LCA Drama Dept. Tames 'Wild, Wild West In A Dress' This Weekend
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WINONA LAKE – Lakeland Christian Academy’s drama department will present “Taming the Wild, Wild West in a Dress” today, Friday and Saturday. This is a comedy western in two acts by Billy St. John. The annual play is part of spirit week and homecoming festivities. It’s hard to be a hero when you’re wearing a dress, but young actor Clarence Rawlins, played by LCA junior Brandon Wildman, manages to do just that in this action-packed western comedy. Rawlins and his theater company head west to Lucky Lady, Nev., where Rawlins discovers that he has misread his distant aunt’s handwritten will. Thinking he was inheriting a profitable saloon where his acting career might flourish, he was actually bequeathed the Lucky Lady Salon, a beauty parlor. Flat broke, Rawlins has no choice but to raid the costume trunk and transform himself into a down-on-her-luck British aristocrat, Lady Claire Rawl, now head hairstylist of the small town’s only salon. His pal and fellow actor, Roger Gaines, played by senior Wesley Hapner, becomes a French stylist, Rogaine. Together with the ladies in the troupe – Heidi Gray, Bobbie Pinz and Nell Clipper – they re-open the beauty salon to great success. But their good luck runs out when, unbeknownst to them, two crooks plot to acquire Rawlins’ salon as part of a scheme to rob the bank next door. Performances are Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets will be sold at the door: adults $6, students $4 and preschoolers are free. LCA is at 1093 S. CR 250E, Winona Lake. For more information, call 574-267-7265.
