2008
 

DIRECTOR
Vicky Wurster

PRODUCER
Clara Smith


CHELSEA
COMMUNITY
HOSPITAL
DINING ROOM
 

A hilarious play that pits a father in law against a mother in a comedic succession of ‘squabbles.’ Jerry Sloan is a successful writer of advertising jingles married to an equally successful lawyer. Living with the happy couple, though, is the not so happy Abe Dryfus, Jerry’s crusty, ill-tempered father in law. The situation is made more serious when Jerry’s mother, Mildred, looses her house in a fire and needs a place to stay. Abe and Mildred can’t stand each other! One hilarious confrontation after another occurs until the heart warming finale in which the oldsters discover that, really, each is not so bad.

DINNER
THEATER
March
6th, 7th, 8th

 

Artistic Director

Vicky Wurster
Vicky has been Directing and/or Producing plays with the Players for over 10 years. She has done dinner theater shows

as well as Murder Mysteries. Some of the shows being Love, Sex & the IRS, The Curious Savage, Father of the Bride, Dead and Deader, An Evening of Love and Laughter and many more. Vicky has also been on the CAP Board for many years, and has held offices of Secretary and Vice-President. She has also worked with the summer musicals in the production team positions of Stage Manager, hair & make-up, and lights and sound. Vicky regularly produces and directs charity events to benefit the Chelsea Senior Center at the Comfort Inn Conference Center, and the next musical variety event will be this coming August.

Producer

Clara Smith
Being Mrs. Fisher has been very interesting for Clara, since she is now a grandmother times two and a third grandchild is on the way.  She can relate to the worry of germs from other people, and not wanting to share the few precious moments that one has with the Baby! Character parts are Clara's favorites. She wishes to thank her husband, family, and associates for helping make this show a success.
Jerry Sloan

Brent Lofgren
Brent Lofgren looks forward to hilarious rehearsals resulting in a hilarious show.  Brent's last appearance on the CAP stage was as the cameraman in Dead and Deader, with only one week's rehearsal!  He was also Hysterium  in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and the Long Song Seller in Oliver!  Other appearances in recent eyars have been in Ann Arbor Civic Theater's My One and Only and Saline Area Players' No No Nanette, A Funny Thing...Forum (as Hero that time), and Little Shop of Horrors.  When not on stage, Brent is a research climatology for the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, and a member of Measure for Measure Men's Choral Society. He thanks his father for creative language for cleaning up the script.

a jingle writer
Alice Sloan

Tomi Dres
Tomi is playing Alice, and this is the third Chelsea Area Players show in which she has performed.  Previously she was in both Beauty and the Beast and Pirates of Penzance.  Tomi has also worked with the CAP's Youth Theater by directing That's Showbiz. She also was in the Saline Area Players production of The Wizard Of Oz. When not pretending to be a pregnant lawyer, Tomi teaches fifth grade at South Meadows Elementary.

a lawyer, Jerry's wife
Mildred Sloan

June Weiland
June is delighted to have time to be on stage again, having recently retired from teaching and directing plays at Manchester High School.  She keeps busy editing a video, playing bridge, travelling, and enjoying her first grandchild, Jackson, born last summer. Active on and backstage in community theatre for 37 years, June serves on the CAP Board and most recently produced The Sound of Music. She'd like to thank Vicky and Clara for the chance to "play" with a wonderful cast.

Jerry's mother
Abe Dreyfus

Ric Foytik
Ric’s first role with the Chelsea Players was Luther Billis in South Pacific. Then he played a few serious roles such as Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me Kate, a lawyer in The Night of January 16th and Henry Higgins in the 1982 production of My Fair Lady. But, comedy is what he prefers to do. Jesse in Plaza Suite, Charlie Cowell in The Music Man, Titus in The Curios Savage and he played nine different characters in a comedy called Bullshot Crummond at the Black Sheep Theater. He hasn’t been in a show in ten years but couldn’t help being lured in by such a juicy role as Abe Dryfus. He just wishes he could remember the lines as well as he used to.

retired cab driver, Jerry's father-in-law
Hector Lopez

William Cole
William (or Will) is a WMU Theatre Graduate.  He participated in Manchester High School's drama club, appearing in such productions as You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (1999) and My Cousin Lino (2001).  William also portrayed Nick Bottom in the Kalamazoo Civic's 2006 pruduction of A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Currently Will is taking classes in Washtenaw Community College's video production program, and recently posted his video "Six Rounds to Midnight" on YouTube.

Puerto Rican handyman
Sol Wasserman

David Avery
David's experience with Chelsea Area Player's was multi-fold in My Fair Lady as George the bartender, as well as in the Barbershop-type quartet and a few other supporting roles in the Chorus. But, David's major theatrical time is spent with the Stockbridge The Town Hall Players where he has played Juror no. 2 in Twelve Angry Jurors, the cab driver in Harvey, the minister in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Mr. Bester in Up The Down Staircase,  and was Dr. Emmet in The
Curious Savage
.

retired pharmacist, Abe's neighbor
Mrs. Fisher

Clara Smith

a governess


(left to right) William Cole, Ric Foytik, June Weiland, Brent Lofgren, Tomi Dres, Clara Smith, and Dave Avery

June Weiland and Ric Foytik as the quarreling Mildred and Abe

Tomi Dres, Brent Lofgren, June Weiland, and Ric Foytik at it again!

Rick Foytik as Abe and David Avery as Sol, old buddies playin' cards

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