Curtain Up On 
The Red Barn Players 
2010 Season

Welcome to the Red Barn Players' 2010 Season! 

Sara Hastings is an unmarried lawyer in her mid-thirties, much too busy to get involved in any romance. Her Aunt Martha has decided to take matters into her own hands and find Sara a husband. Unfortunately, Aunt Martha’s method of matchmaking is extremely unconventional, and looks a lot like kidnapping. The prospective groom is Brandon Cates, a young man who handles Aunt Martha's finances. The fact that Brandon is already engaged to be married, does not deter Aunt Martha. The journey to the altar has never been quite so entertaining.

This spoof of English mysteries finds Miss Maple, a society dowager noted for her imaginative weekend parties, awaiting a group of detective writers invited to eerie Ravenswood Manor, where they are to assume the personalities of their fictional characters. She's arranged all sorts of scary, amusing incidents. Then a real murder takes place and the guests realize they're all marked for death. When they're not busy tripping over the clues, the zany sleuths trip over one another. It's a spiny mystery with a generous injection of wild humor. The Players are thrilled to be reprising this delightful comedy last produced at the Barn in 1983.

Joey Stoshack is the Strike Out King of Louisville, Kentucky Little League Baseball. But his problems get bigger and dangerous when he finds Honus Wagner’s T-206 baseball card – the most valuable card in the world. The card could help his mother and maybe get his parents back together – but does the card really belong to him? As he struggles to decide the right thing to do, the card’s special power brings Honus Wagner into Joey’s life. Together they travel back in time where they get a chance to play in the 1909 World Series against Ty Cobb. A surprise ending sets everything right.

It's a snowy December evening in 1942 and the colorful cast and crew of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade are trying to broadcast their weekly radio show. The world is at war and pop music means "Strike Up the Band" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" The harassed producer copes with a drunken lead singer, a delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mike, and a second banana who dreams of singing the big ballad. In spite of a flurry of mishaps, the show does go on, in an evening of music, nostalgia and Christmas cheer for the whole family. This wonderfully poignant show is the second Barn reprisal of the season, having had a successful run on our stage in 1989.