Forever Plaid is an off-Broadway musical comedy written by Stuart Ross in New York in 1990 and now performed internationally. The critically acclaimed show is an affectionate revue of the close-harmony “guy groups” (think The Four Aces or The Four Freshmen) that reached the height of their popularity during the 1950s. Personifying the clean-cut genre, this quartet of high-school chums’ earnest dreams of recording an album ended in death (literally and indeed, symbolically) in a collision with a bus filled with Catholic schoolgirls on their way to see the Beatles’ American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The play begins with the Plaids returning from the afterlife for one final chance at musical glory. The songs they sing during the course of the musical include: “Three Coins in the Fountain,” “Gotta Be This or That,” “Moments to Remember,” “No, Not Much,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Perfidia,” “Heart and Soul,” “Lady of Spain,” “Scotland the Brave,” “Shangri-La,” “Rags to Riches,” and “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing.”

PERFORMANCE DATES: December 5-22, 2002

CAST:  Jinx – Kyle Hager, Francis – Jason Hart, Sparky – Joe Walker, Smudge – Alan Stukenholtz

ORCHESTRA/BAND: Keyboard – Sara McFarland, Bass – Jim Johnson

CREW: Director – Connie Penick, Stage Manager – Kristina Mortimer, Stage Manager/Properties Master – Sarah Simpson, Set Design – Dave Wetmore, Jim Gilman, M.J. Straight, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Sound Design – Alan Stukenholtz, Light Design/Light Board Operator – Matt Duesing, Properties Master – Marcia McVay, Sound Board Operator – Christopher Pyle

MENU: Chicken noodle soup, turkey and corn dressing, sweet potato bake, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, banana muffin, hot butter rum cheesecake.  Catering provided by Linda Bethke, Andrea Bethke, Pete Bethke, Andrew Mortimer, Kathy Morgan, Faye Trent, Milly White, Deb AIstrup, Denis Ann Bamberger, Jacob Busch, Sharon Thompson, Barb Duesing, Claudia Pyle, Wendy Nelson, Carol Klein, Dee Dee Royle, Ryan Royle.

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