they're alive!!! part 1

How totally delightful!!!

While cruising fb for something to do, I found a post from the Richmond Hill Community Theatre about an upcoming musical to be performed in Hinesville, at Fort Stewart.

Really, truly???

A new troupe and a new venue at a troop site?

(A little word play with puns for your funny bone!)

Then I read the poster more carefully.

"The Enchanted Bookshop Musical" would be performed this weekend in Rincon!!!

At the Hive Repertory Theatre!!!

Alrighty then - I knew where that was!

Hmm, "was", indeed.

They had moved to a new building, which was good, as it was much easier to locate.

Moreover, it was a fairly straight shot from my house, through Garden City and Port Wentworth, and would only require 35 minutes of travel time.

That's about the same amount of drive time for me to get southside or downtown!

Alrighty then!

(smile!)

 

I even snagged a front row seat!

Magnificent!

So, just what was it all about?

Here's the scoop! 

Margie, the bookshop owner (that's her, in pink), and her amazing Siamese cat, Bombalurina, are in danger of having to leave "A Likely Story" due to declining sales.

The woman in the black and white top is Fingers, one of two thieves who break into the bookshop to retrieve a vegetable cookbook - left earlier by an accomplice - that conceals a stolen diamond necklace.

Those five, plus a cop, a mom and her daughter, are all real.

The other dozen or so people in the play are all fictional characters from the books, brought to life by the Book Fairy, who took pity on them as their books had not been read in so long.

Isn't that a gorgeous costume she has?

(The actress designed it all herself, too! In fact, all the people were in charge of their own outfits.)

The rules are simple: the characters can "live" outside their books as long as no one sees them and they only come out at night.

Simple enough, right?

But when the thieves threaten Margie, "Sherlock Holmes" and "Robin Hood" conspire with Dorothy and Toto and Polyanna and Heidi and Tom Sawyer to save the shop at any price, even if it means revealing themselves to the bad guys... which would result in the fictional characters being relegated to their books evermore.

Whatever shall they do???

Well, come on out and discover the answer, just as I did on this stormy afternoon!

Such delightful songs throughout the play!!!

I had quite a lovely chat with Brian Keith "Sherlock" Rich, and Ashlie "Fingers" Alvey, too.

But why does it seem they're all looking at me here?

That's because they are!!!

Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood, Tom Sawyer!

Dorothy Gale and her little dog, too!

Heidi and Polyanna, Bombalurina the Cat!

They're all sitting on the stage, looking right...

and looking right at me!

Divinely happy I was!!!

Yes, I'll be back here for more plays by both troupes!

(smile!)