Community Playhouse brings gender-bender comedy to Barrow

5/1/2023

"Leading Ladies" is no drag... well... maybe it is for a few of the actors in this comedy where the characters flip flop gender roles throughout the performance.

The Ken Ludwig play has a very Pennsylvania premise - taking place mostly in York. A production of the Oil City-based Community Playhouse Inc., the show is being directed by venerable local actor Bill Trimble and produced by Deb Mitchell. It features a small cast full of well-known favorites - Gary Dittman, Stephen Tieg, Josh Devlin, Lisa Harry, Jim Nash, Joyce Pittman, Daniel Newberry and Tracy Brown.

The show follows a scheme by two low-level English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, who find themselves performing in Moose Lodges in Amish country.

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They learn of a rich old lady, near death, about to leave her fortune to her two long-lost nephews and they hatch a plan to impersonate them and swindle the inheritance. Only one problem - the nephews are actually nieces.

And that's where the real fun (and many intense costume changes) begin.

It opens Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on the Barrow's main stage. There will also be performances at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased at the Barrow box office from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, by calling 814-437-3440, or online at https://barrowtheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket...

Community Playhouse, Inc. is in the midst of an extensive multi-year project with the Colonel Drake Cultural Alliance to renovate the old Lyric Theatre in Oil City. In the meantime, the Community Playhouse players have been performing at different locations throughout the area over years and bring this play to Franklin for a one weekend run.