NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

5/23/2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES- The cast for the NSU Dinner Theatre production of "Little Mary Sunshine" has been announced by director Dr. Jack Wann.

"Little Mary Sunshine," which will run June 14-22 on the stage of the A.A. Fredericks Auditorium, is a delightful musical spoof of all the old operettas. The play is complete with noble Forest Rangers instead of the Mounties of Rose Marie, eternally optimistic heroines, stalwart heroes and a whole assortment of stock early vintage musical theatre types.

The show, written by Rick Besoyan, made a star of Eileen Brennan and was called "a devastatingly comic jab at the operettas of the 1920's" and "one of the greatest "sleepers in musical theatre history." It was also one of Off-Broadway's longest running musicals.

Members of the cast are Heather Conrad of Natchitoches as Little Mary, James Palmer of Mansfield as "Big Jim" Warington, Kerry Lambert of Prarieville as Billy Jester and Robin Rose of Natchitoches as Nancy Twinkle.

The cast also includes Dale Higginbotham of Natchitoches as Oscar Fairfax, Kyle Lemaire of Abbeville as Chief Brown Bear, Kristin Jones of Vero Beach, Fla., as Ernestine, Kelly Airhart of Natchitoches as Mabel, Julia Lambert of Prairieville as Henrietta and Annie Fackler of Lafayette as Fleetfoot and Maud.

Also in the cast are Bro. Michael David Elvestrom of Natchitoches as Yellow Feather and Tex, Kimberly Allen of Natchitoches as Blanche, D'Nea Tyler of Natchitoches as Cora, Bruston Manuel of Kinder of Pete, John Snow of Mansfield as Slim and Wanetah Walmsley of Leesville as Gwendolyn.

Tickets are $16.50 apiece which includes dinner and the show. For more information, call (318) 357-6891.

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