Did you know, the Dodge City Depot Theater Company started out as the Boot Hill Museum Repertory Company back in March of 1984? The first dinner theater production consisted of two one act plays one presented in the Old House Saloon Boot Hill Museum. Sundance was a good example of a new form of play […]
In this performance at the Dodge City Old House Saloon Boot Hill Museum, Count Dracula by playwright Ted Tiller was reworked from Bram Stoker's classic story of the suave vampire, updating the setting to 1930's England, and adding comedic elements. PERFORMANCE DATES: October 27-November 3, 1984 CAST: Sybil Seward - Amy Brax, Hennessey - Doug […]
A celebration of the season in song and dance. PERFORMANCE DATES: December 6-9, 1984 CAST: Jill Austen, Doug Austen, Kim Blattner, Stacy Bamgardner, Amy Brax, Teresa Buchanan, Deborah Eades, Tania Hopkins, Doug Kramer, Callie Lyons, Sara McFarland, Candi Pyle, Mischel Raney, Brian Richardson, Jana Ross, Kent Ross, Roberta Scott, Greg Smith, Julie Stapleton, Brenton Surgenor, […]
Dames at Sea, an Off Broadway hit that brought stardom to Bernadette Peters, the play was a campy show based on the nostalgia of Hollywood musicals of the 1930’s. The story focuses on big-time New York City, into which sweet little Ruby from faraway Hometown, U.S.A. has come to make it big on Broadway. Who […]
This play is set in Sunnyside, Queens in 1965, on the day Pope Paul VI visited New York City. This dark comedy featured a zookeeper who dreams of making it big in Hollywood as a songwriter, his wife Bananas, their son - a GI headed for Vietnam, a trio of nuns, Artie's friend - Billy […]
A celebration of the season. PERFORMANCE DATES: December 1985 CAST and CREW: Doug Austen, Jill Austen, Heather Birney, Amy Brax, Gordon Day, Ken Dean, Tod Demuth, Theresa Eades, Dean Freeman, connie Hudnett, Stephanie McMullough, Sara McFarland, Barry Metcalf, Ray Mettling
This musical comedy was essentially two independent one-act plays, with a book and lyrics by Dick Vosburgh and music by Frank Lazarus. Additionally, songs by other composers were incorporated into the score. The first act - A Day in Hollywood, is a revue of classic Hollywood songs of the 1930s performed by singers and dancers […]
Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. PERFORMANCE DATES: October 30 […]
In his plot for Noises Off, Michael Frayn played on the concept of a play within a play, in this case a parodically dreadful sex comedy titled Nothing On—the type of play in which young girls run about in their underwear, old men drop their trousers, and many doors continually open and shut. Nothing On […]
Baby was a musical with a book by Sybille Pearson, music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. The plot focused on three couples—each newly expecting a child, and each with different but familiar reactions. Liz and Danny were university juniors who had just moved in together. Athletic Pam and her husband, Nick, […]
The scene is set in a resort-style fishing lodge in rural Georgia. This comedy revolves around two of its guests, Charlie Baker and Englishman Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur. Charlie is so pathologically shy that he is unable to speak. As way of explanation, Froggy claims his companion is the native of an exotic country who […]
This musical comedy spoof about the mythical god Jupiter relates the story of his transformation from a "wild and crazy god" into a deity of love and compassion. The setting is ancient Greece in the city of Thebes. The Chorus introduces itself with "Welcome to Greece" and Jupiter arrives, weary of life on Mount Olympus, […]
