too to provide the alibi. It’s foolproof; what could possibly go wrong? Well… suppose Robert turns up not realizing quite why he has been invited. Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers, and consequently determined that Jacqueline will NOT leave for the weekend. Suppose the cook has to pretend to be the mistress and the mistress can’t cook. Suppose everyone’s alibi gets confused with everyone else’s. An evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed.

What you need to know:

• Wednesday through Saturday, door open at 6:30pm, Performance at 7:30
• Saturday matinee, doors open at 11am, Performance at 12:30
• Location: Thorneloe University on the Laurentian Campus
• Early Bird Prices: $65 (includes meal) UNITL JAN 8TH
  Regular Price: $70

NOTE:

• Seating is done a first reserved , closest seated basis
• For dietary restrictions, please contact Mary Louise at Helvi’s Catering: (705) 692-9081

The Story:

When Vivien Bliss, writer of Harlequin Romance novels, comes to spend a romantic weekend with respectably married schoolteacher Edgar Chisholm, she starts a train of events which involves all the classic elements of farce confused identities, disguise, long lost relatives, ambushes, chases and glorious mayhem. How Vivien gets her new novel finished in the face of, behind the back of, in spite of and with the help of an advice columnist, a nosy reporter, a doctor in panty hose, an orphan with a cake and Helga the evil Russian physicist, is the story of this hilarious play.

What you need to know:

• Wednesday through Saturday, door open at 6:30pm, Performance at 7:30
• Saturday matinee, doors open at 11am, Performance at 12:30

Location: Thorneloe University on the Laurentian Campus

Early Bird Prices: $65 (includes meal)  ONLY UNTIL NOV 6TH
Regular price: $70 (includes meal)

NOTE:

• Seating is done a first reserved , closest seated basis
• For dietary restrictions, please contact Mary Louise at Helvi’s Catering: (705) 692-9081

The Story:

If you enjoyed the Sweet Delilah Swim Club two season ago, you will love this one!  Career-driven Suzannah Hayden needs a lot more help on the home front than she’s getting from her husband, Gibby. Lately, nurturing his marriage of twenty-seven years hasn’t been the highest priority for Gibby, but pretty soon he’ll wish it had been. Enter Beth Bailey, Suzannah’s newly hired assistant, a gregarious, highly motivated daughter of the South. To Suzannah’s delight, Beth explodes into the Hayden household and whips it into an organized, well-run machine. This couldn’t have happened at a better time for Suzannah, since her boss, Celia Carmichael, the C.E.O. of Carmichael’s Chocolates, is flying in soon for an important make-or-break business dinner. Gibby grows increasingly wary as Beth insinuates herself into more and more aspects of their lives. In no time, she exceeds her duties as a household assistant and interjects herself into Suzannah’s career. As Suzannah’s dependence on Beth grows and Gibby’s dislike of the woman deepens, Suzannah gives Beth carte blanche to change anything in the household that “will make it run more efficiently.” And the change Beth makes is convincing Suzannah that Gibby must go! When he realizes it’s Suzannah’s career Beth is really after, a newly-determined Gibby sets out to save his marriage aided by Suzannah’s best friend, Margo, a wisecracking and self-deprecating divorcee and her ex-husband, Hank, who is in the midst of his own mid-life crisis. Their effort to stop Beth at any cost sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry just as Suzannah’s boss arrives for that all-important dinner. Whether you’re married, single, rethinking your divorce or currently being controlled by someone up to no good, you’re sure to enjoy this family-friendly, laugh-out-loud comedy!