DISCOVER Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2018 | DISCOVER!
4 | Playbill
At a Glance:
WHAT: “Nana’s Naughty Knickers”
by Katy DiSavino
WHERE: Olde Towne Dinner
Theatre, 121 S Main Street,
Worthing, SD
WHEN: Now through March 18
COST: Dinner Performances $42,
Dessert-Only Matinees, $20
CONTACT: 605-372-4653
ONLINE: www.oldetownetheatre.
org
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER
Menu
Act One
Red Pepper Bisque with Gouda
House Salad (choice of dressing)
Act Two
(choice of one of the following)
Steak with Horseradish Sauce
Chicken with Bacon Chive
Cream Sauce
Herb Crusted Tilapia
PROPS
Zesty Mixed Vegetables
with Basil
Creamy Mashed Potatoes
FINALE
Chocolate Overload Torte
Cast
Silvia Charles - Phyllis Stotz
Vera Walters - Cindy Krekelberg
Bridget Charles - Megan Bakken
Tom O’Grady - Harold Gordon
Mr. Schmidt - Erin Sharp
Heather Van Pree - Renee
Richter
Clair - Rose Rhead
UPS Man - Rob Simmermon
The Voice/Stage manager -
Glenda Kluckman
Steal the show
Olde Towne Dinner Theatre
presents “Nana’s Naughty Knickers”
Spending the summer with grandma.
Sounds like it should be a
pretty sedate summer.
One should think.
But the main character in Olde
Towne Dinner Theatre’s new show is
in for a surprise.
In “Nana’s Naughty Knickers” by
Katy DiSavino, Bridget soon learns
that living with her grandmother in
New York for the summer will be anything
but a calm experience.
But the show is a fun experience
for the audience. Olde Towne Dinner
Theatre in Worthing, SD, has the
show slated to run from now through
March 18.
The show tells the the story of
Bridget, who plans to move in with
her grandmother, Sylvia, the summer
before she starts law school. But
Bridget’s grandmother is up to something
a little risque. She has an illegal
lingerie business that she is running
out of her apartment and she needs
Bridget’s help to keep her from going
to jail or getting evicted.
Cue the laughs.
It is a play that the organizers of the
season knew they had to do.
“Our play reading committee got
together like we normally do and
someone suggested this script and
as we passed it around it was unanimous.
We all wanted to do this show,”
said John J. Boe, the artistic director
at Olde Towne Dinner Theatre. “It’s
funny. It’s charming and, in a weird
way, it’s also really sweet. In the end,
the granddaughter ends up going
along with the scheme because she
loves her grandmother.”
This show is one that is new to the
area. And that is on purpose, according
to Boe.
“It’s one thing we try to do every
season — bring a great show that
people haven’t heard of before into
more light. There’s a ton of shows
out there that are really good that just
don’t have the name recognition, but
when the audience sees them they fall
in love,” Boe said.
The nine actors, including the stage
manager who has a small role, began
rehearsals the second week of January.
They rehearsed five nights a week
before opening the show on Feb. 16.
The actors range in experience from
veterans of the Olde Towne Dinner
Theatre stage to a few who have never
been in a show at the theatre before.
There are performances in the evenings,
which include dinner and then
matinees, which include dessert.
It’s a show that will certainly delight
audiences, according to Boe, and will
have people laughing out loud.
“I think the funniest moment of the
show involved an old lady stuffing a
younger lady’s bra with tennis balls,”
Boe said. “But my favorite moment is
really very sweet. Sylvia is talking to
Bridget trying to convince her to help
and she does a monologue about how
she’s not getting any younger and not
going to be around much longer and
she needs Bridget’s help to do this.
That’s what changes Bridget’s mind.”
“It’s a madcap show, but there are
these sweet moments. When you can
mix genres in there even for a moment
that’s always nice,” Boe said. F
Worthing
| South Dakota